Tylers ~300Gal System Build. *The epic failure*

zum14 · #1 08-18-2010, 04:29 PM

Brick wall! No plumbing shops in town have slip fit bulkhead fittings. All threaded. Looks like an online order to delay me. Damn. Going to try for the glass for the overflow. That shouldnt be too bad. Haha.....shouldnt.

whatcaneyedo · #2 08-19-2010, 12:04 AM

Karen has two extra 1-1/2" bulkheads from J&L http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/pl...1+2%22%29.html that she doesnt need and will probably sell. If you want her contact information I can find it for you. While you're ordering bulkheads you might want to grab some gate valves if you're going to need any of those... as no one in town sells them either. I think you can at least get true union ball valves at Andrew Sherrit. If you think I might have any plumbing bits leftover that you could use you're welcome to come scavenge through my extras. Actually I'm probably going to bring most of those up to Allans if he will take them for his store.

whatcaneyedo · #3 08-19-2010, 03:24 AM

I was just visiting Allan to see how his new project is coming along and he has a small selection of bulkheads including 1".

zum14 · #4 08-19-2010, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I was just visiting Allan to see how his new project is coming along and he has a small selection of bulkheads including 1".

Thanks. Ill have to email him. Do you happen to know if either karens or allans are threaded on the inside? There are lots in town at corestock or andrew sherrit but all they have is inside threaded. I need inside slip so I can remove the spray bars and clean/replace them as they get algaed up. They suggested adapters but if I go that route the spray bars will be 4" off the bottom. Ill probably end up ordering them from bulkreefsupply as they have the mesh for the top I want to build and have valves and such as well (thanks for that reminder, there really is nothing in this town for that stuff. Its fun to watch people look at you funny when you tell them what your building) The other thing is in town they will be like 10-15$ each bulkhead too vs 5$ on brs.

whatcaneyedo · #5 08-19-2010, 04:29 AM

Karen's two are the ones shown in the link that I posted and you'll have to ask Allan what he has because I didn't see them all.

zum14 · #6 08-23-2010, 01:39 AM

Update. So I got some glass for my euro bracing and coast to coast. I now know why people in prince don't build tanks. It was $150 for the glass. Overflow on bottom and euro on top.

So I started to clean the top of the tank with the plastic trim off and i found something interesting. Can anyone else see the problem???

Yaa.... not so impressed. Good thing its not the show tank. He said it was a hagen. I don't know. He didn't look like he had the ability to do this to the tank and he said it held water. Good thing its in a basement and I WILL be water testing first now with a little more discomfort. But what am I going to do now. Not much. I need to get this tank set up as were renoing the room my current tank is in and its holding up work. No kitchen and dirty reno'd house makes wife something something....... So pressed on with work. Got the diamond coated burrs and cleaned up the overflows. No sharp edges and corners now. (please dont mind the sharpie marks. not sure what happend there. too many before starting that job.)

And then glued up the overflow box.

I realized the glass braces are probably overkill but I dont do too many things underkill so in they went. They were only like $10 in the end. Plan is for eurobracing to be glued in tomorrow and seal up the overflow box. Then its just a matter of waiting on the bulkheads. No one seems to use full inside slip bulkheads, or even a slip on the tank side. Oh well. Im getting used to things going sideways on this project.

zum14 · #7 08-26-2010, 06:04 AM

So.... a little bit of bad news. Had to throw the closed loop system back to the drawing board for now. Just too many things to still figure out with it and due to time constraints I had to get the tank setup so I can move my current one. Sucks but oh well. I told my wife I would have to set up another tank between this one and my big ones and shes ok with that so who can complain. I got the overflow sealed up and got the tank sitting in my basement in my fishroom. Sorry please dont mind the walls and the little dirty feeder tank for my freshwater gar. Everything is in the middle of the room so I can work on the walls around them.

I know lots of guys dont like hardlines to the pumps but this its not noisy and I will tweek everything later. Same with the valves on the drains for the herbie. Ill get them and I have a way of shutting water off to one pipe at a time and plumb the valve in later. One of my concerns was that there is a center brace on the plastic trim (I know what your thinking. What happend to the euro bracing. Well lets just say there were some select words used and we will be buying a tank with that already done. Probably not as complicated as I was making it but it just wasnt working) Anywho. I figured I would use two of the pendants. I hung them quite high as I really dont want to nuke my tank and im also worried about the shock from going from T5's to 400W metal halides. So I will run them high and one on at first then work to both then work at finding a good height from the tank. Please again dont mind the wires. I plan on taking care of that too. Here is one pendant on with no water.

Here is both pendants on with no water.

So then today I filled er up and tested for leaks. None so far. Going to let it run for a night then if all good. Drain, quick wipe down, and fill with salt. Heres the tank with water in it both pendants on. Still a bit of condensation from cold water.

Overflow height. Will tweek this when I get the valves in so it will be running probably about 2" higher when im done.

Then heres with the night lights. Might be a bit bright. Not sure yet.

Oh and please excuse the nice heart on the front. I didnt catch that my wife had done that till I had loaded the pics on the computer. Funny thing is when I showed her this all excited she just shrugged and walked away. Totally doesnt care. In her words its a tub full of water with an ugly light over it and a bunch of ugly pipes. Oh well she still lets me do it so.

kien · #8 10-06-2010, 10:03 AM

Coming along nicely! Your plumbing is quite sophisticated!

zum14 · #9 10-06-2010, 05:23 PM

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Coming along nicely! Your plumbing is quite sophisticated!

Woooowww. Kien commented on my tank! Neat. Thanks anyways but I think I just seem to have a nack for making things that are simple look overly complicated. Its a skill I picked up early in my life according to my father.