My Shallow Cube Build Thread
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lovetoreef
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great work - way to be dedicated! i can't stop once i start working on my tank - one of the reasons i hate changing equipment!
where did you buy the azoo fans?? Thanks.
where did you buy the azoo fans?? Thanks.
cham
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I know it, I've been at it 12 hours today. I had to change the plumbing on my refugium. It wasn't draining nearly fast enough. I had to run two seperate lines for the emergency and normal drain lines. I also had a leak on the pressurised side of my snapper that took me ahwile to fix and my Durso's weren't draining correctly. That took me another several hours. I'm wipped!
Fans came from Dr Foster & Smith.
Seem to be very quiet so far.
cham
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By the way. Do we have any Durso guys in the house?
To start with the one durso could not keep up with the pump, so I stuck my finger over the little air hole at the top of the pipe and all the sudden it went WOOSH and started keeping up with the snapper.
Is it safe to keep that hole plugged like that? I though I heard of people putting air valves on them to control airflow but I'm not really sure how all that works.
Any info would be helpful.
To start with the one durso could not keep up with the pump, so I stuck my finger over the little air hole at the top of the pipe and all the sudden it went WOOSH and started keeping up with the snapper.
Is it safe to keep that hole plugged like that? I though I heard of people putting air valves on them to control airflow but I'm not really sure how all that works.
Any info would be helpful.
rhoptowit
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when u covered the hole u basically created a full siphon as the air was purged out (the sound u heard) by letting small amounts of air into the durso you can control the flow rate, and thats what that little hole u covered is for. you should be able to adjust it some how either by twisting the cap to make the hole smaller or something. and people put airvalves on it for more control.
personally i do what bean animal does and have a ball valve restricting some of the flow that way no bubbles get into my sump creating microbubbles but in ur case you might not have to worry about that.
oh by the way, beautiful tank. will they ship to hawaii? tagging along.
personally i do what bean animal does and have a ball valve restricting some of the flow that way no bubbles get into my sump creating microbubbles but in ur case you might not have to worry about that.
oh by the way, beautiful tank. will they ship to hawaii? tagging along.
lovetoreef
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man, this is going to be an awesome tank!
on the durso's - you may need to increase the hole size on the durso cap ... the use of air valve works, but, you want to make sure you flush it to avoid clogging
on the durso's - you may need to increase the hole size on the durso cap ... the use of air valve works, but, you want to make sure you flush it to avoid clogging
bluenose990
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looks great! will heat be an issue with the garage sump? i am interested to see how you are going to enclose the sump area.
cham
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The garage is really hot. I do live in Florida too. These are the hottest months and I do not have a chiller. I have pretty big faith in fans but we will all soon see.
My fresh water test. Went great except I forgot to close the refugium ball valve. It was wide open and while I was in the garage managing the snapper it dumped about 10 gallons on my living room floor :mad2: .
At least I got my first flood out of the way early
Here are some freshwater test pics.
Thats wide open flow. A 2400 gph snapper should be blasting a whole lot more than this wide open right?
6' of head pressure, one 1 1/4" elbow split off to two 1" with two elbows each for a total of 5 elbows and 6' of head
The headloss calculator says that with elbows, ball valves, unions and head pressure I should still be getting no less than 1900 gph.
Any way for the average joe to test gph?
My fresh water test. Went great except I forgot to close the refugium ball valve. It was wide open and while I was in the garage managing the snapper it dumped about 10 gallons on my living room floor :mad2: .
At least I got my first flood out of the way early
Here are some freshwater test pics.
Thats wide open flow. A 2400 gph snapper should be blasting a whole lot more than this wide open right?
6' of head pressure, one 1 1/4" elbow split off to two 1" with two elbows each for a total of 5 elbows and 6' of head
The headloss calculator says that with elbows, ball valves, unions and head pressure I should still be getting no less than 1900 gph.
Any way for the average joe to test gph?
lovetoreef
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it sounds crazy, and, it might b/c i am tired right now, but, if i recally correctly i had to increase my hole size on the durso to correct that issue - of course, you can always pout a piece of tape over the holes and make a smaller hole and see if that fixes it ... or, if you are going with the air valve, you are going to need a bigger hole anyways, so, try a little bigger hole
lovetoreef
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to test for the gph, you could always mark on your tank how high say 20 gallons is and then measure the time it takes to fill up to that point and convert that number to gph - similar to a bucket test, but a tank test
cham
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Quick update, I picked up my live rock. Each rock weighs roughly 25 lbs.
The skimmer did a really nice job of skimming sand and sediment out of the water column after I added the sandbeds to the tank.
About 30 minutes worth
I can't believe how it got some of these lareger pieces to the top of the bubble column and into the collection cup. Theres a DSB in my skimmate cup.
The skimmer did a really nice job of skimming sand and sediment out of the water column after I added the sandbeds to the tank.
About 30 minutes worth
I can't believe how it got some of these lareger pieces to the top of the bubble column and into the collection cup. Theres a DSB in my skimmate cup.
rustrocker
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Looks beautiful
cham
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Thanks guys.
I cant wait to get corals in there. I've got three pretty good sized SPS colonies waiting for me at my LFS but I'm figuring I should give it at least a week or two before I start adding any corals.
I did get 15 gallons of water from my LFS SPS display tank that is full of life. The rock is really nice (Marshall Islands I think?) so I should have little or no cycle. Even if, my skimmer is enough to clean my system by itself with no help from anything else.
This will be mostly SPS & clams with some select slow growing softies and LPS
My fish list is looking like this:
3 blue green chromis
1 sixline wrasse
1 tailspot blenny
2 janns pipefish
3 Kashiwae Anthias
I cant wait to get corals in there. I've got three pretty good sized SPS colonies waiting for me at my LFS but I'm figuring I should give it at least a week or two before I start adding any corals.
I did get 15 gallons of water from my LFS SPS display tank that is full of life. The rock is really nice (Marshall Islands I think?) so I should have little or no cycle. Even if, my skimmer is enough to clean my system by itself with no help from anything else.
This will be mostly SPS & clams with some select slow growing softies and LPS
My fish list is looking like this:
3 blue green chromis
1 sixline wrasse
1 tailspot blenny
2 janns pipefish
3 Kashiwae Anthias
