Moving a 120 gal tank any advise

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Whats your flow?
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...highlight=flow

47x sounds good to me.

I knew OA had seal kits but I had no idea about motor bearings and I don't see anything on their website. Bill, are you sure you're talking about the same thing?

Ya Russell i'm pretty sure it would be the same bearing. The water should not be any wheres near the motor, it just goes through the housing. If the motor got wet would'nt it be fried? The bearing was'nt listed on the site, Wendall ordered it in for me.

[1eyedjyde]

Thanks for the input guys unfortunately the pump is already in the mail. I will see about the impeller and wether or not it can just be replaced with the dart one to boost the performance.

I'm making a little more progress and tonight I started doing a little scaping now that the tank is full of salt water and up to temp. I will upload a couple photos tomorow.

[1eyedjyde]

Here are a couple shots of some preliminary rock work.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream

[Madreefer]

Speaking from experience here. You might want to try a peice of acrylic rather than the eggcrate. If you have alot of flow on the sandbed the eggcrate starts to get exposed. It sticks out like a sore thumb and looks really bad and if you suffer from even a little bit of OCD like most of us that have SW tanks it'll bug the crap out of you. I personally dont have anything other than sand on my tank bottom and have never had a problem and this is my 6th (i think) setup.

[1eyedjyde]

Acrilic would be nice however the dollar figure on that stuff is pretty steep. I made my mind up about having something between the glass bottom and rock though a couple weeks ago when the bottom of the 29 gal tank blew out. I was also thinking of just trimming back the egg crate to the base of the rock so open areas, where sand might have a tendancy to get swept away, would be free from egg crate so it might not show up. Not too worried about having the rock fall on the glass, since the base rock is stable and any spindly stuff will eventually be epoxied in place, more just a percausion and to distribute the weight a little bit.

Ok and an update on the pump, so reflo is going to swap out the impeller for the Dart so my final flow numbers will be approximately 5600 gal/hr for 46 turn overs/hr. woo hoo. Any SPS will be happy there.

[1eyedjyde]

Here is a photo update of the scape.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...n/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7697788...in/photostream

[whatcaneyedo]

If you need some more sand for that tank contact Cyberdude47 (Lonnie). He has a whole garbage can full of it left over from his 500gal teardown.