Outdoor Frag Tank in So Cal - Looking Good

[JonezNReef]

During the winter months what are the average temps outside?

 

[TX_UltraReef]

Love this idea and been enjoying the videos, thanks. I have dreams of doing something like this with the help of a greenhouse (maybe with a roof that opens) in southern colorado. My place has 300 day of sunshine a year and good temps...until winter anyway. But I think it might be easier to warm the water than to cool it.

 

[Reefer525XL]

Not sure if this has been asked before but what do you do when it rains?

 

[WilRams]

Not sure if this has been asked before but what do you do when it rains?

This is my biggest question too.

This is very cool props!

 

[jccaclimber]

I'll let the OP speak for himself, but I doubt it makes a huge difference. I don't know the surface area of his frag tank, but even an inch or two over that area seems like it would vanish in a system of that volume. If he really is evaporating 50 GPD as an earlier post implied, that would be less than 1 days swing if the ATO stopped.

 

[asting]

Maybe it is just dilution with the rest of the system, but I'd expect it still take a minute or two to mix properly. Seems like in a downpour it could throw the salinity out of wack.

 

[Willyboz1]

That is awesome. Never thought it could be done especially with the heat we been getting in so cal.

 

[ezcompany]

i'm pretty sure that tank has a cover for when it rains. This is Socal in the middle of an exceptional drought, it almost never rains.