dear journal,here we go again-200g build: to be continued.....on to new dreams:)

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by reefwars

haha thats what the rum will do to ya bye lol

Ha ha! You crazy East coasters!

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by ALang

Quick! We need a tank warming party at your house!

im thinking im gonna host a aquascape party when im ready for my rock to go in i have alot of nice unique pieces including tonga branch and jakarta and fiji so maybe after new years ill invite everyone over

[reefwars]

ok well i got to filling the tank thius morning and no leaks in the display but a small pinhole leak in one of my oveflow drains in the bulkhead , i couldnt help but think of how much damage it would do to have it break.....lucky me i guess after i fix the leak im gonna get my sump and herbie tuned up a bit and then ill let it sit for a few days and get to working on the lights and building up some salt water i guess its gonnba be alot of water changes for the ol zoa tank and we will see how it likes the clean water



heres some pics to prove i still have a lkiving room floor

















wish me luck washing a bit of ol sand here today

[reefwars]

so i got my sump up and running , leak is fixed .....im very proud of myself for doing the herbie overflow and getting it on the first shot its amazing at how quiet it really is aside from my return pumps vibrations its the only noise thats being made also glad i held out and found the gatevalve i needed as its quite sensitive to tune durso standpipe emergency is working greaty as well and when the power goers out im still left with about half my sump for insurance sweet

[bignose]

Hey Denny I have a question for you. Your return lines seem low to me, when your pump is turned off all the water above the return will flow to your sump. Do you have enough room in your sump to hold all that water? I've seen your tank and that's a lot of water you wouldn't want on your floor!

*edit* Never seen the answer in your own post.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by bignose

Hey Denny I have a question for you. Your return lines seem low to me, when your pump is turned off all the water above the return will flow to your sump. Do you have enough room in your sump to hold all that water? I've seen your tank and that's a lot of water you wouldn't want on your floor!

*edit* Never seen the answer in your own post.

o yeah big sump lol so when the power goes out im filling about half my sump i have it set so my main drains are about three inches from my durso and both are working fine and ive been shutting the power off alot to see if anything changes so basically every five inches of display height is about 50 gallons so im down around 3 inches and pointing slightly up.

my sump is 80 gallons so after 40-50 gallons spill in in still just past half now i dont want to fill it either as it would be pushing it by how thick the glass is


all this was done not including my refuge or frag tank which isnt hooked up to the display at all

[reefwars]

after adding some padding under my pumps ive reduced the noise almost to nothing but im still not happy lol i want no noise what so ever not even a single splash , as it turns out my return pump is silent and the noise im getting is from my skimmer pump not the vibrations but the running noise itself i dont have any doors on the back yet so its hard to tell if ill hear it when they are on but for now im on a mission


also im working on the light ring today im gonna get it mounted to my ceiling and hopefully get some pendants mounted thats if i got everything i need its so easy to forget something when your runnning around and me like a retard got salt for 200g as i had a little bit but didnt take into account for my sump while i was grabbing things so now im short on salt and here doing all the math on my tanks and how much water they can run off lol

also i now have the stand ready for paint if i can get enough time today ill get to working on that too and have it finished in a few days for trim lucky i work doing renos so far the complete stand hasnt cost me a thing its all been from left over jobs unlike my last stand which i had a hard time even walking after buying the materials lol






*****upon closer inspection my returns are only about an inch below thats just from the pics as i was filling and didnt want a syphon sorry*****

[reefwars]

here are some pics taken this morning and last night sorry for the quality its a very crappy camera untill the misses comes home




































and for those who didnt think i would get my helper over washing sand heres the proof lol its the worst job he said he ever had to do thats sand from 3 different set ups it was quick washed and stored in bins i made him do a good job too lol all i had to pay him was lunch and a few drinks while he was here

















adda boy der johnny bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get in er deep!!!!!!!



cheers

[reefwars]

lol the second pic is him croaking from the smell lololol!!!!

[reefwars]

heres some pics of the light ring in progress it turns out i grabbed bolts too small for the screws so i only have one halide hung right now and it will stay like this untill after christmas, i think it turned out really clean i used a small piece of plywood to mount the ballast to the top and the pendants them selves have been bolted on so i can turn them but they arent coming off without a wrench


thanks grizz awseome job
























sorry again for the bads pics