Yay New Tank
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matt b
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Originally Posted by cprdnick
Looks like a pretty simple design, do you have that one up and running yet?
NO i just got done with the 1st silicone layer and plus my stands not gonna be here till end of next week so i cant hook any thing up but im gonna do another layer of silicone tomorrow and then leak test everything in a few days
Looks like a pretty simple design, do you have that one up and running yet?
NO i just got done with the 1st silicone layer and plus my stands not gonna be here till end of next week so i cant hook any thing up but im gonna do another layer of silicone tomorrow and then leak test everything in a few days
hunted
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Originally Posted by MaTT B
well heres the fuge, i had a hard time with the silicone bcus the glass was not long enuf but im gonna do another layer of silicone tomorrow
Seeing how you are not up and running yet, why don't you do a few changes, it's only a metter of cutting out a couple of peices of glass and moving them around and adding another piece or two, have a look at my fuge/sump, the guy at my LFS set this one up and he is very good at it with lots of experience.
What you want to get is flow over the top of your substrate, so you make a box with two pieces of glass and have your water flow up from the drain and over your substrate and than back down, just look at the pics, and if you have anymore questions i'll try and get some better pics. Hope this helps
50 gal fuge sump
well heres the fuge, i had a hard time with the silicone bcus the glass was not long enuf but im gonna do another layer of silicone tomorrow
Seeing how you are not up and running yet, why don't you do a few changes, it's only a metter of cutting out a couple of peices of glass and moving them around and adding another piece or two, have a look at my fuge/sump, the guy at my LFS set this one up and he is very good at it with lots of experience.
What you want to get is flow over the top of your substrate, so you make a box with two pieces of glass and have your water flow up from the drain and over your substrate and than back down, just look at the pics, and if you have anymore questions i'll try and get some better pics. Hope this helps
50 gal fuge sump
hunted
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As for going with metal halides, I wouldn't second guess it, you won't need a chiller, I'm running 2 400 watt 20,000k halides and 1 150 watt 20,000k halide on my 180 reef, with a completely closed in canopy and two 4" computer fans, I do leave the lid up on my canopy about 1" to help vent, my temp only gets up to 78 during the day and back to 75.5 at night.
matt b
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Originally Posted by Hunted
the green blue and brown are your surface area, this is called menella or something like that, I always
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the name of it up, but apparently 1 sq/ft of this is equal to something like 1500 bio-balls, I could be out to lunch with that number but it's high.
ok well i dont know if im gonna do all that, i was just thinking 3 or 4 baffles sand, cheato, pump, light
the green blue and brown are your surface area, this is called menella or something like that, I always
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the name of it up, but apparently 1 sq/ft of this is equal to something like 1500 bio-balls, I could be out to lunch with that number but it's high.
ok well i dont know if im gonna do all that, i was just thinking 3 or 4 baffles sand, cheato, pump, light
matt b
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Originally Posted by Hunted
just be careful to design it so you don't have sand going into your pumps, and areas to collect silt. you should problebly design it for the future as well incase you want to add a skimmer, I can't see any system running with out one.
well i have a aquac remora hang on but your right i need to make it work for the future.. i think i might start the sump over bcus baffles and tanks are cheap so i might make one like i made in paint
just be careful to design it so you don't have sand going into your pumps, and areas to collect silt. you should problebly design it for the future as well incase you want to add a skimmer, I can't see any system running with out one.
well i have a aquac remora hang on but your right i need to make it work for the future.. i think i might start the sump over bcus baffles and tanks are cheap so i might make one like i made in paint
hunted
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Looks really good just make the last piece of glass by the return higher . You can do all kinds of tangs just watch which ones are going in, usually same shape and or same color don't work, I have a,
sailfin
naso
blue
powder blue and
yellow tangs in my 180.
And they will get along with the fish on your list.
sailfin
naso
blue
powder blue and
yellow tangs in my 180.
And they will get along with the fish on your list.