David Corbett
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That much vertical water, has the nessecary engineering been done to ensure the lower acrylic joints will hold? Thats alot of pressure, it looks fantastic, good job. DOC
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dgasmd
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7181219#post7181219 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spazz
I just thought of something. How are you planning to clean the bottom of the skimmer? That in time will become an issue. I had an aerofoamer 848 That was only 4' tall when you tok off everything at the top. I could never get to the bottom of it to clean it properly. God forbid you have to tinker with the plumbing at the bottom of it as that would be much much worse. I guess this thing is so big you could hold a 10 year old by its feet while he cleans it or pay a skinny 5 year old to go in completely and clean the bottom :lol: :lol: :lol:
jnarowe
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I think from my viewpoint the difficulty will be in what to do with the water while it's being cleaned. What I have done is installed a magnet cleaner in my skimmer body. All I have to do is run it around like I am cleaning a tank. Bll could do the same thing in the lower unit. He wouldn't be able to get every little spot but most of it could be cleaned that way.
spazz
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it dont need to be 3/4 because its not that tall of a box. the 1/2" will be just fine on there. because the acrylic is not tall enought to flex that much when under pressure. trust me that skimmer is better built than any other skimmer i have ever seen. even the rk2 is not built as well as big bertha is. i have never see a skimmer tube that is 1/2" thick tube! this skimmer is a tank compared to other skimmers. trust me bill dont skimp on design. he over builds everything. and cleaning is a breeze. add 1/2 a gallon of hydracloric acid to the skimmer and let it run for 1/2 an hour then dump it all down the drain. you will have 1 clean skimmer after that. and no scrubbing either. i know you thing this is crazy. but thats not even the start of crazy. wait untill you see my new ca reactor. then you will think i need an appointment to the nut house.
spazz
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there already on there. but his 2 sumps would handle that little bit of water with no problem. i think his 2 sumps are around 500-600 gallons. so the skimmer is the least of his worries. plus he has this awesome onan generator thas set to kick on automaticly when the power goes out.so he is covered twice!
U guys are the shizzznit! Spazz.... when you get some time we need to brainstorm on my reefmania skimmer. I already want to mod it....the performance is too moody....
what is the lag time on the cone for this bad boy. this is by far my most favorite thread in the whole widest world!
what is the lag time on the cone for this bad boy. this is by far my most favorite thread in the whole widest world!
spazz
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if you ever build a fish room you need to build it twice as big as you think it needs to be. then you will never run out of room for that next tank. bill's fish room is too small for him. he wants to build a bigger tank but cant because the room is too small. it looks big but in reality its not. a 17'x30' fish room get real small with a 10,000 reef tank in it. and that the small than bill wants. I'm personally wishing he builds the big one. that would be about 20,000 gallons. now if he builds that tank then I want to help him build the skimmer for it. but its the crane he would need installed in the fish room to lift the cup off the skimmer that would be a big problem. getting the permits for that would be tough. how do you explain to the local permit office that you need a 5 ton commercial overhead crane in your house for your hobby.
jnarowe
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Scott That's another thing I need to get...a generator. We have electrical problems here and my sumps will barely hold what's in my overflow! Man I should have used larger sumps!
Ben Fish rooms really help in a lot of ways. While it does lower the 3-D aspect of an in-room tank, I don't really care because I can look at all 4 sides any time I want, and I find that part of the viewing experience for visitors is getting to tour the tank room. The positives are endless though and if I had a smaller home, I would have seriously considered an addition to create a tank room. It doesn't cost as much as one would think. I happen to have a house with a lot of extra space and an ideal floor plan on the bottom floor, so that made it a lot easier. I just had to rebuild the room and add a giant header. Not fun but well worth it!
Ben Fish rooms really help in a lot of ways. While it does lower the 3-D aspect of an in-room tank, I don't really care because I can look at all 4 sides any time I want, and I find that part of the viewing experience for visitors is getting to tour the tank room. The positives are endless though and if I had a smaller home, I would have seriously considered an addition to create a tank room. It doesn't cost as much as one would think. I happen to have a house with a lot of extra space and an ideal floor plan on the bottom floor, so that made it a lot easier. I just had to rebuild the room and add a giant header. Not fun but well worth it!
asnatlas
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I will have to agree with spazz, My fish room liked decent sized until I stuck 2x 150gal, 2x 50gal rubbermaid poly tanks, a sink, and a BK400 skimmer, still need to find room for a 250ish gal water storage tank and a few extra QT tanks and what not...
Next house will have a very nice sized dedicated fish room
jnarowe
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Absolutely...at least when dealing with local authorities. In our town there are explicit rules regarding store signage and when we opened our store we played by the rules. Even had to get a permit for a sandwich-board type sign! Well a year later the town threatened to confiscate all sandwich board signs and I went ballistic. I won the battle and then a member of a certain cadre stole our $300 hand painted sign. After about 3 years of battling with this group I finally was able to expell their plants in the downtown association and got rid of their "manager".
Now I see all sorts of improper (although well built and useful) signs and I know the store owners just didn't pay attention to the rules. Like we have a rule that there are no lighted signs except for the "grandfathered in" couple including ours. The point is to keep the town charm and historical aspect, butI see all sorts of lighted signs. I don't care personally and am glad that people are bending the rules. What happens in most cases is that a rule is developed that benefits a certain segment while costing the rest some inconvenience or income etc.
Anyway to get back to the point, we have to many people and agencies telling us how and when to fart and I have found that ignoring them works the best!:lol:
I have a good example: one time we had a health dept. inspection and the just-out-of-school inspector wrote us up for having bait in our ice bag display. Let me paint a picture: We use an old ice cream store freezer which is basically a coffin freezer with plastic lift-up windows and in it we display bags of ice and fishing bait that is vacuum packed.
So the inspector stated in HER report that if there was a power outage there was a possibility of the bait mixing with the ice that is meant for human consumption. I got totally bent! I told her and called her superior and said that if there was a power outage, the ice would be a puddle of water on the floor and therefore not consumed by humans....hmmmm I just thought of something...I could have shop-vac'd it up and re-froze it right? Anyway, they refused to change the report.
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