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Love the ghetto fab stuff!
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atwinparadox2
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this thread just keeps getting better, a water bottle for a mini chiller...that's classic!
jbird69
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Frank
Yep, its a joint compound bucket:bum: If you can figure out the archive search feature, I did a little build thread on it here. I couldnt keep the splashing under control so I bagged it. It would work really well in a larger scale if your bucket dumped on a sloping raceway. Be cool for a big frag tank.
HUNTINREDNECK
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those car batteries will run my sump pump for 24 to 48 hours
not bad hu
lol
not bad hu
lol
Skeptic_07
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So I was cleaning out this old 29g that I'm hopeing will make a good sump, it was filled with my old junk, when I uncovered this little gem
A rio pump with an extra ghetto custom outlet for wider flow.. its actually made from the output of my old HOT magnum canister which I used on my fw tank ages ago, some epoxy and a ziptie. This was on my very first tank from 07 I tried plugging it in but it no longer works
A rio pump with an extra ghetto custom outlet for wider flow.. its actually made from the output of my old HOT magnum canister which I used on my fw tank ages ago, some epoxy and a ziptie. This was on my very first tank from 07 I tried plugging it in but it no longer works
insane
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Excellent. I had searched for that thread but I couldn't get anything to come up no matter what words I used. Had you seen this style before?
The one my sis has works just like yours. The dump tray is a little shorter than yours and is elongated (about 20" or so) and tapers down to the end that dumps the water. Behind the deep end is a seperate chamber used to hold weights to keep it in balance depending on how much algae was growing on the screen in the tray(turf scrubber). The weights were just PVC pipe with caps glued on the end and they just roll around in there when it is in motion. Not sure what they had in them but she has 3 or 4 different sizes of the weights. A sponge is placed under the deep end of the dump tray to keep it from going thud when it returns to home and it also lets you limit the travel of the dump tray. The entire thing is mounted inside of an acrylic box with a chute on the bottom at one end where the water would dump. The chute is adjustable up and down to go below the water line. It has two PC's w/reflector & a fan mounted in the lid of the main box. They also used a small internal overflow skimmer that hangs on the rim of the tank for a small mag drive that fills the scrubber. It dumps probably 4 to 5 gallons about every 20 to 30 seconds.
I only have 3 bad pics of the outside of it. Will get more (bad pics and interior shots + video of it in action) but she lives 90 miles away. I took these when I was putting in her new light and CPR 1600gph overflow after I put up the 240' of PVC privacy fence on a hilly wooded lot for her. Then I built her 7 way over the top return manifold during that 2 week "visit". She loves her little brother! This is a 180g tank.
The screen laying on top of the tank in the last pic was used to temporarily shade the corals from her new three 400w 20k DE's +two T5s. Old fixture has two 400w SE + a 250W SE + two Actinic PCs and year old bulbs. All of her old ghetto light supports are now gone.
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Sump Material
Sump Material
In true fashion I am looking for a temporary alternative to a tank for a sump for now 75 G mixed reef build.
I will be adding a tank as soon as I can, but right now I want to get something up quick yet bulletproof.
Thinking about Rubbermaid or Sterlite or even a large bucket.
I need to ask the lfs, they hage very sturdy white plastic containers.
Whatever I use needs to be at least 12 inches tall to accomodate the skimmer output of my Aqua C Urchin.
Any ideas would be helpful.
Sump Material
In true fashion I am looking for a temporary alternative to a tank for a sump for now 75 G mixed reef build.
I will be adding a tank as soon as I can, but right now I want to get something up quick yet bulletproof.
Thinking about Rubbermaid or Sterlite or even a large bucket.
I need to ask the lfs, they hage very sturdy white plastic containers.
Whatever I use needs to be at least 12 inches tall to accomodate the skimmer output of my Aqua C Urchin.
Any ideas would be helpful.
chrismunn
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my current actinic light hood. its the origional bio cube hood front cut off rom the rest of the hood now with one of the origional PC's mounted in it. i wanted the actinic lighting but had to keep it out of the way of the MH while keeping in mind that there is no REAL hood to cover up any ofthe stray light or uglyness! :lol:
