Mark's 180 Starfire upgrade

[cbui2]

ok back to your thread, how are you supposed to get any work done while on computer all night?

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12053091#post12053091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9
I love the power of editing Thats better

Ok- Terry, you can post again.

I should have packages arriving Tue, Wed, and Fri this week. I need to find something for a Thurs delivery so the UPS guy doesn't forget where I live.

 

[cbui2]

Mark i just added you to be my buddy :lol: . you should try Fed Ex much better service and faster while UPS practice dodge ball all the time. what other items are left on ordered besides bulks to finished the job?

 

[Nuuze]

Looks nice Mark! Great woodwoorking, I wish I could cut wood straight.

 

[tbone28]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12053195#post12053195 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cbui2
Mark i just added you to be my buddy :lol: . you should try Fed Ex much better service and faster while UPS practice dodge ball all the time. what other items are left on ordered besides bulks to finished the job?

I agree. Fed Ex is much more consistent than the guys in the brown uniform.

 

[mpoletti]

Fed ex is more reputable, but I use whatever that particular company uses. Let see, this week I should have arriving the rest of my shechdule 80 plumbing, a new ballast, my new radiums, a wavy sea, a vortech, my spectrapure top off, some John guest fittings and hopefully my reflectors. I still need to get my VHO's and I was also planning a trip to your reef this week sometime.

I think I need to make up some frag packs.

 

[tbone28]

lol, I don't need a prop tank, since my display is a 180g frag tank.

What's your flow going to be?

 

[mpoletti]

So far, I will have two vortechs on each end, two 6055 nanos in the back corners and I also have two other modded 6025's that I might attach to the trapazoid overflow that would shoot out to front the corners. My return pump is a snapper, but with head loss for my chiller and differrent feeds and I know I will lose a lot of pressure. Both of my return lines will be fed into wavy seas. I hope that make sense. I am going to start there , but I know over time I will add more flow. That is just how I roll.

 

[tbone28]

are you going BB?

 

[mpoletti]

No, I like the look of sand. I've thought it more than once, but I will be running a 1-2' ssb in my display and a MSB in the fuge.

 

[tbone28]

How are you going to keep the sand in place with that much flow? I'm already having issues keeping my sand in place

 

[mpoletti]

I use a mixture of different sands, Some fine, some #3 sand and I also like to mix in med aragonite. The size of arm media really does well in places of heavy flow. That is another reason I like the nano's, you can put the 4" inches below the waters surface and point the upwards a little bit. I have a vortech, 2 6055's and a 6025 in my 90 with a sand bed. A lot of it just depends on where your rocks are too.

 

[tbone28]

Dude, I need you to come do my tank right when I get my 6101 and nano's

 

[mpoletti]

When I do my next trip to the Bay, I will hit you up. I know that I want to get over to see Erik's tank as well and I believe that you guys are not that far apart. I just hope I can make it down there before the BACFM in May.

 

[brianbigoats]

i think you need more flow
i am going with 4 vortech and a 6045 in my elos 160 plus i going back to a super ssb

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12053445#post12053445 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by brianbigoats
i think you need more flow
i am going with 4 vortech and a 6045 in my elos 160 plus i going back to a super ssb

Yeah, but that is just crazy. You've seen Karls tank and he is not a flow guru. I happy around 60x turnover.

This tank will be a big change for you. Sand? Halides?

 

[brianbigoats]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12053450#post12053450 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9

This tank will be a big change for you. Sand? Halides?

Girfriend

 

[mpoletti]

Oh girlfriend Gotcha--good cover up.

 

[brianbigoats]

no she does not like the icecap blue solar flare

 

[mpoletti]

Ahh, I'd take the giesemann over the solar flare too. Smart woman you've got there.