My completly custom waterfall tank design and build from the bottom up.

[coralcruze]

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

I agree... However, with the amount of flow I have in the tank and the fact that I decided shallow reef early on and the sand being only 1 - 1 1/2" deep... I don't want sand blowing around. The eggcrate helps to keep the sand footing stable with the flow. without it the sand would blow and in certain spots would expose the bare bottom. It is working as intended so far but hope it would not impeade sand growth. From everything I have read about sand beds, all or most of the living bacteria live in the top inch of a sand bed anyway. Moreso a reason to keep the sand from blowing around in the tank.

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!!

Thanks...
Noise is not bad at all... I'm actually pissed my fans are louder than the trickle of the waterfalls.

sump pics to come soon... GPH of the closed loop is 2300 and is a hi-drive pump that is hard plumbed outside the sump. I could not be happier with the pump. it is efficient at 190 watts and super quiet and small for its class. I purchased two other pumps befor settling on the hi-drives. The main circ pump is a seperate pump rated at 1700 GPH, that one handles the return from the sump, waterfall overflow and two media reactors all plumbed off of a main riser line. There is also a built in water changing plug and cepex valve for control.

 

[coralcruze]

update:

a few pieces of equipment need replacement, namely a cal.reactor check valve and a co2 reg... vendor is making good on it but I just got all the cal and alk levels where I wated them and now have to shut it down to send the parts off. Oh well back to square one.

 

[wonderballz]

Hey Ben. That frag of the sinularia is doing well. Already pretty much healed to the rock, and it looking good. I'll take some pics and post them.

 

[coralcruze]

Hey Ben. That frag of the sinularia is doing well. Already pretty much healed to the rock, and it looking good. I'll take some pics and post them.

Thats great, glad to hear it. please post it. thanks

 

[rkaragozler]

I see you are using a hydrive, just make sure you put some sort of prefilter on the input side, I went thru 2 hydrive 2600's due to sand getting stuck in the impeller, also check your screws from time to time they made 2 versions of the hydrive, 1 used stainless stell screws and the other not.

 

[rookie07]

Hot-Damn.....very cool tank!

 

[coralcruze]

I see you are using a hydrive, just make sure you put some sort of prefilter on the input side, I went thru 2 hydrive 2600's due to sand getting stuck in the impeller, also check your screws from time to time they made 2 versions of the hydrive, 1 used stainless stell screws and the other not.

I see,

My hi-drive is the one with the stainless steel screws is that the good version? in terms of the screws you said check them from time to time...? what did you mean? check them for what? leaking?

I do have a plastic screen screwed onto my bulkhead but this will not keep out sand. wont a foam type pre-filter get cloged too often? also how long did you have your pumps befor needing to replace them... thansk for the info.

 

[coralcruze]

I will be posting progress shots soon if anyone is interested.

 

[wonderballz]

Nice Ben. Been curious to see how everything is going

 

[rkaragozler]

can't wait to see it?

 

[rookie07]

I'm very interested! Can't wait!

 

[DrHarryLopez]

Let it roll.

 

[TaboutMoney]

Thats a nice ass tank bro......i see theres alot of talented people on m.r

 

[coralcruze]

Sorry about that,

Just when all intentions are there... something comes up that stears you in the opposite direction. I took pics and need to find the time to upload. Thanks guys for your interest and comments... I should have new pics up tomorrow. if everything goes to plan.

also my closed look pump craped out on me so had to replace that. all good now...

 

[wonderballz]

Hey Ben. Hope all is well. Haven't seen any updated pics recently.

 

[Adam]

Amazing.. That's all I can say...