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Very nice Sanjay!
10" sand bed going in there? :wink:
10" sand bed going in there? :wink:
My new tank 500G - (84X48X30)
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Yup, SouthDown, right 
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Holy crap!
that's all I can say!
Holy Crap!
that's all I can say!
Holy Crap!
- Location
- State College. PA
GratefulDiver":pw6a38uh said:
Yes, I removed the small 30" door and a window and replaced it with the double doors. All the things we do just for an aquarium.
sanjay.
- Location
- State College. PA
Ok.. you can stop twidling now.. here are some update pics.
Well, between travel, work, geting the basement work finished, delays due to missing parts, wrong parts delivered etc.... things got really bogged down there for a while.
But, a lot of progress has been made this week, and things are moving along again.
Tank is basically full with water now... no water in the sump yet. Holding off on that till I get the circulation pumps. I got the closed loops almost plumbed. Fired the first one last night.. and ofcourse there was a slow leak at the pump. Took it all apart and found that the pump had basically shredded the teflon tape. redid it with the thicker pink tape and that seems to be fine now. this closed loop return is split into a sea swirl and a fixed return. The pump does hold quite a bit of water after the ball valves are closed off.. have to get better at catching the spill.
As you can see I also put in a tee with a ball valve to allow me do do the water change and send the water directly into the drain that is near by via a tube that will be attached with a quick disconned when needed.
The second closed loop, is almost ready to get fired up. But I wanted to fire them up one at a time.. so I can debug each one separately. The second closed loop returns are 2 sea swirls.
As, you can see the lights are also, up and running.
Here is the lighting setup. i wanted something that would allow the lights to be easily rolled out of the way.
Using the light rail, and auxilliary trolley from Sunlight Supply. I used 2 6ft light rails giving me a 12 foot track to allow all the lights to be rolled out from over the tank. The diamond light lumen arcs were directly attached to the trolley. With the limited height available above the tank.. I wanted the lights to be as high as possible. The cords of the reflectors were cut and the quick disconnect adaptor that came with the ICECAP electronic ballasts were attached.
Here are the pics.
To open and close the front lid of the tank, I finally got the gas springs working right. After several trials with different sizes, I ended up with the 40 lbs version. It works great....keep the lid shut tight when closed and in the open position when opened. It has a nice slow open just like the car trunks.
sanjay.
Well, between travel, work, geting the basement work finished, delays due to missing parts, wrong parts delivered etc.... things got really bogged down there for a while.
But, a lot of progress has been made this week, and things are moving along again.
Tank is basically full with water now... no water in the sump yet. Holding off on that till I get the circulation pumps. I got the closed loops almost plumbed. Fired the first one last night.. and ofcourse there was a slow leak at the pump. Took it all apart and found that the pump had basically shredded the teflon tape. redid it with the thicker pink tape and that seems to be fine now. this closed loop return is split into a sea swirl and a fixed return. The pump does hold quite a bit of water after the ball valves are closed off.. have to get better at catching the spill.
As you can see I also put in a tee with a ball valve to allow me do do the water change and send the water directly into the drain that is near by via a tube that will be attached with a quick disconned when needed.
The second closed loop, is almost ready to get fired up. But I wanted to fire them up one at a time.. so I can debug each one separately. The second closed loop returns are 2 sea swirls.
As, you can see the lights are also, up and running.
Here is the lighting setup. i wanted something that would allow the lights to be easily rolled out of the way.
Using the light rail, and auxilliary trolley from Sunlight Supply. I used 2 6ft light rails giving me a 12 foot track to allow all the lights to be rolled out from over the tank. The diamond light lumen arcs were directly attached to the trolley. With the limited height available above the tank.. I wanted the lights to be as high as possible. The cords of the reflectors were cut and the quick disconnect adaptor that came with the ICECAP electronic ballasts were attached.
Here are the pics.
To open and close the front lid of the tank, I finally got the gas springs working right. After several trials with different sizes, I ended up with the 40 lbs version. It works great....keep the lid shut tight when closed and in the open position when opened. It has a nice slow open just like the car trunks.
sanjay.
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