Updated pics of the tank

[SuperFudge]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Traitor

Heh, Awww thanks Brad, I somehow just knew deep down inside you would understand.

Thanks all, It was a pretty daunting project as a whole, but now that im down to the tinkering, im starting to really enjoy it.

Thanks Christy, yeah it was a mess of plumbing in there...the few i showed during that phase spit out thier coffee aswell

Tony, I have increments marked on the resevoir, and if you have a look at the sump pic in that thread youll see a pvc pipe that sticks down into the water...with a peice of styro around it...this pipe also has increments drilled in it.
Then i have done a conversion on the sump and reseviour to find out what each of these increments equals in gallons.
So now when i do a water change i just watch the float go down 50 gal(or whatever the waterchange may be)
And feed in from the reseviour the same using its increments.
This has made water changes a breeze in this system, if i dont need to siphon, i just open a valve and spit out 50 gal, close it and open one on the reseviour and spit in 50 gal..takes 10 mins.

Ill post a little closer look at it for you tommorow Tony.

Beverly, i will post a few soon of the views...i just figured its kinda ugly right now with all the putty and junk still on there.

lol Rich, i told you your welcome over anytime.. gimme a shout.

Ill post some more of how the rockwork was done in the next day or two, in a little more detail.

Thanks alot guys, Marc.

[SuperFudge]

wow, thank you guys

Crabs, Yeah you are crazy jk, no there are no sunrise sunset settings, just staggered on off settings.

I originally wanted to put flow through the pipes, but decided it wasnt needed after all the holes were in.
Yes, i think thats a good idea on tank with not enouph flow.

Muck, anytime your out in these woods....gimme a shout.

Thanks all. Marc.

[muck]

Originally Posted by Fudge

Muck, anytime your out in these woods....gimme a shout.

Oh... you can count on it.

Are you in Chilliwack itself or Sardis area?

[SuperFudge]

Sardis....the better side of the bridge i like to tell myself

[muck]

hehe.. closer to Cultus too.

[Delphinus]

I was wondering what was up with that pipe. Yes please do snap a few more pics of that when you get a chance. Thanks very much!

[monza]

Very nice! Love the over flow set up.

DAve

[SuperFudge]

Hi all,

I added some photo`s to the thread here, sorry to link it.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...5&pagenumber=2


Sorry Tony that i took so long to get a better pic, but here you go..


All i do is look at the # before i start pumping water out.

In the resivour, i didnt want to run 2 pumps, so i came up with a way around it.


Part of the problem for me was that the water from the res. to the tank had to cross a doorway, so my option was over the door, or under.
Under was the only real way that i wanted to see that, but i didnt know what to do with the water that would stay in the piping after a change.
In a week i would guess it woulda went stagnant.

So i came up with this

Now when the water change is done, i open the little blue valve,wich is connected to the intake of the mixing pump, and it pulls the water out of the plumbing via a veturi.

Works better than i had hoped, but now i just need to upsize the pump to a mag 7 or 9, that way it doesnt take so long to drain it.

Marc.

[SuperFudge]

Hi all,

Thought id bump, ive updated a fair amount of stuff.

Enjoy http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=686757

Marc.

[OCDP]

That's insane... you have yourself one hell of a setup. Simply amazing!