My new tank. - UPDATED

[whaase]

I had to set this up in 3 days. I made a deal for some sand and rock, but only have a certian amount of time to do this.

Front of tank shot. I really hope it clears up soon! The tank is a 90g, built into a wall in the basement. The rear of the tank is in the laudry room.

http://members.shaw.ca/whadmin/tank.jpg

The rear of the tank. I put 4 ODNO lights on for now(2 - 50/50, 1 - actinic, 1 - 6500k Daylight. I have 2-250w MH yet to go on.

http://members.shaw.ca/whadmin/reartank.jpg

My sump. I had a 20g tank, so I used it. I flooded the floor last night while filling it with R/O water. Note to self: Never leave a 20g filling while you are sleeping

http://members.shaw.ca/whadmin/sump.jpg

Here is my soaker tub and cabinets. Cabinets I got from HD. My wife works there and is always getting deals on clearence I'm trying to get the skimmer to work. Maybe a mag5 will run it properly.

http://members.shaw.ca/whadmin/backoftank.jpg

Anyways, I'm done rambling, anyone have any donations, please send them to me.

Walter

[Canadian Man]

Looking good Walter!

Nice to see you finially have a tank that's full of salt water!

[kuatto]

I like the in wall idea How did you plumb your sump?Looks easy.what did you use for the overflow?

Jim

[whaase]

Originally Posted by kuatto

I like the in wall idea How did you plumb your sump?Looks easy.what did you use for the overflow?

Jim

Plumbing was the easy part. The overflow is a Tidepool SOS. I used a piece of hose that came with it, and used fitting to go to PVC, a few elbo's and done. I really want to drill this tank (and I will) so I can get more flow. This overflow is good, but limited to 600gph, plus, I don't trust overflows! I just didn't have time to order the bit and drill it.

Walter

[whaase]

Originally Posted by Canadian Man

Looking good Walter!

Nice to see you finially have a tank that's full of salt water!

Thanks, Hopfully I can see through it soon! There is some Bluelegged crabs in there somewhere! They were left over from Incoma, so he gave them to me. I hope they are still alive. When the 'dust settles' I'll set up the rock, for now I just dropped it in, could not see a thing

Walter

[LostMind]

hmmm, looks good in the wall

Are you going to paint the back of the tank so no one can see the equip? thats what I would do...

[whaase]

Originally Posted by LostMind

hmmm, looks good in the wall

Are you going to paint the back of the tank so no one can see the equip? thats what I would do...

Well, I don't want to paint the tank. I want to be able to see from behind. So, I thought I would get some 1/8 lucite (acrylic) and paint that. Then use velcro along the sides and back, that way it will be easy to remove when I have to.

[whaase]

Here is a pictures after the dust settled. I was trying to arange the rocks, but the dust kicked up again so bad I couldn't see what I was doing. This is wat was there when the dust settled again.I have 75lbs of tufa rock to add yet, so I hope it will fill up a bit I also noticed some tracks accress the sand, so the crabs survived.

http://members.shaw.ca/whadmin/settletank.jpg

Walter

[ltay]

Nice tank.... keep up the hard work..

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by whaase

Here is a pictures after the dust settled. I was trying to arange the rocks, but the dust kicked up again so bad I couldn't see what I was doing.

Walter

yup this will happen for a while untill the sand becoms laddin with bacteria.. mine is clear with in a hour when I am farting around in there now.

I do see one problem with your set up.. you need to put some seran wrap over the tank and get that wood above it painted with a varnish or polyurathain to water proof it or it will warp on you and start rotting. if it warps right the force might be enuf to push on your tank wall and crack it.

I would even cote the wood under the tank and the stand if you havent already done so. I had a little block of wood above mine that was untreated and the salt creap caused dammage in just 2 months.

Steve