FishyFishy!'s 210g of Fantasmic! Fishalicious! Fauna!

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by ensquire

Good Party

When you do your water changes, are you just dumping the volume of the sump or do you drain part of your DT as well? I hear you about the hoses and pumps and buckets. I like the ease of your setup...

Haha, yeah it was a gooder. Beleive it or not.... it was an airsoft bullet that cracked the front payne. lol.

The first skimmer tank will be the one that gets drained. It is about 30 gallons. It has a hole drilled into the middle that goes right to the drain in the laundry room. Then gets filled by changing the flow in the saltwater mixing pail from re-circ to fill. I figure this is the best one, as it is the point of entry from the main display, and will probably build up a lot of detritus and stuff. So i'll just give the water a mix to stir it all up then dump it.

This tank:



I am already planning on an upgrade for that first skimmer sump. The current one is around 50X15X10, and will turn into a frag tank outside the closet. I will get a new one very similar, but a bit bigger for larger water changes. I was thinking something like 50X24X12 for the new one

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TAGGING ALONG.

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

TAGGING ALONG.

It's an honor! Been jealous of your DD for ages.

I wish I could get a deeper tank. But 24" is my max otherwise it gets in the way of walking inbetween the tank and my kitchen island

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Set up is looking amazing. I am the one that should be jealous. keep up the good work. We'll all be watching ya!

[FishyFishy!]

Bored... SO I figured I'd post pics of how I re-built my bottom return sump.

It looked like this when I started. I think it was designed for freshwater, with the shelves on the left etc.



So I stripped all the baffles:







Then got a couple more baffles and a dual 4" filter sock holder from concepts and started putting everything back together:

Love the spacers/supports!!




All Done!

[FishyFishy!]

And... I'm done painting the stand for the BRUTES and the filtration tanks for the left closet. Going to test fit it all tonight... Hopefully I measured correctly lol.



And also rescued this little guy from a fellow reefers tank that was leaking and threw him into my 39g Bowfront.

No idea why he would choose the powerhead only minutes after being put in... but to each their own!

[Zoaelite]

Talk a bout DIY GOLD!!! Subscribed, loved the previous builds even more stoked on this one!