- Location
- Westchester NY
Hight does not matter... its the thickness of the water you are sending over that wall
My completly custom waterfall tank design and build from the bottom up.
- Thread starter coralcruze
- Start date
Hight does not matter... its the thickness of the water you are sending over that wall
- Location
- Westchester NY
I know I haven't posted any updates in a while... Been busy setting up my reef.
not sure if anyone is interested but here is where I'm at now:
SIDE VIEW THROUGH THE WATER FALL
TOP DOWN VIEW
not sure if anyone is interested but here is where I'm at now:
SIDE VIEW THROUGH THE WATER FALL
TOP DOWN VIEW
- Location
- Westchester NY
Lost all of my coraline algae that I had growing on the rock for over 15 years I'm bumed about that. However, its starting to grow back so in a few months it should be looking pretty good again. right now its perfect breeding ground for hair algae and other micro-algae.
I'm bumed about that. However, its starting to grow back so in a few months it should be looking pretty good again. right now its perfect breeding ground for hair algae and other micro-algae.
- Location
- Staten Island
Beautiful tank, I'd love to know how the algae scraping goes.. It's great that you only did 2 panes please keep us posted and I'll be copying you idea a little with my new set up in the future if all pans out.. Keep up the good work.. I'd be afraid scraping coraline would get annoying from in and out of the tank..
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- Location
- New Jersey
Nice update! Good move only doing the two side panes.
- Location
- Staten Island
That is one sweet tank!
- Location
- Garden city
Looks great??
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- Location
- Staten Island
Nice job on the build , just curios how do you have the drains plumed, also do you think you would get more evaporation because of the waterfall.
- Location
- Westchester NY
Its really not so bad. You have to decide, if you hate scraping algae than a frshwater tank may be better for you. But then you have to siphon the gravel with those. I don't scrape and never plan to... I whipe down the glass during a feeding once every two days. As long as this is done coraline will not get a chance to grow... hence no scraping. Thats the trick, but we shall see. I will let the back get encrusted, I think.
Thanks, during the design phase I had it where it was only one wall (front wall) overflowing. Then desided against that.
Thank you!
Yes I do. Thanks how is the skimmer situation?
Thanks...
YUP more water movement = more evap. no way around that. However, I can tell you the top of my water column is nice and oxygenated with zero surface skimmate. Unlike all of my previouse "reef ready" tanks that always accumulated surface sludge. this design beats out even a coast to coast overflow system. anything that collects on the surface goes over the sides immediatly. Thats a nice trade off. But yes I get 4 gallons of evap per 100 gallons a day. I also encourage evaporation cooling via fans. so when I kick on the room AC and maintain temp outside and in the tank evenly there is less evap. An ATO is key to a system like this.
as for the drainage system... Take a look at this thread. You will not be sorry you did. The best system out there, hands down. Beananimals deisgn is incorporated into my system but of course I had to modify the concept due to the unique tank I'm dealing with.
here is the link:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1310585
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- Location
- Westchester NY
this is my closed loop befor sand went in:
- Location
- NY
That's looking very plenum-like for starters.
swimmer
swimmer
DrHarryLopez
Advanced Reefer
- Location
- Ozone Park, Queens
Plenum good or bad? Thats what I used 7 yrs ago when i started with a 40g and 4" of a DSB. That tank eventually became my refug until last yr when i severed it from the main display. I was thinking it went stale and was leaching out bad things.
- Location
- Westchester NY
I'm going to assume you mean a plenum filtration system??? The egg crate material has got you thrown off. This is going to be a shallow reef sand bed... approx. 1"-1 1/2" thick. The egg crate is there to keep the bottom 1/2" of sand from shifting.
Personally I am not in favor of plenums for a reef or fresh water tank. I think those systems crash at one point or another.
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- Location
- NY
Many years ago plenum filters had their place in reefing history & progress. I'm not a fan of them anymore either.
The picture with the eggcrate was definitely the one that was reminiscent of a plenum filtration system. I would sooner put the sand (even at 1"-1.5") on the tank bottom without the eggcrate and allow your sand sifters to do their job.
Russ
- Location
- Forked River, New Jersey
im ver impressed, tank looks amaizing!! great job! how is the noise? and do you have any pics of your sump in operation? what is your gph on your closed loop system? i really like it!!
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