OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[Bax]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12689139#post12689139 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bax
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You could form the floor in troughs that allow water changes to suck out every ounce of detritus with each change. It's just an awesome concept!

Wow! Sometimes you blink and this thread moves along two or three pages! :rollface:

Anyway, with your proposed building materials, what harm would a bulk head do? If your building out of reinforced Kevlar for Pete's sake this thing will literally be bullet proof! :hammer: You could use fiberglass W style sheeting panels that are used in excavation safety as a mold and fiberglass that right into the bottom, Kevlar the **** out of it and put a series of laterals in there to draw out of through one bulk built into the massively strong unit your planning on. A flip of a switch would slurp out all settle detritus.

You could also look at a PVC bottom, like an A.G.E. tank with this design and have the a threaded port instead of a bulkhead right in the PVC

 

[michika]

Will you be DIYing the whole thing yourself? Can you tell me more about Kevlar?

 

[jnarowe]

no bulkheads...what's so hard to understand about that? the return lines will go over the top, much like my current refugium feeds into the display.

I am trying to eliminate as many possible sources for leaks as I can.

Catherine, I don't know enough about Kevlar to give you complete information, but I have learned that a properly vacuum installed Kevlar can be just about as strong as carbon fiber.

Lots more research to do.

 

[Bax]

With a tank that deep that, I assume, will be bare bottom, besides the coolness factor of going into it ever so often, will you really want to do that too often. I mean you seem like a hygenic person and all, but how many times can even a large system stand all your body goo going into it?

So, don't have bulkheads for the detritus collection system. Build in throughs with lateras and plumb it to a Mag 18 or some other rediculously powerful submersible pump. It won't add any heat as you'll only run it once in a while. And maintianing the pump is the perfect excuse to go for the occasional swim

 

[jnarowe]

And that's the reality check...will I really want to get in? I am hoping to push a radical amount of water through Penductors down deep to flush the detritus out, but some flow dynamics research must be done to vet this idea.

 

[Bax]

You know somehow somewhere there will be setlled detritus at the bottom. Because, ... detritus happens.

You could , of course, still use a submersible pump to run a loop with ports that would just "pressure wash" the bottom of the tank once or twice a day to resuspend the poo back into the flow of the penductors.

 

[jnarowe]

The Penductors should be able to easily accomplish this. Because Because I don't have the drawings, it's difficult to understand how I would employ them.

BTW, when I would get into the tank, I would be taking a vacuum hose connected to a heavy duty external filter that would polish the water as it is pulled out, and return it to the sump. Maybe even a multi-stage unit with a diatomaceous module.

 

[michika]

Have you thought about how you may get something like a frag/clam/diamond ring/etc. that falls off your rockwork to the bottom?

 

[mrcrab]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12693809#post12693809 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by michika
Have you thought about how you may get something like a frag/clam/diamond ring/etc. that falls off your rockwork to the bottom?

Recovery Method

 

[tbittner]

LMAO!!!

 

[jnarowe]

Good one Barry. Actually, I am still missing a gold ring I lost about a year and a half ago...I don't think the depth will make much difference, but, you are correct, some corals could get lost. I lose them in my current tank fairly often.

 

[Bax]

That U Tube vid is a riot!

 

[erics3000]

I am ordering that training kit right now..heheheh

 

[jnarowe]

yeah, maybe it will work for the dog too?

 

[mrcrab]

Doesn't work on dogs or children, but you could train the cat with it!

 

[tbittner]

How about the wife?

 

[mrcrab]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12707520#post12707520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbittner
How about the wife?

You're kidding, right?

 

[tbittner]

I don't know... Let me ask her...

 

[mrcrab]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12707626#post12707626 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbittner
I don't know... Let me ask her...

:lol:

 

[jnarowe]

So how's that couch...cumfy?