Squire's 90 Gallon Build, Now With Salt Water

[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

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

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

Getting ever so much closer, been a long time getting here.
Starting to get excited now.

[lockrookie]

Originally Posted by ensquire

Getting ever so much closer, been a long time getting here.
Starting to get excited now.

i know the feeling you just get to that point where hole crap im amost done.. then in my case it will be what will i do next lol def need a frag tank somewhere i think hehe. looking good bud.

[ensquire]

Finally got the tank close to home, Outside for a cleaning and for the last stage before putting iton the stand.
I saw a thread on another site that did a tile back wall and thought "what the Hell' Looked good.... gotta try it.













Weather has been amazing here so far this summer, was nice to be outside working on the tank, BUT time to get this on the stand.
Had a couple guys lined up to help me get it in the house, but that didn't happen so, and in light of what happened to the last tank, I wiggled it onto a dolly and ran it in the house by myself. Broke a vase and a 2x4 but tank made ther trip intact.
Thought about setting it on the stand myself but with the extra weight of the tile and the fact that I added an extra 5 1/2" to the height of the stand, thought that it would be best to wait for help.

[gregzz4]

This is going to be interesting

Keep the pics comin'

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

This is going to be interesting

Keep the pics comin'

Buckle up, major pics comin your way

[ensquire]

Finally, tank and stand together in my house....



Still not 100% about the extra height on the stand, will need a workbench everytime to do any work on the tank. Try it for a while and keep thinking of all the work it will be to remove the 2 x 6. I have lots of benches kicking around from my drywalling days.




Version # 3 of my reactor manifold



Old sump all cleaned up



Plumbed and ready



Version #1 of my electical box. actually had to mod it once because I didn't measure how big the Radion Ballasts were and had to add 3/4" to the depth.
Used an old American DJ switch box from work for all those things I want to be able to turn off and on all the time. Have one GFI plug plugged to the wall and one GFI on a battery backup for one pump and a heater for the once a month power outage. Still have plenty of space for a controller EB8 in the box and even a few more boxes if needed. Ran the pump controller to the front with the switches also.

[gregzz4]

An old piece of airline or other hose, slit length-wise and stuffed over that broken glass, may be a friend one day

[ensquire]

Time for the leak test. Pumped in all my stored RO/DI. There were buckets and pumps everywhere on my deck Ran 3/4" line through living room window and let er Buck. Filled in less than an hour.







Bulkhead leaked a bit , so had to drain it down a foot and siliconed it up. There was a couple little chips from the drill bit.
Still want to add a check valve to the return line as a backup for the anti siphon holes inside the tank. Of course everywhere I order one from has me on a waiting list. And they are definately not found in Yellowknife.

also had to test modded overflow. I changed the drain from 1 1/2" to 1" by reducing both sides of the bulkhead. I wanted to see if this would allow me to open the main herbie drain gate valve a bit more. Didn't seem to make much difference so I returned ther top portion of main drain pipe back to 1 1/2" and seemed to allow me to open the gate valve a bit more. Looks like only other option is to try a bigger pump, but for now I can live with the flow.