Great Start

I need to be clear headed 24/7, I never know when the phone will ring from one of my customers with an emergency so it is never going to happen, you enjoy the herbs it's not for me.

The life of being on call!I know it well....Stupid phone...Good thing my rates are ridiculous after hours.

I'm with you, I like the challenge of plumbing.

Heck? Grizz. If u were closer man we would tackle that beast and plumb. It
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Well managed to get all the plumbing dry fitted down the the gate valves. All that's left is to drill a few holes in my sump for the return pumps & plumb from the pumps to the gate valves.


Stay clear..... this Bear bites off limbs!!

Plumbing pics!!!!

After dry fitting all the returns I removed the drain lines to better access the returns to glue them up.

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Then proceeded to glue all the returns except the 1 inch gate valves as I want to do a little adjustment to them.

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Ordered my new skimmer last week from Ray @ Reef Supplies, should get here in the next 2 weeks ( I hope )

Reef Octopus Pro SSS-DC3

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All righty then here we go with a small update...........

Lined the bottom & back with the same material used for shower surrounds......

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Drilled 3 holes in each end of my sump tank for the pumps and put in the bulkheads & slide it under the tank. There are no baffles yet as Im waiting for my skimmer to arrive on the 15th.............

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Installed 1st return pump & plumbed it the the second set of return holes from the left, all dry fit ATM. From the pump is a 1 1/2" swing check valve, then a 1" SCWD, a few 45* elbows, a union, gate valve and a few more 45* elbows ........

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Second return pump plumbed to the first set of return holes from the left......

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Gate valves on the inside of the bulkheads so close off the flow if I need to service the pumps........

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Right side pumps plumbed same as the left side just not finished due to the fact I ran out of 45* elbows and so did my supplier so I have to find 11 more to finish the return pump plumbing & still have a little tweaking to do......

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Full view with the drain lines finished with each of the main lines running to the sump separately except for the emergency drains......

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HOLY MOLY!It's coming to life!nice job!