280g Inwall

Rbacchiega · #1 10-21-2010, 05:05 PM

hmmmm weird....normal flex hose then?

Delphinus · #2 10-21-2010, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Rbacchiega

hmmmm weird....normal flex hose then?

Maybe. The annoying thing is that the input to the skimmer is 1-1/4". To switch to anything else I'd need to buy a SCH80 union and thow away most of it and just use the one piece with a different size adapter. I could go this way and stick with 1" line since the pump puts out way more flow than needed anyhow but I was thinking if I ever replaced the Mak4 with something a little more miserly I may want the bigger tubing to restrict flow less. I guess I'm overthinking this, that's a problem that doesn't exist right now and I should only worry about if/when that day comes.

I'm going to look for some 1-1/4" vinyl tubing, if that's easy enough to get, then it's just a relatively easy swapout.

Rbacchiega · #3 10-21-2010, 05:21 PM

pretty sure they'd have it at home depot...in the plumbing/bath area methinks

Delphinus · #4 10-21-2010, 05:27 PM

I hope so. I know that they have 1-1/2" but I hate that stuff. It's enormous and unless you get the reinforced kind it doesn't keep its round cross section and so on. I should just move to 1" and replace both unions at the end and call it done. What's another $30 (or whatever) at this point ..

lastlight · #5 10-21-2010, 08:24 PM

I really hate the vinyl stuff. I am using it only because there was none of the re-enforced stuff which stays round in stock. And all this because I wanted quick and dirty when I did my return pump swap which meant no pvc.

So Tony you're saying you trust your cube to a heater thermostat or what's in use there?

Rbacchiega · #6 10-21-2010, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

I wanted quick and dirty

That's what she said...c'mon Brett, you're making it too easy (also what she said)

Delphinus · #7 10-21-2010, 09:03 PM

Bazinga?

lastlight · #8 10-21-2010, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Rbacchiega

That's what she said...c'mon Brett, you're making it too easy (also what she said)

You just 'she saided' what she previously said. I'm calling the shop up and asking to speak with the boss I think someone's slackin' today

Delphinus · #9 10-21-2010, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

So Tony you're saying you trust your cube to a heater thermostat or what's in use there?

Missed this earlier, sorry - but yes just a basic Ebo or something in there currently. Sort of goes back to the whole "it wasn't supposed to be this long" thing in the first place - was only meant as a temporary thing (this tank also originally had a ... I forget the brand name, it wasn't Won Bros, for a heater controller but it was something similar, it failed and starting reading these weird alien symbols instead of numbers). Anyhow other thing though is that the heater in there is kind of small, if it got stuck-on my "hope" is that it doesn't have the ability to overheat the tank anyhow. Luckily between the room temp, the lights and the pumps it doesn't have much work to do anyhow. It's actually a pretty low tech tank. I just use a floating glass thermometer in the sump to measure temp. Every so often I'll go looking for it and have to peel off a layer of feather dusters to take a reading.