Fish Tank Room

[143MPCo]

"diy sump"

You drop into filter socks?

 

[choff]

First, I apologize for not saying this is an awesome build!

yes
I ended up cutting my pipe going into the sump at a 45° angle. The short end of the angle in 3/8" below surface.

YOU!! Are my hero, Blitzie.

I just cut a 45 and brought the pipe level up to about 1/2 and I restarted 5x in a row on the first shot. The secondary drain never had to go into full siphon mode. You have no idea how happy you just made me. This has been driving me crazy. I cut my pumps when I feed, so I needed to manually purge the air daily.

Avasquez, I run sockless. My DT split drains into a fuge and a FT that then both dump into my sump. My sump is a 125g show tank 6' long and I have an almost 3' empty section that functions as a settling tank. I periodically sweep that with a brine shrimp net of any detritus. Some makes it into the next chamber with my Skimmer, but almost none in the final return chamber.

I want any escaped nutrients from the DT to feed my fuge and FT and in turn want any pods from those tanks to make their way to the DT. Socks muck all that up....and I hate cleaning them. I wouldn't say I have polished looking water, but it's pretty clear and I don't have any nutrient or algae problems (nitrates <.5 and phosphates .02).

 

[143MPCo]

First, I apologize for not saying this is an awesome build!

Thank you @choff!

YOU!! Are my hero, Blitzie.


I just cut a 45 and brought the pipe level up to about 1/2 and I restarted 5x in a row on the first shot. The secondary drain never had to go into full siphon mode. You have no idea how happy you just made me. This has been driving me crazy. I cut my pumps when I feed, so I needed to manually purge the air daily.

Thumbs up to @Blitzie!

 

[143MPCo]

first snag... ball valves are too close together, easy fix just turn the middle one upside down.

 

[RossTheReefer1]

Wowww. No cutting corners here. Thanks for sharing, it's looking really nice.

 

[FlyinBryan]

Looking great! Hope you post video when it's up and running!!

 

[SaltySammy]

first snag... ball valves to close together, easy fix just turn the middle one upside down…

Why are these returns/supplies not labeled .... Muhahahahahaha :smile:

 

[143MPCo]

Sir, yes Sir.... lol... Soon...

Why are these returns/supplies not labeled .... Muhahahahahaha :smile:

 

[SaltySammy]

Geek! lol

 

[Masedaddy]

He is not a geek.... It's attention to detail!!! 1st thing instilled in my head into boot camp, well that and never volunteer for anything....

 

[Reef Junky150]

[emoji106] That's looking good

 

[SaltySammy]

He is not a geek.... It's attention to detail!!! 1st thing instilled in my head into boot camp, well that and never volunteer for anything....

Ya make me proud Mason..... Alex is still a geek though!

 

[143MPCo]

Nothin but LUV for my brothers in arms!

 

[Bryan47]

Having Alex help me with plumbing. I love the attention to detail!

 

[143MPCo]

Almost ready...

Promised myself I would only use 45's and no 90's... maybe I should have used some 90's lol...

Lowe's loves my business... lol

 

[143MPCo]

Over-flow on the grow-out... done

 

[143MPCo]

Video Update

 

[captc07]

Great build! I appreciate your attention to detail and how thought out everything has been.

 

[Vaiodude]

The room is looking good! I bet you can't wait to fill the system up with water!

 

[143MPCo]

That's an understatement, lol.

The room is looking good! I bet you can't wait to fill the system up with water!