Thanks for the update, look forward to seeing it up and running.

wow thats really nice looking

Is the pipe on the right the return pipe? If so, where does the water come out? Looks completely enclosed to me. Have you tested your filtration yet?

that looks amazing great work

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Got a question for you, maybe i just missed it, but, why are you going to have so many chambers in your sump?

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hey guys, Sorry I havent posted in a while I've been real busy with work. Got a few minutes before i'm gonna go to bed so decided to answer your questions. To answer you question Jrman83 if you look on the right side about mid way along the background there are four small holes they are the outlets. To answer your question Reefing Madness the reason why i have some many chambers is..... I dont know just decided to do 4 instead of 3. Im thinking about trying some new ideas i have had for filtration in one of the sections so i made another one, so we will see what happens.

not sure i would have done your return outlets that way..on a system like this anything that restricts fow on the system is called head( the amount of flow lost between the return pump and the waters final destination...the tank) anything can restrict flow,, 90 elbows, length op piping to the display, if your return pip isnt lined up with anyone of those hole thats going to restrict flow to the tank. system will still work as long as water can get to your overflow box, but i think your going to find out the tank does'nt have much flow at all,,and monitor the fill the first time..if water cant get to that overflow..you will have a overflow on your hands..good luck..let us know how it works.

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Not sure if I quite understand what you saying whitetiger61, but I think what you are thinking is that the return pipe just ends behind the background and that I just cut four holes in the background for the water to go through ? If that's what you are thinking then it's wrong, what I did is I have another 90 and then a straight pipe with a cap on the end. Then I drilled 4 holes in the pipe and matched them up with the backgrounds holes and epoxyed the pipe in place. So the water flowing out of the holes comes directly from the return line. I have been testing the system for about a month now to and it works quite nicely. The only problem I have been having is that I am losing about a quart of water a day in evaporation is this normal? I was told by a friend it's because I live in an upstairs apartment and they tend to be very dry due to having heat sources all around our place. I also don't have the hood on it right now so that probably doesn't help, any advice ?

i didnt see that posted in your thread..so you should be just fine..and with living upstairs and no hood that evaporation rate is normal..i have a 50 cube with a open top and my evap rate is about 1/2 gallon per day. but im seeing that go down with the led's now. nice setup. keep us posted and im sorry if i didnt read it right.

Rick

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Not a problem, I like your setup, I was looking at your galleries last night, did you make those tanks yourself ? If so where do you buy your glass, I eventually want to build my own tank. But I can't seem to find a place that sells glass at a reasonable price.

By the way I forgot I did have one hiccup about a month ago. I forgot to put in an anti siphon hole in the return line and had turned off the pump to do a complete water change. left the room for about a minute or so and then heard my wife start to scream in horror. Took me about an hour to clean it up . I now have a anti siphon hole.

i built a few of them but not all...just went to my local glass shop with dimensions and had them cut it..they even sanded the edges for me..it can get expensive, but not as expensive as acrlyic..yeah i forgot to ask about a anti- siphoning hole..lol..makes you feel any better ive made that mistake too. Thanks for the compliments..its appericiated.

Rick

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<---- Also guilty of forgetting the anti Syphon hole on y first system i put on my 190.. luckily the tank was in a basement so it wasn't that bad to clean up I'm guessing you have an Acrylic Bender or are you using a heat gun to bend your acrylic? also are you using silicone to hold the acrylic together or did you buy the acrylic "glue". I know i used some stuff from TAP plastics for my acrylic stuff. smells like acetone to me but i believe there is more to it than that.

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lol nope, I used a butane torch and my stove top to bend the acrylic, im pretty low tech, I've been doing everything in my 2 bedroom apartment.I didnt show it but the hood i made has all handmade joints, took me a long time with just chisels but turned out very nice. Next time im going to use my oven to do a lot of the bends never really thought about it, but thats what the big companies do for giant sheets.

I used acrylic glue to bond everything together, but then I sealed it all with silicon just to make sure.

Silicone isn't go to do much for sealing a Acrylic plate, Weld-On on the other hand bonds the sheets together.

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I'm way late to the dance on this one but did want to complement you on your work. Looks very interesting and a great setup.

To anyone viewing this thread you might want to consider the "beaslbob trap" which is a pvc overflow similiar to the post on the firs page here.

See: pvc overflow

then that thread is 3 years old also.

my .02

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recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden

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yeah i figured you had used the acrylic glue but i wanted to check. I have built a few odds an ends with acrylic.. was actually looking into a heat strip bender.. that way you arent heating the whole sheet for the bends. and yes the silicone seal is a smart idea. given that the acrylic glue seals things pretty good the silicone insurance policy doesnt hurt.


Nice work on this by the way. It looks good.

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been there done that.

added a anti-siphon hole also. and in another case just had the return lines above the water line.

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recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden

i have a question..is this going to be a saltwater or freshwater tank?

Rick

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freashwater, im a novice and i dont have the money to afford a saltwater tank just yet