300g upgrade

[i have crabs]

once the old tank was clean and dry i got bow vally to cut me some glass to make it into a sump wich i did my self while learing that im just gonna pay people for this service now on.


it turned out good but my silicone skills are not good.

so now it took a good 2 months untill i could trick some friends to come over and get some suction cups borrowed but i got the tank and the sump put in the stand.

so what do i see? oh im to stupid to measure where the bulk heads fit so if you look the bulk head would hit the 2x6. luckly that 2x6 wasnt really doing much thie any way so i just chisled the one edge so i could slip in the bulkhead.
to make myself feel better i went and bought 2 euro reef 250rs skimmers. one for this tank and one for my reef tank.

[i have crabs]

plumbing for the drain





how i have it set up is that 1 drain in each overflow is ran through the 1.5 union valve and the 2 standpipes are hooked together for back up if a drain clogs or something.
then all 3 returnd are run to bulkheads in a lid on the left side keeping the sump closed off and very quiet.

[i have crabs]

now the return is run over the back into 1" bulk heads in the eurobrace. problem with that is either i didnt think of a very large euro brace blocking off my overflows of wendle didnt think of building a bug enough overflow for a guy with massive pipes to stick his hand into while 80% is covered by eurobracing. either way i dont care if its a problem ill just rebuild again sofar not a big deal.
return plumbing


once i had everything hooked up and filled with water i was having a problem with the water only going into the left side overflow and not any going into the right, befor putting the tank on the stand i checked if it was level and i thought it was but mabey i was playing to much saintsrow on xbox that day or mabey it was my 4' level on a 8 foot stand either way i wasnt draining 300g of water and moving the tank.

what i did was cut up some eggcrate

and siliconed it to the overflow

you cant tell its thier and when the water flows over it goes in both over flow at the same time and hasnt been a problem since.


here a skimmer running in a garbage can of dirty water for a week before putting it in the tank.



after that i slowly started adding fish once cycled with floss and sponges from other tanks i own.

right now thier are the 2 leaflip groupers,the large blackspot grouper a large panther grouper,a large red snapper and a yellow tang. ive had problems adding other fish once the snapper and black grouper settled in the run the show and have killed or close to killed a few new fish i tried to add so i think im stuck these fish for a while unless i go through some major steps to get more fish added without aggresion issues

now im just waiting for my fish buget to increase so i can add some good lights and some vortec powerheads.
and mabey get off my rear and finish the outside of the stand oneday

[Delphinus]

Sheeesh, some ghetto. What's worse than ghetto? Cuz that's what I would be. This is a very nice start.

No seriously if you call this "ghetto" one more time then someone needs to smack you

Very very nice BTW!

[Zylumn]

Is there a getto in Calgary???? Hey this was too funny but really nice job. It sounded similar to my last build just plus a whole bunch of gallons.

Kevin

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Looks great!

Hey, I've worked in the ghetto...and I don't think you could find much laying around...except maybe used needles and hoodrats blitzed on E

[Skimmer Juice]

Looks great corn dog. Your snapper is way to big.