Martini5788
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What do you mean direct flow? Can you elaborate?
My Ultimate Multi Mantis System(s)
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Kharn
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The tank is being hooked up to the ocean directly and having constant sea water flowing into it then back out of it 24/7.
Martini5788
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My Ultimate Multi Mantis System(s)
Alright that's what I thought you meant. How are you managing that?
Maybe a video to explain?
Alright that's what I thought you meant. How are you managing that?
Maybe a video to explain?
Kharn
MANTISMAN
The tank is situated about 10m away from the water and I am using a mega pump to draw it up out of the ocean and carry it to the tank.
The water will then go into the 2 internal weir overflows and travel back down a 2nd pipe that will carry it back out to sea
I don't have the luxury of 90% of the gadgets gizmos & chemicals that you can get in the west...so pollution input will be non-existent.Here is some of the equipment I have got so far the large air pump is just for transportation because I acquire the animals from other islands sometimes etc. and this pump is AC/DC so it can be charged and then run by itself no power plug for a good 40hrs flat which will give the animals area & flow in their container whilst being transported.
The powerheads are the best I could find here (no magnet types).
Kharn
MANTISMAN
The primary reason I am so confident in all this going smoothly is the simple level of water quality from where I am siphoning out of....the reef I am siphoning from is on my door step (literally) and this reef has COUNTLESS (literally) O.scyllarus/Peacock mantis in it which only tells me GREAT water quality and what's great for peacocks is more then fine for L.mac's .
Good old logic prevails again
.Good old logic prevails again
Calappidae
Harlequin Shrimp
I always wondered how that works with setting up directly on the ocean. One thing that I always questioned was if there is any pathogens harmful to aquariums, but it is still the same water the animal originated from so guess not. Another thing was the tide, whether or not low/high tide would affect anything. After recently reading about "red tides" (toxic cyanobacteria blooms) those got me curious as well.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
I'm more than confident in the overall stability of the systems water, the exchange rate will be constant and should any "event" come along (which never has in all the times I been here) then I will just switch off the main pump and let the tank run stand alone until such event passes by, as rarely as it would appear.
I've swam at both tide levels and in between the changing tide and the density of O.scyllarus populations out and about is unchanged.
Their everywhere.
All I see in difference to putting the animals in my tank is exactly THAT I am merely moving them from the reef into an aquarium every single other detail is the same from chemical to physical.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
The current out front is quite strong like a constant "rip" and when it rains here it never rains for long and the wet season itself is only 2-3months but even in the wet season it rains for only a few hours and at the rate of the current it only takes a few hours for the water to return to its salinity levels, so at times of rain I will merely swift the pump off for double the rain time period (if it rains for 2hrs then pump stays off for 4hrs, 2hrs whilst raining and 2hrs after to let the water return to chemistry).
This also depends on how deep I put the siphon hose in the reef and I aim for as deep as possible/heart of the reef.
This also depends on how deep I put the siphon hose in the reef and I aim for as deep as possible/heart of the reef.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
I'm not ready for videos yet the laptop I have here is nearly 15yrs old lol...
And I can't bring over my old Desktop PC simply because it is beginning to struggle with what I can now do in my various programs which is limiting me in productions.
So everything PC (but not just PC, like cameras too) is being upgraded to a MEGA Laptop its an MSI Laptop basically 2nd best available at the moment and its setting me back $5k but will surpass my Desktops capabilities & give me mobility with it too.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
All things media...
- Professional Green Screen Room.
- Professional High Speed Camera.
- Professional High Definition Camera.
- High Quality/Grade Audio/Recording System.
- The Powerful Laptop.
... Will cost as much as the actual large house I am building here to house everything I am doing in, including the Mantis filming tanks.
(This first tank is just to get things rolling cause I'm starting to get the shakes/withdrawls/antsy LOL).
- Professional Green Screen Room.
- Professional High Speed Camera.
- Professional High Definition Camera.
- High Quality/Grade Audio/Recording System.
- The Powerful Laptop.
... Will cost as much as the actual large house I am building here to house everything I am doing in, including the Mantis filming tanks.
(This first tank is just to get things rolling cause I'm starting to get the shakes/withdrawls/antsy LOL).
Kharn
MANTISMAN
The beginning of the temp tank stand, it's going to be 1 solid piece the inside will be packed with dirt, rock and concrete then there will be a 3inch slab of leveled concrete for the top where the tank will sit, on top of the concrete 3inch slab will be a 2inch thick high density foam which the tank itself will rest on top of.
Martini5788
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It looks like a planter bed right now hahs
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Haha yeah
the slab on top I hope to have done by this afternoon, if not then by tomorrow midday at least.The tank needs to be up and operational before I leave for my short stint back in Aus, no animals in the tank but just water tested and everything etc. before I leave so that when I come back it's full steam ahead GO!
The 'bricks' that make up the wall are stronger than besser blocks too not just because their solid blocks but because the sand used to mix with the cement is volcanic sand.
So I'm confident in the overall strength of the structure, the slab that will go on top will be the same volcanic toughened sand.
Kharn
MANTISMAN
Another step towards completing the Temp Tank Stand!
Before the cement was poured in on top, I watered down all the dirt & stock which made it all sink a good 4inchs which 'compacted' the dirt stone and cement blocks inside it because the water forced the air gaps out/up it was then filled with cement and is now being made perfectly level, next step after this is a thick 2inch foam that will rest on top of it all to act like the styrofoam typically used.
Before the cement was poured in on top, I watered down all the dirt & stock which made it all sink a good 4inchs which 'compacted' the dirt stone and cement blocks inside it because the water forced the air gaps out/up it was then filled with cement and is now being made perfectly level, next step after this is a thick 2inch foam that will rest on top of it all to act like the styrofoam typically used.
Martini5788
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What is the facebook page? I cNt find it
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