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

[FishyFishy!]

1. Water change station is now down in my laundry room. I will pump the water up via a Mag24 into the water change tank. This allows me much more space for my frag and DSB/Fuge tanks. Hopefully when I get to water test this weekend, the Mag24 will be ok with the 10 ft head. The pump is plugged in to an extension cord that I ran from the laundry room and hooked up to my American DJ switchable power bars. this allows me to be upstairs to turn the pump on and off when the tank is full. The drain system remains the same.



I still have to drill the holes for the uni-seals in the Brutes. Out of the 10 hole saws I have... I don't have a 1.75" for the Uni-Seals. So thats next. Here is the Mag24 all hooked up.



Goes up to the roof



Along the roof




And towards the tank through the floor



You can kinda see the depths of the floor here. On the other side about 8 feet away is the tank. Here you can also see my dryer hose for the vent fan, and the black ABS drain pipe.

[FishyFishy!]

2. I had Concepts build me a new 1st stage sump tank. This tank is designed to be the settling/skimmer/calcium reactor/water change tank. New dimensions are 50"X24"X12". Doing this, I can now use the original 50"X15"X9" as a perfect frag tank!

Check it out in all it's glory! Makes my monster skimmer look tiny!



Concepts as usual did a fantastic job. I'm going to get them to build me a new bottom sump thats a little shorter in the future.

[FishyFishy!]

I also made this little acrylic holder/protector for my power supply. The nice thing about this build, is that I'm using three different circuits for the power, so I won't be overloading any one circuit, and I don't have to add a whole new dedicated set of breakers.





Next up, I have to go get my three new RO canisters from Eli (he was kind enough to order them in for me!). For anyone who missed my other post, I left them in the garage over winter and they exploded. Must have had water inside that froze. Here is the damage:

[LoJack]

Holy Paint Skills Batman!! I like the look of that way better than sketch up ... awesome work!

Set up looks very well planned. I really like the way you have your support tanks set up, very smart idea. Pretty sure when I plumb in my frag tanks and ATO Res and Fuge during my move in the fall ... I'll be coming back to this thread. Pure genius in terms of simplifying maintenance.

And if there is one thing that ends up being an absolute truth in this hobby for me after 10 years ... if maintenance is difficult to do, it likely won't get done. The easier it is, the more frequent it will be kept on, and the better your system will be as a result of that.

So, in all, awesome job!!

[FishyFishy!]

Originally Posted by LoJack

Holy Paint Skills Batman!! I like the look of that way better than sketch up ... awesome work!

Set up looks very well planned. I really like the way you have your support tanks set up, very smart idea. Pretty sure when I plumb in my frag tanks and ATO Res and Fuge during my move in the fall ... I'll be coming back to this thread. Pure genius in terms of simplifying maintenance.

And if there is one thing that ends up being an absolute truth in this hobby for me after 10 years ... if maintenance is difficult to do, it likely won't get done. The easier it is, the more frequent it will be kept on, and the better your system will be as a result of that.

So, in all, awesome job!!

Thanks!!! I totally agree.... I have shut down so many tanks due to difficult maintenance. Everything I've done in this build so far has centered around ease of maintenance.... so that I actually do it!

[LoJack]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

... so that I actually do it!

Amen to that lol

[FishyFishy!]

Took a head pressure measurement for the 2400 GPH Mag24. Looks like I should be getting 628 GPH out of the end of the pipe into the water change tank. That means I should be roughly 4 minutes to fill again.