JapanReef - 450 gallon In-Wall system

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Damn, I've been found. :D

I actually only have a fraction of the knowledge of some of the guys (and girls) here. I only have a pitiful 50g setup at the moment but even with that I've learned a lot over the last year. And when I start putting it all together I'm going to be leaning on the members here for assistance.

This place is great and a welcome change from WHT. Just lots of people helping and sharing experience. Hardly any attitude and zero BS. This is my internet haven. :)
 
NexDog said:
Hop, I got questions for you - later. :D
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LOL. I'll do all I can, but still insist that I hold a thimble full of knowledge in the sea of salt water know-how:rollface:
 
Now I was just reading back a few pages and you said that you are ordering all US Standard sized pipe fittings and pipe, and I had a thought. What happens if you crack a fitting or have something crack? Are you ordering extras? Just a thought. I have has a pump that seized on me and cracked a PVC pipe on me and I know it may never happen, but what if? You may be out of luck try to get a fitting in a hurry...
 
Good point there. Once I have everything I'll order another box for spares. Please remind me in November. :D

Playing a waiting game at the moment. Waiting for the house, waiting for equipment, waiting for the tank. Few shots for you.

35 Union Ball Valves from the guys at Savko:

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House is coming along. Siding almost done:

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Ceilings and floors later this week and next week then the electric then the inside walls. The speed these guys work at is incredible.
 
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Playing a waiting game at the moment. Waiting for the house, waiting for equipment, waiting for the tank. Few shots for you.
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It will come before you know it. Then at a few points along the way I'm sure some crazy notion will enter your head... What am I doing... -or- Why am I doing this...

But then you will be filling that thing and remember why:D
 
I think it'as time for me to move to Japan,

your house is very nice. I can't wait to see what your tank will look like once you have it set it. Will be watching this thread very closely

Rev.
 
Hop, those thoughts come into my head every month the credit card bill burns the flesh off my fingers. :D

Rev, I'll be learning alot and making lots of mistakes so it should be an interesting adventure. The house is a real challenge though. I always get the thoughts of "Damn, I wish I'd done that" or I wish I hadn't done that" but you just need to keep the bigger picture in mind. The house is not huge by American standards and not strong and sturdy by English standards but for Japan it's pretty big and pretty strong. I built a few HUGE timber frame houses in Breckenridge, Colorado and Whistler, Canada (in my snowboarding days) so the frame and siding concept is not alien to me. Back in the UK everything is brick and block and those house last forever. I mean, a tornado could pass over a house in England and it would lose a few tiles and panes of glass. But over here houses do need to flex as we get a tremor every 3 months at least. A brick house would crack over time (not much time) and over here it's only cold for about 10 weeks at winter so there's no need for the huge amounts of insulation you see in a brick house.

I will say that house constuction over here in Japan has only really developed in the last 10 years or so. If you pass by a house made 25 or 35 years ago it looks like a shack from a shanty town. For a society that embraces western culture so much, they are considerably stuck in their ways. My father-in-law built his house in the traditional Japanese way about 20 years ago and in another 20 years I'm sure it will suffering. I drove our builders crazy with the design of our house but I know that in 40 years it will be as strong as ever and they also learned a thing or too I'm sure. :p
 
Do they not have PVC fittings in Japan? I know the right fittings, valves, etc can be hard to come by locally in the US but it surprises me that you resorted to international mailorder.
I love the pics of newly arrived parts all laid out perty. I'm curious to see how the fish room(s) is looking now - the before shot.
 
Everything here is metric. Getting valves and fittings in inches would be a true nightmare....

The inside of the house hasn't changed much as the focus has been on the outside (roof, windows and siding). Some flooring is down and the outside wall is done but apart from that, not much change.

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Ceings and floors go in next week and then the sheetrock so will have more updates on the fishroom then.
 
NexDog, question about Japanese home construction...

Do they not use indoor plumbing? I think their foundation construction method is amazing, but where is the plumbing? :confused:
 
did you ever think of buying things from Europe, and going metric? What is your goal date for getting water and salt in the tank?
 
MarkS, the plumbing is all in there, you just can't see it. You can see lots of pipes in the crawlspace now though. If you look closely on the left side of the foundation on the following pic you can see the circles where all the valves are.

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rulesmith, as I'm getting the tank built in the US and all the equipment is from the US, getting plumbing fittings from the US was teh only option really. Hopefully I should have the tank by the end of October and water in there a few days after. ;) :D :p

Nah, will probably take about 3 weeks to get it all up and running....

I just received another package from Savko and I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed. As I posted before, all the union ball valves are black. And now all the fittings I've been sent are white. So I'm going to have some hardcore Zebra plumbing. :(
 
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MarkS, the plumbing is all in there, you just can't see it. You can see lots of pipes in the crawlspace now though. If you look closely on the left side of the foundation on the following pic you can see the circles where all the valves are.
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Thanks! It is a very unusual (by US standards) construction method. I did not know what I was looking at. :o

NexDog said:
I just received another package from Savko and I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed. As I posted before, all the union ball valves are black. And now all the fittings I've been sent are white. So I'm going to have some hardcore Zebra plumbing. :(
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You ordered Schedule 40 fittings. The Schedule 80 fittings are dark grey. A little too late, but...
 
Yep, Schedule 40. Gutted. Oh well, the end result will be the same but I did want pretty plumbing. I'm a very meticulous person and I know it's going to annoy me. :p
 
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i'm not sure how far you are from Yokohama but I was there last year and visited a very nice reef store. The first floor was massive fresh water and salt was upstairs. I couldn't believe the amount and quality of fish. What a fab collection of fish they had up there. I wish I knew the name for you.

My wifes family lives outside of Tokyo city in Tokorozawa and her sister in Yokohama. We plan to come back this time next year so I hope your reef is ready by then, perhaps I could stop by :)
 
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