No problem, I just wanted to check in. Wasn’t sure if you saw the dimensions. I appreciate it!
Yeah. Unfortunately I was out of town for a week for work stuff and came home with issues with both of my vehicles so it's been a week.
We did not forget about you. As @tbrown mentioned, he has been sidetracked. I, too, have been busy (and lazy). However, I am working on the unit as I type this message. That said, I will blame Tim for the hold-up.
No worries. I really appreciate you all!
Here is what I came up with for the media caddie.
Wow. It looks great. Would there be one or two shelf pieces. I like the idea of 2 so I can put fleece on top, Carbon/GFO in the middle and some biomedia at the bottom.Here is what I came up with for the media caddie.
The olive part is clearly the main body.
The pink lattice patterned part is for the shelves/separators. This slides into the grooves seen in the olive body.
The blue part is the cover. You will see it has a v-groove in it. This slides onto the main body from the top.
I just need to double-check the measurements. I think.
I think Chris's has slots for 2 shelves. Mine has 2 "drawers".
Either approach is fine for me. I have plenty of media bags
I like this too.I haven't had a chance to mess with Chris's yet but here's what I have.
Two divided baskets. I can take the divider out if you'd preferred two single baskets.
Sorry. Just saw your post when you replied with this.
If you look at the front-facing, current design above, you'll see there are slots for three shelves. This will give you the three compartments. If there were two shelves then there would be two compartments. That said, I designed it with 3 but have since changed it to 2. The thinking being that if the bottom of your tank overflow weir is at 6" from the bottom, that top compartment won't be real functional. Plus, with a height of 7.75" and taking the location of the bottom weir into consideration, (leaving roughly 2" of unusable space at the bottom of the caddie) having three compartments will cause them to be less than 2" tall. Hope this makes sense as occasionally I do not explain things clearly.
I could potentially see a third shelf being a half inch or so just to hold a thin layer of PolyFil or some filter floss.
Sounds good! 2 or 3? I think Chris said he's reworking it for 2.
