Put my mixing station together. Continued with some more return plumbing, built a manifold off of my return line for some reason... maybe I'll use it someday, maybe not... who knows...
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Thanks Salty! It looks like I'm moving super fast, but it's only because I have most of this done already, and I'm really late doing this build thread. The tank is up and running at this point, but I can't give away the ending without writing the book first... I'm glad you like the details, sometimes I feel like I'm going overboard with them?Dude you are moving quickly considering how much you have done. Love the step by step updates
God love ya! I don't mind the demo to a blank slate, I just hate doing the actual demo MYSELF! haha I enjoy the building part and transformation.I love demo day! We renovated our whole house and I did all the demo. Love going back to a blank slate to make it mine.
As someone who isn’t as detail oriented as most here, I like to see the process, especially something as semi-permanent as a large in-wall tank and sump room. One thing I’ve noticed with larger projects, and even with my own tank, is that I would rather have done something superfluous and not need it than fail to do something that would really be helpful. The easiest time to do this is before everything is set up.Thanks Salty! It looks like I'm moving super fast, but it's only because I have most of this done already, and I'm really late doing this build thread. The tank is up and running at this point, but I can't give away the ending without writing the book first... I'm glad you like the details, sometimes I feel like I'm going overboard with them?
That sump looks sci-fi!OK... Time to get moving and start demo and building upstairs. But first, I figured it would be a good time to get some water cycled, break in my sump, establish some benefitial bacteria, and seed my old live rock that I had removed from my old system, that has been sitting in a tub of bleach. I bought this 100 gallon Rubbermaid tub. I threw in a DC pump and ran some temporary plumbing into my sump main drain, and removed the return pump that I had just drilled and plumbed on the opposite end of the sump, and ran a flex-PVC pipe to drain the water right back into the Rubbermaid. My good friend Domenic gave me a bio-brick from his well established OnPointCorals.com system to place into my refugium chamber! What a good friend! I'll let this water marinate the entire time I am upstairs building. I'll put some shrimp and feed it once in a while to get some ammonia going. This should give me a super head start on cycling the tank when it arrives.
Wife must have loved the massive hole in a wallDEMO DAY continued... Wife went to work and came home to a different house. But, all cleaned up and somehow I managed to keep the dust to a minimum. Plastic covering was a good idea... I was coughing up drywall dust for couple days... yeah I wore a mask most of the day. Did I say I hate demo?
Yeah believe it or not, she's cool with it. We've been together since high school and married 15 years. By this point she knows she can't stop me once I'm in "go mode". Although she doesn't have pre-vision skills, she knows that the finished product will be good and she trusts my abilities, thankfully.Wife must have loved the massive hole in a wall
Right???? Synergy gives you a ton of color options. I ordered the sump with black colored back wall and interior dividers, clear see-thru front and sides, and "Atomic Green" for everything else. I love it. I have a blue led light that I leave on at night. I took the glowing pics in the dark with the blue led light on. Looks like a black light the atomic green is awesome.That sump looks sci-fi!