Squire's 90 Gallon Build, Now With Salt Water

[The Grizz]

Glad to here you got the Durso running a little better. It's hard to tell from the video how long the drain pipe goes into the sump but it looks to me as if the end of the pipe is angled a bit. What I have done with my drains is to keep them as straight down into the sump to within a few inches of the bottom & drill a bunch of 1/2" holes around the pipe that is under water. Doing this will help some of the air bubbles escape & decrease the turbulence of the water coming out of the drain.

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Glad to here you got the Durso running a little better. It's hard to tell from the video how long the drain pipe goes into the sump but it looks to me as if the end of the pipe is angled a bit. What I have done with my drains is to keep them as straight down into the sump to within a few inches of the bottom & drill a bunch of 1/2" holes around the pipe that is under water. Doing this will help some of the air bubbles escape & decrease the turbulence of the water coming out of the drain.

I used flex, I can't run drain straight down. Will try it with a couple of 45's and see what I can accomplish.

[Ginu]

Hey I was following your thread and I have a question in regards to the drain and eurobrace.
Do you find that the eurobrace gets in the way when cleaning or adjusting the pipes?
I'm thinking of getting a tank which i will eurobrace but wasn't sure how that would pan out.


Thanks,

[ensquire]

It can get a little tight, but manageable .What I did was use 1 3/4 wide bracing on the back and the side with the overflow. I have a double eurobrace on my tank, one layer all around the top and a second layer flush to the tank under first layer. I stopped the lower layer at the edge of the overflow. I will take a pic and post it if you need it.

Originally Posted by Ginu

Hey I was following your thread and I have a question in regards to the drain and eurobrace.
Do you find that the eurobrace gets in the way when cleaning or adjusting the pipes?
I'm thinking of getting a tank which i will eurobrace but wasn't sure how that would pan out.


Thanks,

[Ginu]

Originally Posted by ensquire

It can get a little tight, but manageable .What I did was use 1 3/4 wide bracing on the back and the side with the overflow. I have a double eurobrace on my tank, one layer all around the top and a second layer flush to the tank under first layer. I stopped the lower layer at the edge of the overflow. I will take a pic and post it if you need it.

Thanks for the reply and if you dont mind a pic would be awesome as it might help once I get started on a bigger tank.

Thanks,

[ensquire]

Stand is in the house..





Decided to put up some FRP board on the walls behind and on the closed side of the tank. Save the wall board from salt creep hopefully.







Built a manifold for future reactors if needed



Tank is sitting outside for a good cleaning, then going to fix up the back wall. I saw something on another tank that I want to try.
Have to get RO/DI producing water tomorrow and get tank into house.

[gregzz4]

Stand looks awesome in it's new home
Great idea with the backwall stuff
Nice lights you bought there too jealous