Tonyscoots84's 80 gallon deepblue rimless tank upgrade

[Tonyscoots84]

i hate doing waterchanges there has to be an easier way....

 

[lnevo]

I pump all the water up to my basement into a big rubbermaid and then I run a hose from my reactors directly to the toilet. I hit a switch on my controller and it starts draining. As it's doing that it's replacing water from the rubbermaid like an ATO. It works very nice

 

[Tonyscoots84]

I have ran across a few problems with the tank but have corrected them. Did a few Huge water changes, so i think the tank is back on track.











OHHHHH JIMBO :party:










Randy Rainbow

 

[MikeC]

We all go threw it don't we lol, and if you haven't you will.

Looking good man

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks mike... Ive been through it all but this was prob. a fault on my end but i think its fixed

 

[nanoreefer22]

looks great brosef!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks buddy

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Ok here is the story of the night (like i needed this garbage)

I did a 20 gallon water change tonite all was good. Then i had changed out carbon and added phosban to another reactor that was offline. So i thought to myself what else can i do (Bad Choice) should of walked away at this point. I decided to take out airline part of the skimmer. I did that, cleaned it out and was putting it back on. I went to push it back in place and my hand and arm hit the side of the sump (crack all the way to the bottom) :banghead:. I quickly shut off overflow and return. ran around for a little bit saying ohhh noooo ohhhh noooo. It was leaking into my stand (which is sealed with killz and silicone around the edges and up in the corners (thankgod)

i got buckets that i had from doing the water change and sucked out the overflow/skimmer chamber. Take out the skimmer and start removing everything out of the sump. i look inside the overflow/skimmer chamber and come to realize that i have 2 baby bangai cardinal fish :biggrin: (made me happy). Although i took em out and put them in the tank. Hopefully they make it but doubt it. They where the size of a grain of rice. (My bangai has babies in his mouth again :biggrin

Just wanted to give an update on my tank situation. Everything is back up and running with the sump rich made me but no baffles. Tomorrow after work i will be off to petco to pic up another sump and get the baffles siliconed in (awesome more work) Got my new skimmer coming on wednesday :party:. I did not need this but in the end everything survived and i had a heart attack ......

 

[empire]

Lmk if you ever have any success wit the benggais. I wouldn't mind some!

 

[MikeC]

Wow that sucks, glad everything is under control for you now and good luck with the
bangais

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Hopefully i can have them grow out. They looked healthy from what i saw when i took them out of the sump. Not a problem empire...

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Thanks mike. All i gotta to say is thankgod for experience

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Next sump started

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

lol@MW3

I hate when I tell myself to stop....keep going and an issue arises! Luckily you were saved by your prevent method from the start. Congrats on saving everything!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Great use of old COD games..:lol2:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Thanks evoix

 

[jackson6745]

Doesn't a special package come today?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Yes it does rich :party:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

sump is done :biggrin:
I installed the last 2 baffles today around 6pm. From what i remember its cures in a day. Will do a water test tom. night and then install the sump.



New Skimmer

 

[Tonyscoots84]

New sump installed and up and running

Skimz sm203 dc skimmer running

http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums...2C410EE-5079-000004582095895C_zps1bb6d899.mp4