Anirban 200G peninsula of smoothies

[Anirban]

The other vendors are Bashsea, Geo, Avast and Lifeguard for the basic components. I will also point out some features which I incorporated and planned for the build.

 

[GoVols]

Anirban,
This is great... ;Woot ;Woot

tagging... ;Wideyed

 

[jsker]

Finally the tank is on the stand. I finished installing the doors and magnetic catches on the door. Leak tested the sump and skimmer and they are looking fine. Today I started with some overflow plumbing and dry fitting.

Here is the tank and stand together.

Wow nice job on the system

 

[Anirban]

Wow nice job on the system

Thanks man. Working on dry fitting the plumbing. Will put start updating the thread again from tomorrow.

 

[Anirban]

Anirban,
This is great... ;Woot ;Woot

tagging... ;Wideyed

Thank you Freddie. Welcome to new build.

 

[Perry]

Great start and super clean!!!

 

[jsker]

Thanks man. Working on dry fitting the plumbing. Will put start updating the thread again from tomorrow.

Ahhh I will check back tomorrow

 

[Anirban]

Great start and super clean!!!

Thanks Perry.

 

[Anirban]

Sorry for the delay, I almost finished the plumbing but was short of 2 colored 90 degree elbows so currently waiting on them. I choose blue and white for my plumbing matching my sump color. I have two octo varios 8 for return and redundancy. One will feed the Lifeguard UV and the other one can feed 2 manifolds.

A lot of people complain about noise from the overflow drain so I was looking for a way to add some secondary method to keep the noise down. Across different methods available I found Bashsea sumps comes with some slot pipes with silencer which are easy to fit in your existing plumbing. I got 3 of them and added them to my plumbing.

The plumbing was pretty easy and simple. I simply added what was necessary. I tried to avoid least amount twist and turns to avoid least flow restrictions.

Here are couple of pictures for sneak peak of the plumbing. They are currently dry fitted so share your input for a better idea.

 

[Lowsingle]

So clean looking, very nice!

Darren

 

[Anirban]

So clean looking, very nice!

Darren

Thanks, less thing to fix in case of emergency

 

[drawman]

Following. Love seeing this will be smooth skins!

 

[Anirban]

Following. Love seeing this will be smooth skins!

Thanks for following. It will be smooth skin. I love the way they look.

 

[minus9]

Looking good!

 

[jsker]

Sorry for the delay, I almost finished the plumbing but was short of 2 colored 90 degree elbows so currently waiting on them. I choose blue and white for my plumbing matching my sump color. I have two octo varios 8 for return and redundancy. One will feed the Lifeguard UV and the other one can feed 2 manifolds.

A lot of people complain about noise from the overflow drain so I was looking for a way to add some secondary method to keep the noise down. Across different methods available I found Bashsea sumps comes with some slot pipes with silencer which are easy to fit in your existing plumbing. I got 3 of them and added them to my plumbing.

The plumbing was pretty easy and simple. I simply added what was necessary. I tried to avoid least amount twist and turns to avoid least flow restrictions.

Here are couple of pictures for sneak peak of the plumbing. They are currently dry fitted so share your input for a better idea.

Now that is a really, really, really organized sump, there!!

 

[Anirban]

Now that is a really, really, really organized sump, there!!

Thanks man, I decided to keep it simple and clean this time. Simple systems are easy to maintain too.

Happy 2021 to you and your family.

 

[Anirban]

Aquascape coming tonight.....

 

[Anirban]

Since I plan this tank I always planned of a open aquascape. Recently people suddenly became very interested in negative space aquascape or in our old school term open aquascape. I always like the idea of an open aquascape where there is an open space for fish to swim while enough space for corals. Personally I dont like the look of marco rocks or other man made rocks. When I started planning the build 2 years back I knew what I wanted for aquascape. But at that time all the natural rocks were almost out of the market because of the ban. So, I found a place online who were still selling pukani, shelf and tonga branches. It was costly but I wanted to get the natural look. I used the E marco morter kit along with BRS thick glue to create the structures. Here is the final aquascape as promised.

 

[minus9]

Since I plan this tank I always planned of a open aquascape. Recently people suddenly became very interested in negative space aquascape or in our old school term open aquascape. I always like the idea of an open aquascape where there is an open space for fish to swim while enough space for corals. Personally I dont like the look of marco rocks or other man made rocks. When I started planning the build 2 years back I knew what I wanted for aquascape. But at that time all the natural rocks were almost out of the market because of the ban. So, I found a place online who were still selling pukani, shelf and tonga branches. It was costly but I wanted to get the natural look. I used the E marco morter kit along with BRS thick glue to create the structures. Here is the final aquascape as promised.

Nice! I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the look of Marco rock, it just looks fake to me. Maybe because I’ve been in the hobby since the 80’s and was spoiled on ocean rock? Keep up the great work!

 

[Anirban]

Nice! I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the look of Marco rock, it just looks fake to me. Maybe because I’ve been in the hobby since the 80’s and was spoiled on ocean rock? Keep up the great work!

And I thought I am the only one. I simply can not accept that fake look of those rocks. Also, the filtration affect of these rocks are well established. Somehow all these man made rock look all alike.