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mb5322

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My Project!
« on: October 22, 2006, 09:08:45 »
I started my "project" a couple of days ago, I'm building a "aquarium" room, as well as a family room. So far so good, I'm going to finish drywalling today, and run all the electrical work. The tank is a 240 gallon 8x2x2, which I intend to be a full blown reef, if I can ever get the construction work. I conned Scott Wilson from Just Corals into plumbing and setting up the tank. Scott is a great guy and has been nothing but helpful in my million questions. Sorry for the mess, but I'm still under construction. Hopefully all will be done and the tank plumbed soon. I'll post pictures as I move along.

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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2006, 09:22:24 »
great start so far, i look forward to seeing your progress.
That one guy who used to be on all the time......

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« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2006, 09:46:54 »
Very cool!  It will be fun to watch as your project grows.  Scotts a good guy. :)

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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2006, 10:52:25 »
looks great..

tell me about all the goodies

lighting?
skimmer?
type of tank(sps, mix, fowlr)

its great having equip in a different room... keeps the noise down a good ammount.

mb5322

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« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2006, 12:13:05 »
looks great..

tell me about all the goodies

lighting?
skimmer?
type of tank(sps, mix, fowlr)

its great having equip in a different room... keeps the noise down a good ammount.

to answer your questions:
No Idea
No Idea
and Mix reef

Sorry just haven't gotten that far yet, but Scott has some great ideas, but we need to see what the budget is going to be after the construction, new carpet and family room set

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Re: My Project!
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2006, 14:52:17 »
Awesome!! I'd love to do something like what you're doing!!

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« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2006, 18:01:23 »
check out www.hellolights for MH

go with electronic ballasts... theyre nicer,

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« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2006, 18:19:41 »
Who is the maker of the tank? I noticed that you do not have plastic trim on the top or bottom of the tank. Is it a custom built unit?

mb5322

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« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2006, 18:55:04 »
Who is the maker of the tank? I noticed that you do not have plastic trim on the top or bottom of the tank. Is it a custom built unit?

Not sure, I got the tank Through a guy Scott Wilson from Just Corals knows.

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« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2006, 19:04:37 »
I see.

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« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2006, 19:55:13 »
If you are going to have SPS, MH lighting is a must.  :)

mb5322

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« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2006, 23:59:02 »
Ran into a million problems today, but finally at 11:55 p.m. I'm sitting down with a beer, and all the drywall and electrical work done, drywall gets first coat of mud tomorrow. Not to many interesting pictures, the only thing remotely tank related is my soon to be "power" wall of plugs I put in.

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« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2006, 00:17:33 »
nice work

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« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2006, 00:39:21 »
You are doin all the work yourself? Wow great job. When do you plan to have it all up and running? Do you have a projected time?

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« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2006, 08:32:31 »
Cool!  Building our house ourselves was one of the funnest things I've done!  I can appreciate being excited about drywall mud.  ;D

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« Reply #15 on: October 23, 2006, 09:14:52 »
The tank is a old oceanic tank it is a beast. IT has a double 3/4" bottom the overflow in sin the center of than tank.  The largest challenge this tank poses is it only has access holes in the top. It has 3 foot x foot or so access holes. This is really restricting. There was some talk about cutting the top to open it up more and adding eurobracing. Not sure if this is a god idea.  Any one have ideas about how to cut the top of a constructed tank?   

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« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2006, 21:45:54 »
Just a thought, and it might be totally off the wall, but I know when taking a car windsheild out one method is piano wire. Just feed the wire between the top peice and tank (wear protective gloves) then start working your way back and forth until you seperate the top peice of glass. I have never done this to a tank only cars, but the concept seems like it would be the same.

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« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2006, 23:43:29 »
Just a thought, and it might be totally off the wall, but I know when taking a car windsheild out one method is piano wire. Just feed the wire between the top peice and tank (wear protective gloves) then start working your way back and forth until you seperate the top peice of glass. I have never done this to a tank only cars, but the concept seems like it would be the same.

This would work to take it off, but there are no plastic pieces along the top and bottom edge like a normal tank, the top piece provides support like the plastic pieces would for the sides.

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« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2006, 10:59:05 »
OK, Hardware for the tank ordered today:
2 Dart water pumps @ 3600 GPH for closed loop
1 Dart water pumpt @ 2500 GPH for sump/refugium/skimmer
2 Oceans Motions 4-ways (upgrading with motor and drum later)
1 Octopus DNW-200 Needle Recirculating Skimmer
1 75 Gallon Refugium

Tentative install date of Saturday the 28th of this month

All hardware and installation courtesy of Scott Wilson from Just Corals
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« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2006, 20:28:29 »
COOL!

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« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2006, 00:29:04 »
Sounds like your gonna have a great system. Can't wait to see the finished product.

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« Reply #21 on: October 29, 2006, 17:53:02 »
I got the ceiling textured  today, now I'm just waiting for some of the drywall mud to dry on the walls so I can paint.......color of paint chose....Beach sand between your toes...of course, I did get the stand built for the refuge and got a coat of killz on everything in the fish room. The tank hardware installation got pushed back to this Friday, my oceans motions got hung up in customs in Canada so blame it on the Canadians. Carpet is getting laid tomorrow, and all new furniture delivered Friday. I'm slowly but surely starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel


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« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2006, 18:35:50 »
From the height of the table it looks like it will be a gravity return fuge, is this right? Everything sounds great, keep up the good work.

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« Reply #23 on: October 29, 2006, 18:50:56 »
From the height of the table it looks like it will be a gravity return fuge, is this right? Everything sounds great, keep up the good work.

yeah it will be a gravity return, with fairly low flow through it

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« Reply #24 on: October 29, 2006, 19:36:00 »
Looking nice!!! You'll have to host a meeting after you get it done so we all can see it in person!!!

 

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