Totally new EVERYTHING (including building) tank build
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paulmartin
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Someone help this guy!!
actually wound up breaking my thumb today and am trying to type slowly...
my chiller is a custom sea life 1/3 hp
Main pump into tank is a iwaki walchem
115volts 1.9 amps
little giant
115v, 60hz, 1.9 amps
and the one to the chiller is a gen x water pump..
115v60 hz 1,2 amps..
aetch evolution 750 skimmer
Precision marine calcium reactor
3 blue line ballasts that run 3 400 wt 20k mhs..
anything else i need include?
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my chiller is a custom sea life 1/3 hp
Main pump into tank is a iwaki walchem
115volts 1.9 amps
little giant
115v, 60hz, 1.9 amps
and the one to the chiller is a gen x water pump..
115v60 hz 1,2 amps..
aetch evolution 750 skimmer
Precision marine calcium reactor
3 blue line ballasts that run 3 400 wt 20k mhs..
anything else i need include?
d
sfsuphysics
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I'd do a 20amp circuit just for the lights
a 20amp circuit just for the chiller stuff
and 20 amps for everything else.
In fact if it were really up to me, I'd pull a secondary junction box into the room with a 100amp capacity, then branch your circuits off that. So that I could expand in the future if necessary. Of course that depends what your current junction box has as a capacity. But I'm sure any electrician can fix it up the way you want.
a 20amp circuit just for the chiller stuff
and 20 amps for everything else.
In fact if it were really up to me, I'd pull a secondary junction box into the room with a 100amp capacity, then branch your circuits off that. So that I could expand in the future if necessary. Of course that depends what your current junction box has as a capacity. But I'm sure any electrician can fix it up the way you want.
electritian is coming at 4 today.. i'll let you know what he says..
weird side question.. i was digging around under the tank last night and the back wall has lots and lots of broken chunks of salt that have broken off from the salt creep on the back.. is this normal? how do people who have big tanks keep it from happening in their homes? I never see it in a TOTM... just looks messy..
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weird side question.. i was digging around under the tank last night and the back wall has lots and lots of broken chunks of salt that have broken off from the salt creep on the back.. is this normal? how do people who have big tanks keep it from happening in their homes? I never see it in a TOTM... just looks messy..
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question... the closet that is full of crap...
it is a hot water closet. Would most people put their skimmer, calk reactor, pumps, etc, inside a room like that and run pipe into a sump under the tank? and then lines back into the tank? Seems that it would slow down the flow because of the distance to travel..
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it is a hot water closet. Would most people put their skimmer, calk reactor, pumps, etc, inside a room like that and run pipe into a sump under the tank? and then lines back into the tank? Seems that it would slow down the flow because of the distance to travel..
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sfsuphysics
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While it is true that distance will dampen the flow a bit, a simple 90° elbow will drop it quite a bit more than running through 10 feet of pipe.
Also I'm never a big fan of enclosing tank stuff without having proper ventilation (including inside of a stand). Too much of a chance for mold & mildew from the humidity that builds up.
As to the salt thing, yeah it happens, watch where water runs over the edge (overflow, sump baffles etc), wherever it goes from one medium into another (return to tank, skimmer output, overflow output) etc, it builds up over time. As Gavin mentioned wipe it down regularly.
Also I'm never a big fan of enclosing tank stuff without having proper ventilation (including inside of a stand). Too much of a chance for mold & mildew from the humidity that builds up.
As to the salt thing, yeah it happens, watch where water runs over the edge (overflow, sump baffles etc), wherever it goes from one medium into another (return to tank, skimmer output, overflow output) etc, it builds up over time. As Gavin mentioned wipe it down regularly.
I would put my ro/di filter in there. You can hook it up to your cold side of the hot water heater. That is how I have mine. As far as the other stuff, if it fits use it. As far as the distance to travel, you would just have to get a bigger pump to go the extra distance.
Gavin
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