Scott's 270 aka Project Mayhem

I haven't finished it yet. I will finish it when I get home on the 24th and take some pictures. Essentially I have 1 1/2" plumbing from the abyzz A200 -> a union with a 1 1/2" x 1 1/4" bushing -> 1 1/4" plumbing over the tank. Over each hole in the eurobrace I have a 1 1/4" x 3/4" bushing -> ~3" piece of 3/4" pipe -> 90º elbow with threaded end -> 3/4" locline valve -> locline outlet. Only downfall... once glued it won't be able to be taken apart without cutting. Threading everything is the other option, I'd rather glue.

I had to buy a 3 way LT and a 4 way LT from an online retailer to make some unique connections. I'm glad I ordered extra since the neck on the special parts were longer than normal T's and I have very limited head space. I needed to take the spare ones and cut the neck down so the bushing fit a little deeper into the fitting.

Easy peasy :(

I'm all about random flow! I will have 4 mp40's on my tank, as well as the abyzz A200 pumping through the returns. All in all, I can have ~16000 GPH. Combine that with the BK250 Double cone, I don't think oxygenation will be issue in my case :) Keeping the sand in the tank might though.
 
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How big where your holes on top of the tank in the euro bracing? I'm having mine cut for 1" schedule 80 bulkheads
 
Let there be updates!

It has begun! Damn is my RODI slow! I have the 100psi booster on there and it's still painfully slow.

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Return plumbing is 90% done. I just have to paint the 90's black and glue them in!

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So the valves on the returns are on the inside of the tank? Thanks for the pics BTW, they really help me.
 
tassod said:
So the valves on the returns are on the inside of the tank? Thanks for the pics BTW, they really help me.
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Yep. I have head room issues above the tank where the plumbing is so I couldn't put the valves outside of the tank. This was the best option I could come up with.

I would have located all of the plumbing aside from a couple links of localize outside of the tank if I could have. But with the black background on now you don't see the returns at all. I'm sure that will change when they get some coraline algae on them though. I will be looking at the corals and fish though"¦. not the returns :)
 
tonyda1st said:
this belongs in an episode of tanked.
nice job.
need to post more pics.
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Haahaa I don't know if that's a compliment or not :) I can get some more pictures in a couple days. I am going in for ACL reconstructive surgery today so I won't be running up and down the stairs for the next little while :(

Cheers,
Scott
 
Little update. I have to add some risers in the overflow box to keep the tank from draining down to the bottom of the weir teeth when the return pump shuts down. That overloads the sumps and ay too much water goes down the emergency drain. I think raising the overflow box level should fix that. What do you all think?

As for the baffle situation, I am hoping that the lower sump return pump adds enough volume to the pump chamber to reduce the distance the water drops from the frag section to the pump chamber. Maybe that will alleviate the bubbles, yes no? If not I tried holding some fluval foam just under the water level in the pump chamber and it dissipated the bubbles before they entered the chamber. If that's the way to go I need to make some sort of a foam holder that hangs on to the baffle edge.

I really won't know until I get my other pump running and see if the increase in pump chamber water height solves the bubbles.

What do you guys/gals think?
 
Scythanith said:
Haahaa I don't know if that's a compliment or not :) I can get some more pictures in a couple days. I am going in for ACL reconstructive surgery today so I won't be running up and down the stairs for the next little while :(

Cheers,
Scott
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Wish you the best on your surgery. If you haven't read my thread I had knee surgery in July and it took a little longer to recover because I decided to do tank things from boredom instead of taking it easy and slow. The knee is still a little weak and swells on occasion. Now my tank is in place I pretty much forgot about the knee. lolololol. Just be safe man.
 
This is my second ACL rebuild so I am taking it easy just like the first one. All I can do right now with the tank is read instructions and research some of my water flow problems.

I am on my cryocuff machine as I type this email haahaa!

Thanks for the concern!
 
First 12 hours of skimmate. The tank has ~190lbs of Walt Smith Fiji Ultra and Pukani. There was very little die off and some fun shapes. So now I am trying to get the Profilux up and running while the rock cures. I am running into issues with network connectivity right off the hop. Crappy.

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I think I have most of the connectivity bugs worked out. Time to tidy up the cords and start building some shelves for the reactors. I just quickly put up the modules for the profilux to get it all working. Now I will take it apart and put it more intelligent locations.

Cheers,
Scott
 
Another Profilux user helped me out. I didn't get any useful help from the GHL customer service. They just tell you to join up to GHL's www.aquariumcomputer.com and ask there. I won't lie it's been a bit of a challenge to program but I'm getting there with help from friends.

Another thing that sort of rubbed me the wrong way was I ordered the Mitras card when I ordered my Profilux system. I was told the first batch of cards stayed in Germany, so I wasn't going to get mine with the profilux…. ok, fine. I recently asked GHL again if the cards were ready and was told that there was a pre order in October for the cards, and they have since been shipped out I won't be getting one. I guess I was mistaken when I ordered a Mitras wireless card, that I thought I had ordered a card haahaa!

I run an Apple with parallels and windows XP. It does't have LPT/COM ports listed under the device manager so I am working through getting the ports to show up since the Mitras use a COM port to upload the lighting program. I have googled and googled but there doesn't seem to be a straightforward answer. This isn't GHL's issue! This is my issue. I have run GHL's installers but they haven't worked for my situation yet.
 
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