250 Gallon Starphire tank

littlesilvermax · #1 10-04-2006, 12:57 PM

Close-up.

littlesilvermax · #2 10-04-2006, 12:58 PM

I forgot how small this guy was when I first got him.

littlesilvermax · #3 10-04-2006, 12:58 PM

littlesilvermax · #4 10-04-2006, 12:59 PM

These guys are destined to grow.

littlesilvermax · #5 10-10-2006, 12:55 AM

One more flow vid.

Nice to have a little bit of euro bracing to stop the flow from splashing over the tank sides.

Vid

littlesilvermax · #6 10-11-2006, 12:59 AM

Pic of my skimmer waste container, IO 200 gallon pail.

I have a toilet plunger inside that has some styrofoam attached to it to allow auto-shut-off. This worked well, but if the skimmer ever filled the pail the shut-off would cause soo much back-pressure on the skimmer that it would lift up and move everything in my frag section of my sump.

The solution was to add a 10 inch long pvc pipe to the input of the pail. Once the pail was filled 65% of the way the pipe would be submerged and cause the skimmer to slow down considerably, but not stop. Then the fuler it gets the slower the skimmer goes, so it hasn;t been a problem now for over 2 years.

littlesilvermax · #7 10-11-2006, 01:00 AM

What is this, new pump?

Yep for a calcium restor.

littlesilvermax · #8 10-28-2009, 04:12 AM

Sadly this tank will be up for sale in the next couple of months. We will be moving in the months/year ahead.

If anyone wants an exceptionally built tank w/ real Maple cabinetry, let me know.

It will likely be a number of years til I have another tank.

littlesilvermax · #9 02-04-2010, 04:41 PM

Tank is for sale here. I may be able to help move it to some ares in Saskatchewan.

FS - BEAUTIFUL 250 Gallon Starphire tank and stand for sale

littlesilvermax · #10 10-04-2006, 12:59 PM

Waky waky.