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

[kien]

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

No, I live in Douglasdale.

That's what I thought. I've never ever seen that logo other than in your avatar so I thought maybe it was yours. I didn't know it was a brand.

[FishyFishy!]

Mocked up the return pump plumbing. Do you think that I should keep the ball valves? I figured they would be handy to cut off water flow if I need to service the check valves.



Also plumbed up the manifold pump and mocked up the fuge tank/frag tank plumbing

[Craigdillman]

Looks good more ball valves the better I think, never know and it leaves you wih options later

[FishyFishy!]

So I decided to up the size of the ball valves on the return pumps to minimize flow restriction. The 1" true union ball valves that I have been using are tiny inside! They actually reduce in size by about half from your standard internal 1" pipe diameter. So I measured the inside on a 1" pipe, and then the inside of a 1.5" true union ball valve, and the internal diameters were almost the same. The check valves also have a large interior diameter.

These 1.5" valves are frikin huge, but they will work well at not reducing the flow like the 1" would have.

Here is the interior comparison of a 1" to a 1.5"

[FishyFishy!]

Here these beasts are all plumbed and ready to go!



Also got the finishing touches on my manifold. 4 X 1/2" barbed fittings to go to my reactors/UV.



Frag tank drains are all plumbed.



And the fuge drain from fuge to main sump is done as well! I have to use a different (frikin expensive) ball valve from western pump, because of the lack of space, and the slight bend in the plumbing into the other closet. This one was a little shorter, and allowed me to use the two 45 degree fittings to make the bend. Only thing is.... the handle is orange. So I will remove it and paint it red like the rest asap! Call me OCD... But it has to match!

[FishyFishy!]

And since the bottom right sump will be slightly darker underneath, I put an LED light bar in there. Works well! I can actually see what I'm doing when it's dark in the room.





Old ball valves are on in this pic. But here is the LED on with a pitch black room behind me.

[kien]

Wow. I like how you are single handedly bringing sexy back with this tank build.