Polywise's 300 glass reef with equipment room

[polywise]

Here is a picture of the stand and canopy in process. The stand is 40" tall

 

[polywise]

I stopped by the cabinet makers shop to take a look at the build, and to match up the stain color to go with other wood that is in the room that the tank will be in. We look to be about 3 weeks away from delivery
Here are a few pics.

 

[shazeone]

looking awesome. i wold stick with halides and vho supp. go with radiums and watch the coral grow like weeds.

 

[polywise]

view with stand panels

 

[albano]

Looking REAL GOOD, Jim...might have water in it before Christmas!!!!:bounce2:

 

[nuccadoc]

Great to see you continuing on your build! Your stand and canopy looks great!

 

[polywise]

Big post set up concern - the filling of 300 gallons of RODI. I doubt it will be ready by Christmas.

 

[aquaph8]

The wood work looks really nice Jim. Looking forward to seeing it stained.

 

[polywise]

getting a bit closer...

 

[launchnukes]

The stand is looking great! As a fellow dd owner, ill be tagging along.

 

[polywise]

Launchnukes,
Do you have any shadowing issues with the tank's bracing?
I am going to be doing MH on the tank as well.

 

[natesreef]

This tank is gonna be sick!

 

[polywise]

Hey thank nates reef !
I hope it will be too.

 

[J.P.Reef]

The stand looks great. I have the exact tank w/ center overflow. We conversed a few months ago. I don't know if you remember me. I'm running MH's also with 4 72" VHO's and I don't have any shadow issues. Are you going to run 250's or 400's?

 

[launchnukes]

Launchnukes,
Do you have any shadowing issues with the tank's bracing?
I am going to be doing MH on the tank as well.

Im running 3 250w mh and 4 54w t5. There isn't really any shadowing. If you looked for it you can see where the braces are but its not bad. My fts on my build thread make it look worse than it is.

 

[polywise]

these are left and right end shots of my old 280 that got cooked while I was on vaction. (preventing this from happening again this time around)

 

[polywise]

I missed the end of year target to get this up and running
I am now hoping to get the set up in my house for January.

I did, however, do something rather cool. I did a four hour retrofit plumbing project on my grow out system. A few month's back I modified one of my ocean-motions.
(I have a toolroom with cnc's, lathe, and manual milling machines) I had my toolmaker make a custom 1.25" bushing to eliminate the barbed one that attaches to the unit. Then he bored the ID to the largest possible without interfering with the products function/design. This modified unit now puts out more water volume than when I had the (4) units hooked up in the corners. I actually now have to choke it back a bit to prevent overflowing the tank.

 

[Bcamp]

Good idea, can we see a pic of the mods?

 

[polywise]

Bcamp,
I never took pics of the modification, only once it was on my system. The OM is mounted on top of a 2" pipe.

I will try to take some pics when I do the next mod. I have 7 more units to mod, and they will be used on my 300DD, in a closed loop set up.

 

[Bcamp]

OK, have a 300DD also and always lookin to tinker with stuff!
Thanks