tank remodeling,sump question? (last page)

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

Well the time has come for me to do upgrade and do some remodeling to my fish room
Here are some photos of what I have running now,I am going to try and finish all upgrades by next weekend.
at the moment I have a 180glns in-wall and approx 230glns consisting of a frag tank and a couple sumps witch all tanks are tied together.
For next week hoping will have the original180 and adding 240,100,60 and a 40glns running all together.
Here are some photos of the wall prior to...
Left side


Right side of the wall



Left side again with the door open to the fish room



Frag tank into fish room



The 100 glns sump



The 60 glns frag tank

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

More photos to be added for every step I take
This upgrade is to facilitate bringing in more coral shipments and it would make my wall look more full.

[riceboy]

Wow Eli are u going to be doing anything about the added water that looks to be about 620 gallons are u afraid of the evap and moisture in the house, especially during the winter?

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

Originally Posted by riceboy

Wow Eli are u going to be doing anything about the added water that looks to be about 620 gallons are u afraid of the evap and moisture in the house, especially during the winter?

The tanks will be insulated behind the fish room that will have its own draw of air and exhaust from outside in the hopes that will fix any moisture and heat buildup.

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

A question to those used Spa-flex.should the 1.5" spa flex it tight like a PVC on any fitting or should it be loose and use some kind of transition fittings.Because seems like mine fit loosely in the fitting and I bought this product G941HT… SPA FLEX from www.greenlinehose.com/
and the specs says 1.5" spa-flex with ID 1.65 AND od 1.90

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Elias@caco3reef.com

A question to those used Spa-flex.should the 1.5" spa flex it tight like a PVC on any fitting or should it be loose and use some kind of transition fittings.Because seems like mine fit loosely in the fitting and I bought this product G941HT… SPA FLEX from www.greenlinehose.com/
and the specs says 1.5" spa-flex with ID 1.65 AND od 1.90

I searched on G941HT on that site and came up with this: http://www.greenlinehose.com/_pdf/hose/2.Water.pdf#search="G941HT"

... which I have to say looks like some kind of rubber? That's not spa flex. Spa flex is, literally, flexible PVC pipe. You use PVC cement same as like for rigid PVC (you can use regular PVC cement but the flex PVC cement is clear because it has a little bit of give to it) and yeah the fittings are ordinarily a pretty tight fit (same as rigid PVC would be - it's the same fittings).

[mykebob]

This is really a nice tank and I hope you will be successful to remodel this. These are very nice pictures.