Hey Greg looking good!!! Can't wait to see it in person! I have a few birdsnest frags I'll donate to your tank if your interested when ready.

Who wants to go for a swim?
 

Looks great ,You can snorkel in that tank.

:popcorn:

:pound:

Thanks Colin, come for a visit and check it out some time.


Gate valve update: they have been officially shipped today and hope they get here within a week, really iching to get some plumbing started.

whats the exact size of this monster?
unless i cant read that well.
just curious

96"L x 24"W x 30"H

Hows the tank getting illuminated? LED? (please say nooooooo!)

Why not? LEDs would be perfect for this size of tank as the cost savings in bulb replacements would be huge.

Why not is right, SW is expensive enough & I'm not replacing bulbs every 8 month.

It's getting my huge DIY LED that I built last yr.

Then I believe its going to be wicked :D

Basic run down of all the equipment that is going into this system

Lighting: my DIY Led's
Skimmer: Deltec 702 with Lg Davey Jones Locker
Controller: Profilux 3ex
Doser: Profilux 4 pump slave
Return Pumps: 4 - Waveline DC10000
Feed Pumps for chiller, skimmer & reactors: 2 - Waveline DC5000
Reactors: 3 - NextReef MR1
ATO: Tunze Osmolator
Chiller: SeaLine 1/2hp

I think (as your awesome friend) that some day you should build me DYI LED lights for my 80g and my 230g. I figure it would give you something to enjoy doing in your spare time :mrgreen::razz:

What is this thing you are referring to as spare time?

You have tons of it, you even posted pics of you lazing around in your tank, claiming to be cleaning it, but I think you were taking a nap!! :lol:

:lol: how did I know you would say that

:lol: Ah ha the truth comes out

I just read through this whole thread, and all I have to say is...

So how exactly are you plumbing the closed loop again?

Seriously though, I have massive, massive scratch repair envy. I might actually consider getting you to come out to my place at $100/hour to fix the scratches on my tank if they weren't all half way down on the inside. You did a stellar job.

You are going to get your limbs bitten off ;)

This

UPS showed up today ( a week before expected to boot ) with a box of goodies :biggrin: tuned to a :sad: when I seen they sent me threaded gate valves instead of slip. On the up side they sent me 2 extra 1 1/2" valves.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps4aed36fd.jpg

at least after you add all those threaded slip couplers you can reuse the gates.... -1 on the mis-ship...

Confused.... Reuse? :noidea:

I don't plan on adding any thread - slip couplers as that increases the chances of a leak so I'm simply going to remove the threads & make them slips that is unless they are going to ship me new ones for free.

holy crap man!....thats more valves than a water treatment plant!

My plan is to have complete control over the flow in every section of the tank.

how does one remove threads? i hate threaded!

Ask a mod they can remove all your threads.....lol j/k

If it was me I would use some sort of sanding drum or hole saw with sand paper attached to drill out the threads. I was able to just drill it out on 1/2" stuff but have never tried it on the larger scale

I use my die grinder with a metal bur bit, zips them out in seconds just have to be careful not to go to far or it will be to big to fit the pipe.

Just heard back from the supplier of my gate valves,they are sending me new ones out right away & don't want me to send them the threaded ones back :surprise: now that is customer service!!

Holy crap :O That's awesome. Now you can have double the control :D You might even be able to control valves with valves :D

Awesome!!! I like me some threaded gates. Might have to take some of those off your hands!

This thread needs a bump! PICTURESSSSSSSSS!

This project needs some progress first before pictures. Hope to start the plumbing this week now that I have the proper gate valves I ordered.

MOAR OMG PLZ.

Managed to get some of the overflow plumbing done tonight while I only had the complete use of one shoulder, stressed the right shoulder to much working & now it's EXTREMLY painful. Finish it up tomorrow night & take a few pics.

Ok so after a copious amount of pain dullers I managed to get 99.99% of my dual bean animal overflows dry fitted ( not glued yet ) just to make damn sure I have it te way I have in visioned. So enough yak yak yakin, here's some digital images.

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6aa5866c.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf0a62b4b.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5f5af7a8.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps43c96258.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps71b00905.jpg
http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...psb05b16f8.jpg

Look at the pipes on that thing....... Looks good bud

Wow Greg
That sure brings the build into perspective
I would love to have a coast to coast

Keep up the good work, when the body permits :smile:

Nice closed loop system, I'm loving the build so far keeping subscribed!

DAMN IT LEVI!!! Seriously dude.

just wait til the plumbing for the other two tanks gets down there!