Matt's 5000ltr Display
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d3hree
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Hi Martin...yeah the Maldives were lovely..as usual. It was difficult to go from 38 degrees down to 4 when we got home!
Great video Matt and nice to see the tank moving on in the right direction
Cheers Ash
Hi Jan. Hope youre well. Yeah the Mantas were lovely. They were not supposed to be around and were a couple of weeks late moving on...thankfully.
Thanks!
A few more pics of the recent (boring) progress
The passive intakes for the closed loop manifold are 4" and due to this I had to use koi slip guards. These are pretty chunky and the slots are pretty big so I was worried that small fish could swim up the intakes and get mangled in the pumps.
I got some standard filter sponge and hacked it up into thin slices with a stanley knife.
I could then lay that inside the slip guard to (hopefully) prevent small fish entering the manifold
I installed cover glass for the lumenarc reflectors
Finally I added loc line directional flow nozzels to the calfo horizontal outlets
...and the cls that points back up to the reef from the front base
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
d3hree
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thanks Ush..not long now!!
wow... nice one, cant wait for it to finished....
Thanks guys
Not a lot to update recently.
The sand was delivered on Christmas eve. A tonne for the dsb and rdsb
..and possibly the worst mermaid shots in the history of the hobby!
just had a full re-read of the thread to catch up. It has come a long way. All the pipe work is impressive in its self, looks like your feeding a ICI plant lol. I cant wait to see thwe underwater cam in action. Where did you get the black spray for the pipework from?
kieron
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izzy123
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looking good, I've been following your thread for a while now (and stealing ideas )
just a quick question, how did you determine the diameter of the main drain on your surge tank?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm attempting to steal your idea but I have to donwnscale it (obviously) to roughly 40 to 50 liters.
I'm more of a "fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants" kind of guy, and when I did the test with 32mm drain, I found the flow a bit weak.
Thanks for the help and the great read.
Oh, and best wishes for the new year:wavehand:
)just a quick question, how did you determine the diameter of the main drain on your surge tank?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm attempting to steal your idea
but I have to donwnscale it (obviously) to roughly 40 to 50 liters.I'm more of a "fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants" kind of guy, and when I did the test with 32mm drain, I found the flow a bit weak.
Thanks for the help and the great read.
Oh, and best wishes for the new year:wavehand:
d3hree
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Hi Izzy
My surge pipe diameter was dictated by the actuated ball valve. At 2" the ABV was the biggest one that I could find at a cost I was willing to pay.
A successful surge is a factor of the speed you can deliver a set amount of water. You can do this in two ways...a wide bore on the surge pipe..or the surge tank itself sat as high as you can go. I tried to do a bit of both. The 2" pipe is pretty wide but the surge would be more effective with a 4" pipe. Due to this I tried to raise the surge tank as high as I could still maintaining a reasonable level of access.
If you are restricted to a 32mm pipe then you could raise the surge tank higher so that you use gravity in your favour and the momentum of the water falling means the surge is delivered quicker and thus giving you a more dramatic surge. Alternatively you could increase the bore of the pipe...or a bit of both. Is your surge using an ABV?..or a carlson/bourneman surge?
HTH
My surge pipe diameter was dictated by the actuated ball valve. At 2" the ABV was the biggest one that I could find at a cost I was willing to pay.
A successful surge is a factor of the speed you can deliver a set amount of water. You can do this in two ways...a wide bore on the surge pipe..or the surge tank itself sat as high as you can go. I tried to do a bit of both. The 2" pipe is pretty wide but the surge would be more effective with a 4" pipe. Due to this I tried to raise the surge tank as high as I could still maintaining a reasonable level of access.
If you are restricted to a 32mm pipe then you could raise the surge tank higher so that you use gravity in your favour and the momentum of the water falling means the surge is delivered quicker and thus giving you a more dramatic surge. Alternatively you could increase the bore of the pipe...or a bit of both. Is your surge using an ABV?..or a carlson/bourneman surge?
HTH
izzy123
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Well, like I said before, I'm stealing ideas from you :uhoh3: so yes, it is an ABV, but with an "izzy" twist..... I'm in the process of building my own ABV.... well, to be honest, my friends are helping me out on this one.
My "milling" buddy has created a simple plastic ball valve that sits inside the surge tank instead of outside, so small leaks should not be an issue, and I plan to drive the surge tank with a high torque servo (10 kilo (or 20 pounds) of torque) that will be actuated with floatswitches and driven by an arduino board ( that's where an other buddy of mine comes into play)
The height of the surge is limited by the ceiling, so the difference between the water level of the DT and the bottom of the surge is 50 centimeter.
