My 300 gallon Drop Off Reef Tank Build

[evaneatspie555]

Let's see the scape step by step if u could I wanna see how u do it so I can try and learn more about aqua scaping mines a stack method right meow

[Gripenfelter]

Originally Posted by evaneatspie555

Let's see the scape step by step if u could I wanna see how u do it so I can try and learn more about aqua scaping mines a stack method right meow

I'm using mostly indo rock on the drop off portion with caves in it. The top portion will be flat portions of rock on top of round pieces to make large see through caves since the tank is viewable from both sides.

Some Tonga with GSP on it to frame the sides of the rock work.

[evaneatspie555]

wat is gsp lol im dont know all the short forms yet

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by evaneatspie555

wat is gsp lol im dont know all the short forms yet

Where's Mark when you need him?

GSP = green star polyps

[Gripenfelter]

Originally Posted by evaneatspie555

wat is gsp lol im dont know all the short forms yet

[Nano]

GSP is lovely escpecially under lunar. I love mine probably on of my favorites!

[The Grizz]

My question would be where to locate the drains, how many drains. Would I do 4 main and 2 emergency or just 2 & 1?


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[Gripenfelter]

You only need 3.

At 5700 GPH my main siphon is 95% open. If I made it 100% open it would suck the overflow dry.

The way you set it is to set the main siphon so it is slightly slower than the flow of water entering the overflow.

Then you set the secondary open so it will suck up just enough to keep the water level from rising. If the water level rises to the point where it reaches the airline, the secondary also goes full siphon.

If for some reason the first two are clogged the emergency, which is never used, will go full siphon.

So really there are 2 fail safes. Anymore drains than this are overkill.

[The Grizz]

OH OK, that makes sense now and great explanation of how it works. What I had originally thought of doing was to put a drain at each end of the coast to coast and have the c -c split in half, 4' feeding each overflow but doing this i could just put it in the middle of the tank with maybe 1' between each hole.

I really like how this look and it sounds like it works well to. I want to be able to feed my skimmer, reactors and if needed my chiller off my overflows so they get as much of the yukie goodness they can.

[Gripenfelter]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

OH OK, that makes sense now and great explanation of how it works. What I had originally thought of doing was to put a drain at each end of the coast to coast and have the c -c split in half, 4' feeding each overflow but doing this i could just put it in the middle of the tank with maybe 1' between each hole.

I really like how this look and it sounds like it works well to. I want to be able to feed my skimmer, reactors and if needed my chiller off my overflows so they get as much of the yukie goodness they can.

You'd want all the drains going to one place. Or at least your main one. The other 2 will have a minimal amount of water going through them.

Doesn't matter where in the coast to coast overflow you put the drains. I would space them out as much as possible but you can also put them right beside one another.