New 265g from Portugal

[sahin]

Nice work with the light lift Rui. :thumbsup:

The top down macro shots are hard due to low depth of field and handheld. But bit more practice will get you the results.

 

[Achilles Torben]

The light lift runs better than mine. Good work [emoji106]

Grüße Torben

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[Michael Hoaster]

Hello!

I just read through your whole thread. Great build! Everything you've done is just pure excellence.

I too built my tank with no visible plumbing, pumps or wires. What initially attracted me to this thread was your building boxes to hide your powerheads. Then I see you later added mp40s in the display. You didn't explain what lead to this. Can you explain what happened? Were the tunzes just not powerful enough? Was there a design flaw with your boxes to house them? If you were to redo the tank, what would you do differently to keep pumps hidden, while still getting enough water movement?

I don't mean to be critical. I just want to know what happened, as I am planning a similar design.

Thanks for posting a great thread!

 

[carrots]

Beautiful stuff. Thanks for posting Rui

 

[rmgaspar]

Nice work with the light lift Rui. :thumbsup:

The top down macro shots are hard due to low depth of field and handheld. But bit more practice will get you the results.

Thanks Sahin ... I need the BAO for the top down. End of February we will see how the pictures come out ...

The light lift runs better than mine. Good work [emoji106]

Grüße Torben

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Thanks ... it took me a while to figure out how to do it ...

Hello!

I just read through your whole thread. Great build! Everything you've done is just pure excellence.

I too built my tank with no visible plumbing, pumps or wires. What initially attracted me to this thread was your building boxes to hide your powerheads. Then I see you later added mp40s in the display. You didn't explain what lead to this. Can you explain what happened? Were the tunzes just not powerful enough? Was there a design flaw with your boxes to house them? If you were to redo the tank, what would you do differently to keep pumps hidden, while still getting enough water movement?

I don't mean to be critical. I just want to know what happened, as I am planning a similar design.

Thanks for posting a great thread!

Thank you.
uhhhh your are mean ... you are touching the hound with salt ... :lol2:

So the Tunze 6095 are powerful. I can tell you that. Inside the box it does not work because you loose a lot of flow. One thing I came to realise is that the water that enters the pump creates almost more flow that the water coming out of the pump. So with the pump inside the box you are actually loosing a lot. As soon as I moved the pumps out the difference was amazing

If you want just to make waves ... it works fine just like the Tunze Wave Box ... but I don't like waves ... I prefer a chaotic pattern
just don't forget to open 2 big holes per Tunze to ensure you always have water inside the box and you don't have a lot of bubbles in the display.

I can tell you also that other have tried and came to the same conclusion. It simply doesn't work properly.

Also another big problem was the overflows. Very small overflow. You can see from my pictures that I always have a lot of debris in the water column

Beautiful stuff. Thanks for posting Rui

Thanks for reading Carrots. Appreciated.

Meanwhile the tank is getting ready to be changed.

I am getting simpler and simpler by the day. And what I feel is that every time I simplify things the aquarium and the corals respond better. So the new tank is without inventions and a simple proven build!

The aquarium is smaller but actually I am going to get 20cm more of display.

Old: 230x80x60cm 12mm glass but due to the overflow boxes I only had 200cm

The new one is ready and the supplier sent me some pictures:

New: 220x80x60cm 15mm glass with clear on the front and coast to coast overflow.

The change is scheduled for next saturday. Which me luck!

All the best,
Rui

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Sorry for the salt. But thanks for explaining!

I figured it was something like that. In my tank, I use a closed loop, with a Reeflow Dart, that is fed by the overflow, so I don't have flow issues. Interesting that you said it works like a wave box, which is another thing I was thinking of hiding. I keep seagrasses, which I think would look very nice, with a wave moving them back and forth.

Good luck with the new tank! Looks awesome!

 

[rmgaspar]

Sorry for the salt. But thanks for explaining!

I figured it was something like that. In my tank, I use a closed loop, with a Reeflow Dart, that is fed by the overflow, so I don't have flow issues. Interesting that you said it works like a wave box, which is another thing I was thinking of hiding. I keep seagrasses, which I think would look very nice, with a wave moving them back and forth.

Good luck with the new tank! Looks awesome!

Thank you Michael!

 

[rmgaspar]

Meanwhile some of the last pictures before tank tear down!

Sorry for the noise in the pictures. I always have the water column full of debris but I hope the new aquarium design will solve that!

 

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[rmgaspar]

I am missing a FTS that I will do before tear down!

All the best,
Rui

 

[sahin]

I'm really enjoying the photographs Rui. Well done with those. I can wait to see photos of the new tank.

 

[rmgaspar]

I'm really enjoying the photographs Rui. Well done with those. I can wait to see photos of the new tank.

Thanks Sahin.
Me too. I took some pictures @Paulo Oliveira a couple of days ago. It's different and much better with clear glass!

Meanwhile the new tank arrived. Sorry I don't have pictures. I was with my hands full ... LOL

For Saturday I will try to put my GoPro to document the change!

All the best,
Rui

 

[jkapit]

Awsome tank build thread, thanks for sharing.

 

[rmgaspar]

Awsome tank build thread, thanks for sharing.

Thank you ... I will. I keep this more as a journal of my experience in hope that others don't do the same mistakes I made.

I know a lot of people that for lot less left the hobby.

And by the way ... looking at the last photo with the cushions supporting the aquarium. If my wife see's it she is going to kill me :spin2::spin2::spin2:

All the best,
Rui

 

[Dromon]

Hi from Canada. What a gorgeous tank. Great corals, amazing photography and I really love your fish collection! :fish2:

 

[sahin]

How are things going Rui?

 

[HermitTheCrab]

Canada here as well..Saying hi...Enjoying your journey..Best of luck.

HtC.

 

[rmgaspar]

Hi from Canada. What a gorgeous tank. Great corals, amazing photography and I really love your fish collection! :fish2:

Thank you Dromon.

How are things going Rui?

Everything went well. Check next post!

Canada here as well..Saying hi...Enjoying your journey..Best of luck.

HtC.

Thank you HermitTheCrab

 

[rmgaspar]

Hello everyone

So finally let update this thread!

The work started at 11 am last Friday Feb 3rd

When the tank was delivered the guy told me ... why the hell are you going to hide 30cm of aquarium behind the wall? you should open the wall to be able to see the full 2.2m ...

That statement made me wonder for a very short amount of time and soon I began to remove the frame since I would have to do it anyway ...

At this stage I only had removed the bar in the middle so that I could remove the old and put back the new in!

Frame partially ripped off

The good this is that as soon as I removed the frame I could reach 10cm further my face and my line of sight to the corals changed completely to a point I was seeing stuff I never saw before. The next quick decision was to put the aquarium to wall face!

While I was waiting for help to move the tank and open the wall I started to align the PVC to make sure I wasn't missing anything (it ended up missing some pieces but was fine and easy to solve)

And so the work began Friday. At this stage I was still doing things alone!

Some photos I took from the layout so that I could redo it after! Really love this layout!