I'll try to go with a 40mm bore
thanks, and sorry for taking up so much space in your thread
My "milling" buddy has created a simple plastic ball valve that sits inside the surge tank instead of outside, so small leaks should not be an issue, and I plan to drive the surge tank with a high torque servo (10 kilo (or 20 pounds) of torque) that will be actuated with floatswitches and driven by an arduino board ( that's where an other buddy of mine comes into play)
The height of the surge is limited by the ceiling, so the difference between the water level of the DT and the bottom of the surge is 50 centimeter.
I'll try to go with a 40mm bore
thanks, and sorry for taking up so much space in your thread
d3hree
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The last bit of plumbing I needed to do was to join the plumbing tank side to the plumbing in the fish room. I was annoyed at myself for the positioning of the core I drilled through the cavity wall. I never checked the placement of the guttering downpipe and the hole hit it exactly. This made the plumbing from tank to fish room a real PITA.
In the pics above there are:
4 closed loop pipes
The water fill pipe that can directly replenish the tank from the water change vat if needed.
The return via the heater
The return via the UV
The surge feed pipe
The surge overflow pipe
All had to be plumbed around the drainpipe.
Once I had done the plumbing I installed the 2nd trace heater and made a start on the frame and cladding that will cover it all.
This is where I have left it for tonight...I will carry on tomorrow when its light again
In the pics above there are:
4 closed loop pipes
The water fill pipe that can directly replenish the tank from the water change vat if needed.
The return via the heater
The return via the UV
The surge feed pipe
The surge overflow pipe
All had to be plumbed around the drainpipe.
Once I had done the plumbing I installed the 2nd trace heater and made a start on the frame and cladding that will cover it all.
This is where I have left it for tonight...I will carry on tomorrow when its light again
d3hree
New member
The last bit of plumbing I needed to do was to join the plumbing tank side to the plumbing in the fish room. I was annoyed at myself for the positioning of the core I drilled through the cavity wall. I never checked the placement of the guttering downpipe and the hole hit it exactly. This made the plumbing from tank to fish room a real PITA.
In the pics above there are:
4 closed loop pipes
The water fill pipe that can directly replenish the tank from the water change vat if needed.
The return via the heater
The return via the UV
The surge feed pipe
The surge overflow pipe
All had to be plumbed around the drainpipe.
Once I had done the plumbing I installed the 2nd trace heater and made a start on the frame and cladding that will cover it all.
This is where I have left it for tonight...I will carry on tomorrow when its light again
In the pics above there are:
4 closed loop pipes
The water fill pipe that can directly replenish the tank from the water change vat if needed.
The return via the heater
The return via the UV
The surge feed pipe
The surge overflow pipe
All had to be plumbed around the drainpipe.
Once I had done the plumbing I installed the 2nd trace heater and made a start on the frame and cladding that will cover it all.
This is where I have left it for tonight...I will carry on tomorrow when its light again
dave.m
Active member
I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at in your latest photos. I guess I was always under the impression that your sump room was directly beside the tank room. Now it looks like the rooms aren't even on the same floor and that you are running the pipes from the tank room outside the house and then down through the roof to the sump room on a lower level. Is this correct?
Thx,
Dave.M
Thx,
Dave.M
The last bit of plumbing I needed to do was to join the plumbing tank side to the plumbing in the fish room. I was annoyed at myself for the positioning of the core I drilled through the cavity wall. I never checked the placement of the guttering downpipe and the hole hit it exactly. This made the plumbing from tank to fish room a real PITA.
In the pics above there are:
4 closed loop pipes
The water fill pipe that can directly replenish the tank from the water change vat if needed.
The return via the heater
The return via the UV
The surge feed pipe
The surge overflow pipe
All had to be plumbed around the drainpipe.
Once I had done the plumbing I installed the 2nd trace heater and made a start on the frame and cladding that will cover it all.
This is where I have left it for tonight...I will carry on tomorrow when its light again
Blimmey Matt :eek2:
I cant believe all that fantasic forward planning and drawing came down to that tangle. Bet you were not happy :headwally:
But sometimes thing get in the way and have to be worked round. You have contiued to move forward on this huge build, I cant wait to see all the system running .
Cheers Martin
