Ghetto Rig

[jbird69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14890173#post14890173 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by atwinparadox2
DIY wavebox FTW!!!! Ghetto, yes, but very creative! Nice job!

Thanks for the interest!

I did a build thread on it a few months ago. It's back there somewhere.
I took it out of operation almost as quick as I put it in. It was just too splashy and noisy. I put it on the back burner and never got back to it. There is a lot of potential in this design. The concept is older than rock underwear. Just a counter weighted tip bucket. If you could soften the dump and the return action, and increase the volumn, youd really have something...

 

[waxy]

Re: Ghetto Rig

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14885778#post14885778 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by username in use
All right folks, we all see the really nicely done DIY projects on here, but I want to see everyones "ghetto rigs", because after all, we have all made one or two. So post em up.

Haha, I gave you that Idea!

Where's the thread where it all started?

 

[jbird69]

Most every thing I have is ghetto.LOL My stand and canopy (and my livingroom entertainment center) are built out of prefinished hardwood flooring leftover from jobs. My MH reflector is just strategically bent mirrored aluminum. My T6 lighting is suspended in the canopy with bailing wire, I built my own external overflow (its the real deal tho,,,pretty tight) heres a pic of a quick, ghetto frag rack...

 

[username in use]

hey man, that looks pretty pro, I dont know if you can post that here hahahaha.

 

[jbird69]

Great idea for a topic username. This is a thread I will surely follow. There are some diys out there that I either just plain old missed or didnt click on, or were before my time. Id love to see a ton of em all consolidated in one thread. This may be very useful.
Ghetto & DIY are something I understand well in this complicated world of reef keeping!

 

[GROWSZOAS]

coat hanger center brace

 

[username in use]

That looks like it may not be your first coat hanger center brace.

 

[hobogato]

pvc carbon/phosban reactor. a circle of acrylic, hosebarb, three caps and a short piece of pipe. i used 4" diameter pvc.

parts

acrylic disk with holes superglued to bottom of pipe

assembled - obviously for in-sump use only - water just pours out the top and down the sides. i ran it with a mj 900.

 

[jbird69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14894131#post14894131 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hobogato
pvc carbon/phosban reactor. a circle of acrylic, hosebarb, three caps and a short piece of pipe. i used 4" diameter pvc.

parts

acrylic disk with holes superglued to bottom of pipe

assembled - obviously for in-sump use only - water just pours out the top and down the sides. i ran it with a mj 900.

Do you have carbon and phosban together in there? Where is the peice with the holy acrylic disc on the assembled unit?
Just looking at what you did here is openning a new door in my brain!
This is a hot DIY!

 

[Discustopia]

Ok, the coat hanger brace is just plain scary!
hopefully it's nothing more than a sump filled halfway now.

I am totaly digging that GFO reactor, Fantastically simple, just a little work drilling the holes.

Here's my lighting upgrade I did for a buddy - Literally by hand.
I smacked the hammertone over the edge of a board from a wooden pallet with the base of my hand. Only tools were tin snips, a drill, and a hand riveter.

 

[jbird69]

ok. I see it now. Its on the bottom of the pipe (just like you spelled out LOL.) so the media is fully contained within the pipe and remaines susupended above the hosebarb. Sweet

 

[hobogato]

you can run both, but the carbon is exhausted much sooner than the phosban. you could probably do another acrylic disk that fits into the pipe to separate them and put the carbon in the top so it could be changed more often than the gfo. i only run carbon now and have since made a completely acrylic one (like these) that doesnt have to be in the sump

here is a small single beckett skimmer i made with some scraps i had lying around

 

[jbird69]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14894668#post14894668 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hobogato
you can run both, but the carbon is exhausted much sooner than the phosban. you could probably do another acrylic disk that fits into the pipe to separate them and put the carbon in the top so it could be changed more often than the gfo. i only run carbon now and have since made a completely acrylic one (like these) that doesnt have to be in the sump

here is a small single beckett skimmer i made with some scraps i had lying around

Okay. You must now remove yourself from the ghetto category Verry nice! Awesome stained glass btw.

 

[jbird69]

one more Q... Are you buying the acrylic cylinders or making them?

 

[username in use]

i like the DIY reactor, very good idea, I may have to make a couple of these myself, as for the skimmer, that is way to nice to have in this thread.

 

[Agu]

Water bottle skimmer for a nano tank,

A couple days worth of skimmate,

 

[Neptangelo]

Now that is truly ghetto! Well done......

 

[exoticaquatix]

awesome gear guys! makes me think back to the DIY kalk reactor that nuked my tank

hobogato, im afraid you dont quite get the idea of this thread. haha

-nick

 

[stripevt]

There has to be more out there.... This makes me feel not so bad with the stuff I have done. ha

 

[yukonblizzard]

Great Ghetto Rigs everybody!!

Here is my ghetto rig: A fifty gallon Frag tub with a old bucket as a surge device

The surge in action. It goes off every 25 seconds.

Inside the surge bucket: I used a toilet ball float to pull the flap once the water reaches a certain height.