JapanReef - 450 gallon In-Wall system
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Well only 30" high so you can still clean all sides. A tank that size would hold 900 gallons so a nice size to keep anything. Maybe a small shark and a blue-spotted stingray amongst anything. I keep wandering around the house trying to find a place to put it.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7777368#post7777368 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dougie
u'll need a wetsuit and snorkel to clean a 6ft deep tank.
what would like to keep in a tank that deep??
jnarowe
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7778509#post7778509 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NexDog
Well only 30" high so you can still clean all sides. A tank that size would hold 900 gallons so a nice size to keep anything. Maybe a small shark and a blue-spotted stingray amongst anything. I keep wandering around the house trying to find a place to put it.
Build on! :lol: Mine is 96 x 60 x 35h but I have the room. Most people living in Japan do not have that much room, right??
jnarowe
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I'll try to in the next couple of days. I have a packed day tomorrow with my kid at the Dojo, and then I am picking up a fish at the LFS to take about 50 mi. to a Puget Sound Aquarium Society meeting and hand it off to another reefer.
I am totally spent from fishing and never really recoverd from my trip to NY...so much to do too: I have to install new sumps, mod my skimmer, finish installing the Vortech drivers, build a multi-media reactor, mod my DC4HDs with circuit breaker switches, set up my snail incubator, build the viewing side bar....
I am totally spent from fishing and never really recoverd from my trip to NY...so much to do too: I have to install new sumps, mod my skimmer, finish installing the Vortech drivers, build a multi-media reactor, mod my DC4HDs with circuit breaker switches, set up my snail incubator, build the viewing side bar....
Well, that's the morning scheduled so maybe do the pics in the afternoon?
By the way, houses in Japan are generally smaller but more so in the big cities. Down here in the rural south housing and land costs aren't much different to anywhere else. Here is a plan of my bottom floor. It isn't totally correct as we extended the dining room out a bit after this was made:
Bottom left (3) is my office with the tank in the wall. In hindsight this was a mistake. Because I have this lovely lounge and do all my work sat in there on the laptop and spend maybe an hour or two in the office. Both closets on the right face into the office. What I could do is take down the wall in the office where the tank is and put a monster tank where the closets are opening into the tatami section of the lounge. The current tank I would put against the wall and use as a monster frag tank.
Few issues though. I still need an office and we need the closet space. On that wall of the tatami section of the wall we have this tree that was skinned, split in half and varnished at great expense. I took these just before we moved in:
Left side (view from lounge entrance):
Right side:
And in between them we have this huge Lassen seriagraph. So those items would need to be moved (wife wouldn't be happy). I would need to build an extension and the once it can really be done is out the side of the kitchen/dining room.
So together with the tank, it would be pie-in-the-sky costly. Might be able to consider it in 3 years or maybe 5.
By the way, houses in Japan are generally smaller but more so in the big cities. Down here in the rural south housing and land costs aren't much different to anywhere else. Here is a plan of my bottom floor. It isn't totally correct as we extended the dining room out a bit after this was made:
Bottom left (3) is my office with the tank in the wall. In hindsight this was a mistake. Because I have this lovely lounge and do all my work sat in there on the laptop and spend maybe an hour or two in the office. Both closets on the right face into the office. What I could do is take down the wall in the office where the tank is and put a monster tank where the closets are opening into the tatami section of the lounge. The current tank I would put against the wall and use as a monster frag tank.
Few issues though. I still need an office and we need the closet space. On that wall of the tatami section of the wall we have this tree that was skinned, split in half and varnished at great expense. I took these just before we moved in:
Left side (view from lounge entrance):
Right side:
And in between them we have this huge Lassen seriagraph. So those items would need to be moved (wife wouldn't be happy). I would need to build an extension and the once it can really be done is out the side of the kitchen/dining room.
So together with the tank, it would be pie-in-the-sky costly. Might be able to consider it in 3 years or maybe 5.
Microbubbles continue to annoy me. I won't be happy until they are gone. I turned off the return pipe and pour glue over one joint that had some salt creep buildup. 12 hours later and I still have microbubble albeit a bit less. So how long does it take for microbubbles to dissipate? I know some might be coming from the big CL but I turned that off for a few days and still had bubbles so either the bubbles aren't dissipating or they coming from both sources.
jnarowe
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Tough call without being there. I have micro bubbles only on a re-start and it usually takes one or two hours for them all to clear up. During regular operation I have none. I do have an inbound sump and an outbound sump connected by two 1-1/2" pipes that are mounted down low. That allows the bubbles to rise before the water passes through to the outbound sump. You may need to install a baffle in your sump. Do you have any pictures of the equipment?
Pictures are in this thread somwhere. The bubbles aren't coming from the sump but from the return pump and/or plumbing and teh same for the closed loop pump. I guess 50/50 as 24 hours later of running no return pump I have still have half the amount of bubbles.
The bubbles aren't coming from the sump but from the return pump and/or plumbing and teh same for the closed loop pump. I guess 50/50 as 24 hours later of running no return pump I have still have half the amount of bubbles.
