My 300 gallon Drop Off Reef Tank Build

The Grizz · #1 02-01-2012, 10:13 PM

All the drains will be going to one place, thinking of putting in a short 3" piece of pipe at the end of all the drains to collect in and then take off for my skimmer & reactors.

Thanks so much for the info!! What kind of flex pipe did you use? Was it fairly easy to work with?

I am really digging the drop off you have going

Proteus · #2 02-01-2012, 10:35 PM

Grizz.
This what I did its the bees knees. Not a sound to be heard. It's exactly what gripenfelter was explaining
http://www.beananimal.com/projects/s...ow-system.aspx

Gripenfelter · #3 02-02-2012, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Grizz

All the drains will be going to one place, thinking of putting in a short 3" piece of pipe at the end of all the drains to collect in and then take off for my skimmer & reactors.

Thanks so much for the info!! What kind of flex pipe did you use? Was it fairly easy to work with?

I am really digging the drop off you have going

I would recommend not connecting all the drains together. The point of this fail safe system is that if one pipe gets clogged you still have 2 back ups. If you connect them all together and they clog at the point where you connected all of them together you will have a swimming pool in your house.

Gripenfelter · #4 02-02-2012, 01:46 PM

Moved over 75% of the rock from the other tank. Did some aquascaping. My apartment complex (caves on the drop off) for the fishes is starting to take shape.

Half of a tower/bridge I'm building.

Looking length-wise into the tank.

The apartment complex.

Slowly getting there.

Still need a lot more rock for the drop off. I'll be transferring more over today and hopefully some fish today or tomorrow and finish aquascaping this weekend.

Then add sand.

The side panels should arrive in 2 weeks. Went with black aluminum. A buddy of mine races circle track and uses black aluminum for the body panels on their race car so he's going to snag me some pieces.

Gripenfelter · #5 02-03-2012, 05:45 AM

Added all the fish and rock...now I have to aquascape it.

Gripenfelter · #6 02-03-2012, 02:04 PM

So far so good. False Perc Clowns swam up and inspected the black clowns but then swam away. No aggression.

The Grizz · #7 02-04-2012, 01:51 AM

Do your fish look really tiny in all that space now

Gripenfelter · #8 02-05-2012, 01:53 AM

So far they are only using the deep end of the tank and only going 3/4 up. I guess they are still used to the old tank.