Angela Short
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Well, we are moving very fast on the new house for this time of year and the new tank will need to be ordered soon. Getting our current house ready for market and overseeing this project has kept me off line completely!
This is the view looking from my kitchen to where it will sit separating the living room and kitchen. The breakfast table is going to sit in front of it so now instead of a dog begging for bites at dinner it will be fish
. The viewing area is going to be a little over 6 feet x 31 tall. I am ordering a 7" tank with starfire panels and the overflows will be on the ends. We will frame over the overflows so they are hidden from veiw but the wall will have to be cut to get the tank out if I ever had issues or got out of reefin so lets not think about the what if's! Especially since its gonna be another glass cages tank!! I need to change the stand a little but will have access panels from the kitchen side.
another angle looking from the living room though to the kitchen. This is the view you will see walking in the front door of the home.
And a shot of where I want to plumb the remote sump and equipment room. I was thinking under the stairs to the left of the pic. We have a crawlspace so just going down under the tank would be a pain getting to the sump to do anything.
I have talked with Wayne about how to get the water down under the house and back up to a sump sitting on floor level and he thinks it would work like a sink trap. Go down the overflows through the floor, drop the 10-15 feet over to under the stairs and back up through the floor into a sump. The sump will be lower than the tank so the pressure of the water from the tank should make this work, right? ( My plumber was almost clueless but didn't see why it wouldn't work) Wayne and I just talked briefly and I haven't had time to get back with him yet but in theory I don't see why it wouldn't work like a sink trap in a way. The only thing I see maybe being an issue is the air the overflows suck to regulate the flow since the water flow has to do a 90 (2 45's) to get back up to the sump. Will all the bubbles create some sort of weird back pressure cutting uphill like that? Should I go from a 1.5 overflow drain to a 2" under the floor to help this? Also we didn't get to talk about how to actually get the water actually into the sump. Do some sort of bulkhead in the bottom of a tank and let the water just come up and in this manner then hit the bubble baffles over to the fuge/sump area. Have a separate sump and fuge tank? Or one huge tank divided? I have tons of room under the stairs and am having a drain and water line installed so plan on doing water changes and everything from under the steps. My 50 gallon barrel fits with lots of room to spare so I am very excited about using all this space if I can get the water over to it!! Any advise is much appreciated.
This is the view looking from my kitchen to where it will sit separating the living room and kitchen. The breakfast table is going to sit in front of it so now instead of a dog begging for bites at dinner it will be fish
. The viewing area is going to be a little over 6 feet x 31 tall. I am ordering a 7" tank with starfire panels and the overflows will be on the ends. We will frame over the overflows so they are hidden from veiw but the wall will have to be cut to get the tank out if I ever had issues or got out of reefin so lets not think about the what if's! Especially since its gonna be another glass cages tank!! I need to change the stand a little but will have access panels from the kitchen side.
another angle looking from the living room though to the kitchen. This is the view you will see walking in the front door of the home.
And a shot of where I want to plumb the remote sump and equipment room. I was thinking under the stairs to the left of the pic. We have a crawlspace so just going down under the tank would be a pain getting to the sump to do anything.
I have talked with Wayne about how to get the water down under the house and back up to a sump sitting on floor level and he thinks it would work like a sink trap. Go down the overflows through the floor, drop the 10-15 feet over to under the stairs and back up through the floor into a sump. The sump will be lower than the tank so the pressure of the water from the tank should make this work, right? ( My plumber was almost clueless but didn't see why it wouldn't work) Wayne and I just talked briefly and I haven't had time to get back with him yet but in theory I don't see why it wouldn't work like a sink trap in a way. The only thing I see maybe being an issue is the air the overflows suck to regulate the flow since the water flow has to do a 90 (2 45's) to get back up to the sump. Will all the bubbles create some sort of weird back pressure cutting uphill like that? Should I go from a 1.5 overflow drain to a 2" under the floor to help this? Also we didn't get to talk about how to actually get the water actually into the sump. Do some sort of bulkhead in the bottom of a tank and let the water just come up and in this manner then hit the bubble baffles over to the fuge/sump area. Have a separate sump and fuge tank? Or one huge tank divided? I have tons of room under the stairs and am having a drain and water line installed so plan on doing water changes and everything from under the steps. My 50 gallon barrel fits with lots of room to spare so I am very excited about using all this space if I can get the water over to it!! Any advise is much appreciated.
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I did follow the link though but was wondering why you linked basement stuff. I think its figured out now at least I hope so but any good recommendations for a return pump that will push the water back that far and up to the tank? I will need a pressure rated pump, right?
