Custom Lagoon Book End Tank Design with Waterfall

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Any body want to bring over two hundred gallons of salt water? . She’s ready for water. I just need to run the light wires through the wall and then we can fill her up. The canopy and stand should be ready by the end of the month.

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Any body want to bring over two hundred gallons of salt water? . She’s ready for water. I just need to run the light wires through the wall and then we can fill her up. The canopy and stand should be ready by the end of the month.

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I love the scape with the Stax Rock. I almost went with the same style you have gone with where they are spread out like substrate but I was worried about trapping detritus. How are you going to handle that?
 
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I love the scape with the Stax Rock. I almost went with the same style you have gone with where they are spread out like substrate but I was worried about trapping detritus. How are you going to handle that?
I’m hoping the flow helps but I do expect that it will require a bit of maintenance. Time will tell. I plan on doing weekly water changes so I expect that I will be syphoning the rock floor.
 

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I’m hoping the flow helps but I do expect that it will require a bit of maintenance. Time will tell. I plan on doing weekly water changes so I expect that I will be syphoning the rock floor.
I put most of my Stax on eggcrate risers so there could be flow underneath. You have a lot of rock in there so that maintenance might not be too much fun. Have you epoxied that all together yet or is it just stacked loose?
 
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I put most of my Stax on eggcrate risers so there could be flow underneath. You have a lot of rock in there so that maintenance might not be too much fun. Have you epoxied that all together yet or is it just stacked loose?
No epoxy yet.
 

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Hey Omar,
Looks great! How's the waterfall going to work? I imagined a cutout middle portion of the center tank on each side or a slide that would guide the water to the other tanks, but I am not seeing that. What's the plan? Fill this puppy up and make a movie so we can see it!
 

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Yes. Planning to draw up. I’ve heard that this could be a problem as well. It’s something I’ve got to work through. I don’t think drawing the water up is the problem. I think starting the pumps dry is the concern. I guess I should call eco tech and get their input before I glue things together.

What did they say?
 

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. It wasn’t going to work. I moved two into the sump and the larger M1 into the electronics cabinet.

That’s what I suspected. Pumps with more output tend to have larger tolerances around the impeller, to decrease friction etc. They cannot prime themselves
 

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Any body want to bring over two hundred gallons of salt water? . She’s ready for water. I just need to run the light wires through the wall and then we can fill her up. The canopy and stand should be ready by the end of the month.

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Gorgeous, me jealous. Thanks for sharing, comrade
 
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