Working on doing weekly water changes of about 30 Gallons. I'll do that for the next 5 weeks and then triton again.
I've also refreshed carbon, & added phosguard to get rid of silicates.
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i just went through your entire build thread...awesome !!
i also like the cad work, what did you use for the 3d piping? i was trying to get a block library to use on mine but ran out of time so i did it in 2d, yours looks better.
i wish i would have found your thread a while ago
Just finished reading all 17 pages. You have an great looking tank.
I like this build thread. What is the age of the floorboards. I like the dowels.
From the photos it looked like the boards were face nailed and filled or through doweled at the end of each board where they butt together.Thanks!
Not sure what you’re talking about with “dowels”?
The floor is just engineered hardwood floors over a concrete slab. Age unknown.
Love it!Nice build.
With some time in now, what has been your experience with the RO Elite 220 INT on your size tank?
Love it!
Hate the AGE tank. Will get back to this thread once my fiasco with them is finished. All I can say is, never buy A.G.E. (Acrylic and glass exhibits)
Hate the AGE tank. Will get back to this thread once my fiasco with them is finished. All I can say is, never buy A.G.E. (Acrylic and glass exhibits)
Can you elaborate a bit more? I was considering buying a large AGE tank in a few months...
I highly recommend against it fellow Marylander. (Where I used to live).
The stand they built for me is grossly underdesigned. Noticed the top beam and the legs were bending. Decided to put my education to work and ran a mechanical analysis on it. In a perfect world, perfect metal, no welds, no holes no nothing other than a perfect stand built with the dimensions they built = failure in compression just tank filled with water. That’s with no rocks no person hanging in it to reach the bottom to clean it. nothing.
People didn’t want to believe my math (or just didn’t want to read it) so I ran a computer simulation. Perfect stand shoes failure in compression and max top beam of the stand deflection down by about 3.25mm. In real life I’m seeing 4mm gapping between the top deck of my stand and the bottom of my tank.
Simulation: load applied is ONLY tank and salt water to fill it. No rocks no equipment.
The deflection shown is exaggerated by 10x so you can see the failure modes but the deflection value is exact.
Will post more later at happy hour drinking beer