Lots of water, or What the heck are you thinking

[Northside Reef]

Well this is the beginning of the ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œwhat the heck are ya thinkingââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ thread.
I am getting pretty close to putting this monster together, it has taken a bit to gather what I have so far.

Like most of us I look at my aquarium and I try to dream up ideas on how I can make it so I can give my animals the best possible home I can give them.

Here are a few concept drawing, and a few pictures of what I have in place so far..


This is the basic idea, Note there are 6 100 gallon refugiums and 2 reservoirs.

This is a better view of how the reservoir will be plumbed

and here are a few pictures of the actual components in place.

 

[bennerkla]

Wow. That is intense.

 

[Northside Reef]

Here is a school of hammerheads

 

[kbmdale]

OMG Dude you've created a monster... I got ideas like that but my wife would kill me...I will have to see how this turns out so I can show her my idea is not crazy....I want a Fuge/sump/res building out behind the house with water lines run underground to an in wall tank in the house....

 

[Northside Reef]

I could not believe how many fittings and valves I was going to need

This is not all of them I just thought I would snap a few pics of'em

 

[Northside Reef]

This wonââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t happen in 14 days but I will keep ya posted as it progresses.

The tank is 280 gallons the sump is 60ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ x 30ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ x 24ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚

That's a 100 gallon rubbermaid tub it is sitting on.

 

[Sonia Taro]

And you can only afford Budwiser after those pumps. I have 2 hammer heads and all I can say is they rock. Bestgt of luck and tagging along

 

[bkiba]

yes best of luck, that setup is awesome. I'm curious as to why you are putting in 3 refugiums instead of one, is it just because of the space you have? You also may want to add some extra support to those shelves holding your refugia, those 125G bins can be quite heavy.

 

[Fursphere]

Insanity.

I like it.

 

[zoocrazy]

"WOW"

 

[VegasMike]

How are you handling any potential humidity issues?

 

[ToddG.]

Potential humidity problems aint the word for it . Also how are you going to get into those tanks setting way up thier by the floor I hope thats not where thier going to be the moisture will go right up into your floor. let alone trying to work in them.

 

[jwccwj]

Wish I had your guts!

 

[VegasMike]

I was trying to be tactful.

The location of those open refugiums sent alarm bells off in my head immediately. It's going to be very hard to address humidity in such an open environment without some serious air movement. That, in turn, will generate even more humidity as will heating the room with the hot water heater and clothes dryer that appear to be there now.

I would suggest green boarding this room and installing an exhuast fan on a dehumidistat at a minimum.

I am not even addressing working inside the refugiums and putting lighting so close to raw wood.

I am hoping that we just haven't been privy to the entire plan.

Mike

 

[VegasMike]

Looks like I mistook a hot water heater as somehting else, hoping it's an air exchage unit of some sort. I still wouldn't want my sump room to be open like that...

 

[Northside Reef]

Looks like I mistook a hot water heater as somehting else, hoping it's an air exchage unit of some sort. I still wouldn't want my sump room to be open like that...

What I do for a living is produce custom polyurethane gaskets foamed in place via a 3 axis CNC robot.

none of this will be open to my house except the tank.

this is my company

http://www.sealtechind.com/

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Sick!

 

[Northside Reef]

Potential humidity problems aint the word for it . Also how are you going to get into those tanks setting way up thier by the floor I hope thats not where thier going to be the moisture will go right up into your floor. let alone trying to work in them.

I know itââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s hard to judge by the 2 dimensional pictures but there is really quite a bit of room on the decks I built to move around the refugiums. Also not easy to see atm is where the lights will be mounted above the refugiums but trust me there is room.

As stated humidity is just not going to be an issue I will seal each refugium with a piece of gasketed acrylic and clamps, it is a piece of cake.

Also the sump itself will be 90% sealed. Most of my oxygen exchange will be via the 2 skimmers on the reservoirs.

 

[ksarauer]

Sweet!! I like the priorities.. Dryer must move for the holding tank

taging along...
kevin

 

[redpyro]

remember mr.4000 humidity destroyed that guys house