smoothdog
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It hasn't frozen over yet but it's getting a little chillier in hell, the basement sump is on the way in. For those that don't know, I've been planning to move my sump to the basement for about 3 years now, even bought the pump for it way back then. Well time being fleeting, I never really got around to clearing out the space for it and such.
Cut to a couple of months ago, we decided to put new flooring in the family room where the tank is, so since I have to take the tank down to put the floors in I thought it would be a good time to upgrade the tank and finally get that basement sump area built.
Tank will be a Marineland 150 Deep Dimension. Picked up Vspeck's old 6ft. 100g tank from reefer96 and will be converting it to a sump/fuge. Frag tanks and equipment will be on the top of the basement stand and will be fed from a manifold coming off the main pump, a Panworld 200PS. I will be building a custom stand and hood for the tank once I get the floors put in since I didn't like the height of the factory built stand.
The sump stand is built and the waterproofing paint should be here tomorrow. I've installed catch rails around the stand edges to catch any inadvertent spills and will install drains so if there should ever be any flooding incidents it should not make it to the floor unless it's a catastrophic failure.
DSC_1400.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr
DSC_1403.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr
Cut to a couple of months ago, we decided to put new flooring in the family room where the tank is, so since I have to take the tank down to put the floors in I thought it would be a good time to upgrade the tank and finally get that basement sump area built.
Tank will be a Marineland 150 Deep Dimension. Picked up Vspeck's old 6ft. 100g tank from reefer96 and will be converting it to a sump/fuge. Frag tanks and equipment will be on the top of the basement stand and will be fed from a manifold coming off the main pump, a Panworld 200PS. I will be building a custom stand and hood for the tank once I get the floors put in since I didn't like the height of the factory built stand.
The sump stand is built and the waterproofing paint should be here tomorrow. I've installed catch rails around the stand edges to catch any inadvertent spills and will install drains so if there should ever be any flooding incidents it should not make it to the floor unless it's a catastrophic failure.
DSC_1400.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr
DSC_1403.JPG by ksw2005, on Flickr