Gimmito's 450 L-Shaped Display

[gimmito]

I hooked up the jbj heater w/controller (nice big led reading), dialed in the H&S A150 (it started making some nice foam within a few hours), & threw some live rock in the drain section to jump start the cycling.

 

[Dante_JoseCuerv]

Looks pretty spiffy

 

[ecupcar]

Sic build, not sure I could keep all that strait at one time!

 

[gimmito]

Sic build, not sure I could keep all that strait at one time!

I had some help. I took a peg board and drilled out 7/16" holes and used it as a template.

 

[drdoolittle]

Jim, dude.. is that the A250?? that sump must be HUGE! it looks miniturized inside that sump and the frag rack looks awesome! I might have to copy it.. the only advice i have is to add some flow on the bottom of the frag rack, or it'll be a dirt trap..

 

[gimmito]

Jim, dude.. is that the A250?? that sump must be HUGE! it looks miniturized inside that sump and the frag rack looks awesome! I might have to copy it.. the only advice i have is to add some flow on the bottom of the frag rack, or it'll be a dirt trap..

What's up Ed. Yah, that's the H&S A 250 I got from you. It does look a little small in the 100 gal sump doesn't it ?
I'm going to throw a ecotech mp40 in the frag tank to avoid any detritus build up.

Jim

 

[Ketchup]

very nice frag tank... gimme a nice idea if i ever going to do 1

 

[gimmito]

Thanks Ketchup.

 

[gimmito]

Update on the sump for the frag tank:

I added some chaeto & gracialla (Big thanks Christina), fuge light, & cleaned up the cords via corrugated tubing.

 

[gimmito]

One 1 1/4" elbow and small stick of pipe did wonders to quite the skimmer and knock down the salt creep.

 

[gimmito]

I got a chance to finish plumbing the drains.

 

[gimmito]

...and plumbed the fuge.

 

[gimmito]

Finished the plumbing of the return pump to the fuge (bottom 1 1/2" pipe reduced to 1") and the drain from the fuge (1" pipe w/blue ball valve). I'll probably drain it to the right front of the tank, where I'm sure there will be a line of fish waiting for a snack.

Next is to finish plumbing the returns into the tank and I'll be done w/the plumbing. I took apart the manifold I previously made. I'm leaning towards 2 returns into 2 wavy seas.

 

[gimmito]

I finally got around to finishing the plumbing.

 

[gimmito]

Pic of left rear return. The plumbing goes from 1 1/2" to 1" omni flex nozzles. This is most likely a temporary return setup so I can do a water test. I plan on getting a couple of vertex mocean 3500's down the line.

 

[gimmito]

Pic of right rear return...please excuse the dirty acrylic...too tired to clean it.

Again, plumbing goes from 1 1/2" to 1" omni flex nozzles. I'm thinking about building a couple of "wet boxes" (6x6x16) for tunze streams and placing them along the length of the overflows and siliconing them in. The idea is to hide as much plumbing as possible via the rockscaping. Any thoughts ?

 

[gimmito]

Gen finished my drip tray. I originally was going to use filter socks, but I saw Dan Riggle's tank that used a drip tray w/filter floss. I glued ribs w/Weldon 16 and taped them w/blue painters tape. Next, I need to drill out some holes for water flow.

 

[gimmito]

Gen also made me 2 wetboxes. These will be attached via suction cups and hidden in the rockwork. I plan on using 2 Tunze 6205's in each box pointing through the canyon and especially in dead spots. There are removable lids to access the pumps for cleaning and keep critters out.

 

[abaralnek]

looking awesome,nice job!!

 

[gimmito]

Thanks !