Our 40g Island waterfall

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Slyguy00

gonna look awesome when its done!

thanks nick , you should see it now looks incredible



little peeved the misses may get a TOTM before me though

[Misses.ReefWars]

ok so we had to design a sump , this is right up our alley and we got to work and drew something up

these were the plans we made:



















basically our down pipes from the external overflow are plumbed into the chamber marked drain entry form display , water then flows over the baffle and onto a 7" filter sock try , when the socks are running normal water flows under the next baffle and when they clog water flows over the notch and into the fuge , after the socks the water flows through the refugium and then into the skimmer section , through some bubble traps and into the return. we have added a small ATO in the back corner as well some dosing chambers for vinegar, alk , cal and mg there is an acrylic cover for both the ATO and dosing chambers with holes drilled for lines

will post actual pictures of our sump and how it turned out next

[Misses.ReefWars]

and the actual sump all glass














under the stand



skimmer and reactor laid in place

[don.ald]

Like the sump, great design.
Is there a reason the skimmer compartment is after the refugium? My sump is the same flow pattern, however I sometimes think the flow through the skimmer then refugium before return could benefit pod growth. Just curious?
Rick

[Skimmin]

Wow thats a really intricate sump! Nice work.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by don.ald

Like the sump, great design.
Is there a reason the skimmer compartment is after the refugium? My sump is the same flow pattern, however I sometimes think the flow through the skimmer then refugium before return could benefit pod growth. Just curious?
Rick

IME theres not a pump in the world that can chew pods up , amphipods maybe but not copepods

i use to see them in my skimmer and reactors constantly so im sure they make it through as they got in there

thanks guys for the compliments more to come soon

[tang daddy]

Nice work guys, can't wait to see this up and running. Plus 2 on a custom sump, like how you've set up ato and dosing compartments in it aswell.

Out of curiousity what does a sump like this cost?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Nice work guys, can't wait to see this up and running. Plus 2 on a custom sump, like how you've set up ato and dosing compartments in it aswell.

Out of curiousity what does a sump like this cost?

thanks man we love the sump and i could have went a bit more crazy but this is all i really needed for this setup

sump was about $300 and runs completely quiet and bubble free

ive done sumps that make this look basic and simple , some of the crazy designs we have came up with customers have kept me on my toes lol


more to come!!

[Misses.ReefWars]

ok time to get the water lines on the island and waterfall and to fill this with water and take it for a test drive


for the island we were going to use 1/4" tubing but after going through all the trouble to install it all even hooked up to a mag 9 couldn't push water through it , an option was to use a dosing pump but they don't have a lot of flow so....we had to go with a slightly larger tubing at 3/8" diameter

the lines are fed via a " tee " off the jebao 12000 and there are three lies in total for the island and one line for the water fall , this way by using a large return pump we had some extra umfff and set the flow rate properly

once the lines were figured out we used some small pieces of pukani to cover them up and then some fijicrete and sand to hide it and make it not so notciable

you can also get a better view of the epoxy basins we made for the island







one line we decided to not have a basin and flows down into the water line:












waterline neatly hidden down the backside of the island




it works

[Misses.ReefWars]

ok so fast forward through our cycle and we have a rough finished look , even a few first tester corals from our prop systems

light has now been mounted above and about this time hooked our doser to automate additives

we have been carbon dosing vinegar since the first day water was added and have had no measurable No3 or P04 and to this day am still on my first batch of gfo

gotta love nipping it in the butt right out the gate

tank is being dosed 40ml of %5 white vinegar throughout a 24 hr period




pay no attention to the ugly koralias there are rplaced by 2 x jebao rw-4 shortly





getting close to where we are today , tank still has a lot of corals to add but is coming along nicely

we will post our stocking plans here next for corals and fish

thanks for following!!