acrylic51
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Here is a closeup shot of the bulkhead hole poured with epoxy.....Gives you an idea on all the tedious little things. All these holes need is a little sanding to clean up the edges.....Excuse all the mess around....the sander cleans up any excess rather quickly.....
This is a shot of a PVC fitting epoxied into place in the front of the tank....Again either OceansMotions revs or Omni nozzles will be used here to direct water flow. I chose to glue these into place, so I could easily swap out the end pieces since the threaded ends are all the same size between the revs and omni nozzles.....I will have to post a pic of the revs and omni nozzles......
This is a pic of the OceansMotions rev.....At the top of the fixture you can see the threaded end......This will thread easily into the PVC fittings I have already put into place......How these work is when water pressure is applied to them via a pump they drop down (the nozzle portion) and spray water.....When water pressure is taken away from them the get sucked back upward......Upon water pressure being applied again to them as they drop down they will rotate or index a bit; moving the nozzles to a different location redirecting water flow.....This process is repeated over and over again. The nice thing is everything is made with PVC and no parts to go bad more or less.
These are also revs, but they are built upside down.......These are what I'm considering using on the bottom of the tank to provide upward flow and also hidden underneath the rock structure to keep the bottom of the tank clean and detrius in the water column.....Corey this is another reason I was pushing more towards sand embedded in epoxy.........
Here a a couple pics of the Omni nozzles I am referring to.......The standard ones are 1 1/2" which I'm thinking of using on the return lines from the sump, and the others could be used on the bottom of the tank. An alternative to the Loc line hose I guess.....
This is a shot of a PVC fitting epoxied into place in the front of the tank....Again either OceansMotions revs or Omni nozzles will be used here to direct water flow. I chose to glue these into place, so I could easily swap out the end pieces since the threaded ends are all the same size between the revs and omni nozzles.....I will have to post a pic of the revs and omni nozzles......
This is a pic of the OceansMotions rev.....At the top of the fixture you can see the threaded end......This will thread easily into the PVC fittings I have already put into place......How these work is when water pressure is applied to them via a pump they drop down (the nozzle portion) and spray water.....When water pressure is taken away from them the get sucked back upward......Upon water pressure being applied again to them as they drop down they will rotate or index a bit; moving the nozzles to a different location redirecting water flow.....This process is repeated over and over again. The nice thing is everything is made with PVC and no parts to go bad more or less.
These are also revs, but they are built upside down.......These are what I'm considering using on the bottom of the tank to provide upward flow and also hidden underneath the rock structure to keep the bottom of the tank clean and detrius in the water column.....Corey this is another reason I was pushing more towards sand embedded in epoxy.........
Here a a couple pics of the Omni nozzles I am referring to.......The standard ones are 1 1/2" which I'm thinking of using on the return lines from the sump, and the others could be used on the bottom of the tank. An alternative to the Loc line hose I guess.....
