mightyevil
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Great job Willie! Everything looks great, That is a heck of a lot of snails running up and down those walls.
redtop03's 360 gallon plywood adventure
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redtop03
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15299304#post15299304 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MattShack
Looks really good. I want to get my epoxy in and get some water in mine. I'm getting impatient.
Those clowns are getting along good. Hopefully mine will play nice.
I'd say you are getting impatient,its aggravating to get a lot done and then have to wait for more money so you can move forward again....but you'll get-r-done soon....
I think the clowns will be OK in a tank the size you'll have,once each pair establishes their homes,they may never see each other again....
mightyevil
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15299359#post15299359 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by redtop03
I'd say you are getting impatient,its aggravating to get a lot done and then have to wait for more money so you can move forward again....but you'll get-r-done soon....
I think the clowns will be OK in a tank the size you'll have,once each pair establishes their homes,they may never see each other again....
I agree...I bet you'll have lots of eggs hatch without you noticing. Will they survive the predators? That is a different story but if your clowns are anything like Nemo's dad, then they'll be ok.
Aquarist007
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awesome progess Willie--impressive
redtop03
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thanks capn,its about wore me out,but I've enjoyed every minute
I'm still not satisfied with the plumbing yet....I was hoping one 1.5" drain would carry all the flow and the second would be a safety,but it has one drain flowing full and the other about half....had I known this from the beginning,I'd had 3 in it.....I didn't realize how strong the little giant pump would be......but it's working for now
I've got to finish the stand and wall,and still undecided how I want it,but I'll figure it out some day
troylee
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Red what kind of overflow are you using???? I'm sure its in the thread but my phone is to slow to search it lol.....I'm running beans system with three 1.5" drains the first is a full siphon the second I would say takes around 1000gph and the 3rd for a saftey....anyways I'm running a sequence dart for a return and have it wide open close to 2600gph after head loss and friction etc. And the drain is flawless and silent......just like bean designed it...I love it man.....
redtop03
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thats about what I have,but I didn't add the third,my first is valved back,its feeding the skimmers and the chaeto fuge,so its not really full flow,it's enough for the skimmers and the chaeto.....the rest is going to the second,its not really my overflow at fault....I just underestimated the little giants flow....my eheim 1262 is rated for about 900gph...the little giant is rated for 1325gph....I'm just guessing but I'd say it's double the output of the eheim 1262,with the head pressure that I have.......my 20g that I'm using for the chaeto has a 1.5" bulkhead but with no more drop than it has,it can't handle the flow with the drain valve opened up much more than I have it now....if it could handle more flow,I think the overflow would work much better....I may add another bulkhead to the 20g so I can open the valve more
troylee
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i think im miss understanding this lol.....your chateo should have clean water hitting it not the raw from the drain...now if you have the first conpartment in your sump filling with raw water from the tank and the skimmers pulling from that it is correct....but feeding the drain line into the skimmer will just cause you problems imo. let me look back threw your thread.....it's getting mighty long....
redtop03
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15301296#post15301296 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by troylee
your feeding the fuge and skimmer directly from the drain??? you will collect a alot of detrius in the fuge that way' and have poor skimming capabilities because the water fluctuates to much for the skimmer to run smooth.....imo...
I am feeding straight from the drain,my skimmers are designed that way,they're the aquamedic turbo floater 1000,and you are right,I'm getting a lot of detritus in the fuge and the water does fluctuate for a while,to the skimmers,after I start my pump back,after feeding..
redtop03
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no you've got it figured out
I have the skimmers in the first compartment in the sump,but the fuge is separate.......both the skimmers and the fuge are fed raw water from the same drain and the fuge is draining back into the skimmer section.....I can use extra pumps to feed the skimmers to stop the fluctuation but how can I send clean water to the fuge,couldn't I put a detritus trap,or maybe a filter sock in the fuge?
redtop03
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15301589#post15301589 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MattShack
I use a filter sock, but I get tired of cleaning it.
I think I'm going to try and design a settling chamber in the new sump so I can clean it a little easier.
do you have any reference pics of the settling chamber idea,I have filter socks,but I hate using 'em
MattShack
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I can't really find a good picture. I have some pictures in books.
It's even hard to describe. Think of a fairly large square bowl that water flows into the top of one side and out of the top on the other side. It needs to be big enough that the flow is fairly slow. The idea is the suspended stuff will settle to the bottom of that area. It can have a valve on the bottom to just drain out the muck or just siphon that part.
I did find some stuff to read about it online. I googled "aquarium settling chamber" found a Calfo article and a few others.
It's even hard to describe. Think of a fairly large square bowl that water flows into the top of one side and out of the top on the other side. It needs to be big enough that the flow is fairly slow. The idea is the suspended stuff will settle to the bottom of that area. It can have a valve on the bottom to just drain out the muck or just siphon that part.
I did find some stuff to read about it online. I googled "aquarium settling chamber" found a Calfo article and a few others.
MattShack
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I just went back and looked at your fuge. If you put baffles around the pipe where the water goes into your fuge like you did for the overflow on the bulkhead. Maybe cut the pipe a little bit shorter (its hard to tell how long it is in the pic) so it's only about halfway down. It should work as a settling chamber to keep the stuff in just that area of the fuge. You just don't want too much turbulance in the settling chamber. Did I make any sense???
redtop03
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15301872#post15301872 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MattShack
I just went back and looked at your fuge. If you put baffles around the pipe where the water goes into your fuge like you did for the overflow on the bulkhead. Maybe cut the pipe a little bit shorter (its hard to tell how long it is in the pic) so it's only about halfway down. It should work as a settling chamber to keep the stuff in just that area of the fuge. You just don't want too much turbulance in the settling chamber. Did I make any sense???
makes sense :thumbsup: the pipe needs cut,it was a scrap piece that just happened to fit
....in my old filter system,I had a 4" pipe with a cap on the bottom end,and had holes drilled in the 4" pipe about half way up,and had rock rubble in the bottom to keep it from floating,it worked kinda like what you are talking about....but,I was using it to hold my filter sock,I didn't always run the sock and it would get a lot of junk trapped in it,it was easy to remove for cleaning though.....I may rig something like that up for this filter system,that way I can use the socks if I want to,or see a need to
redtop03
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15301880#post15301880 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by troylee
If you can have the drains from the skimmers feed the fuge that's what I have planned...so there's no extra pumps....haven't plumbed it yet but I will soon..
that would be difficult for me to do now,but would be cleaner water for sure....I've always thought that the chaeto liked fast flowing water....mine seems to like it,its growing well....thats why I fed it strait from the drain,that way I could control the water flow as well
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