My Shallow Dream Build 60" × 30" × 17"

[smiley28]

Josh you’re slightly making me feel better towards what I have coming. I’m pulling for ya cause I know plumbing can be a pain in the butt and with what? Several additional bulkhead? It’s no easy task.

 

[JoshH]

Josh you’re slightly making me feel better towards what I have coming. I’m pulling for ya cause I know plumbing can be a pain in the butt and with what? Several additional bulkhead? It’s no easy task.

Thanks for the positive vibes @smiley28 I could really use them. I drained the tank again and will be tackling this when I get back from work on Tuesday. It certainly isn't an easy task in the slightest. However I'm certain I'll figure it out eventually, even if it requires a new tank Kidding!

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Hope you get the odd ends tightened up and move on bud. That's a lot of glued points to get perfect the 1st time.

 

[Victoria M]

I knocked on wood for you.

 

[Ferrell]

So, I went and picked up the sump on Thursday, but didn't get a chance to take it out of the crate and have a good look at it. So finally after getting home late lastnight this morning we unpacked it from the crate to play around and check it out. First impression was wow this thing is HUGE and secondly I LOVE IT!!! So much space to work around and lots of room for everything I need to put in it. Thirdly this thing is built like a tank. 3/8" Acrylic on all walls, top and bottom, all joints are daddoed in for a triple sided bond. Everything looks immaculate and is VERY well assembled.

It was such a fun build working with @Elder1945 at Adaptive Reef and I look forward to working with Kyle again on a few more projects down the road.

Filter sock chamber that can be switched out with a filter floss basket...

Skimmer chamber with outlet for reactor pump....

Reactor and return section in the back center, up front will be my frag tank/grow out section, something I needed to incorporate into the sump as I don't have the extra room elsewhere to do so. My plan is to cover the entire bottom with 1" Marine pure plates and place frag rocks over them.

And last but not least, my Fuge section...

Tomorrow I'm going to start plumbing my Closed loop and hopefully leak test sometime in the coming days.

Sorry Im late on the kudos but just got caught up on your build. Great Job @JoshH and @Elder1945. That is just a work of art. and I am in awe of this creation.
NOOOOWWWW I cant wait to see the Pedestal that The King of Sumps gets to sit on... I mean what is a king without a throne?

 

[JoshH]

Great Job @JoshH and @Elder1945. That is just a work of art. I am in awe of this creation.
NOOOOWWWW I cant wait to see the Pedestal that The King of Sumps gets to sit on... I mean what is a king without a throne?

Thank you @Ferrell !!!

You actually bring up the next item on the build list and that is a custom shelf for the sump to sit on. Start time on this hasn't been set in stone as of yet, with this virus going around things are shutting down all over unfortunately. However, if I do get to the stage of mounting the sump and the shelf isn't done, it will be placed on a temporary shelf until the permanent one is made.

Hope you get the odd ends tightened up and move on bud. That's a lot of glued points to get perfect the 1st time.

Thanks Rich!

I hope so too, I'm sure a bit more elbow grease is all it needs, really the frustration lies in filling it up and emptying it over and over again. It's just tap water thankfully but I still consider it extremely wasteful especially given the amount of fill ups I've done so far.

You are definitely right with the glued joints, I couldn't believe none of them leaked and still haven't leaked. And with all the frustration I am extremely grateful for that. Atleast I know my gluing skills aren't in question

I knocked on wood for you.

Thanks Victoria!

Hopefully you doing that works much better than when I did it

 

[Why-Me]

Woooo
Thank god you're building the sump shelf out of stone...that's a big sump!! ;Smuggrin

 

[cmaxwell39]

You will conquer this plumbing stuff, and when the tank is running and full of life, you won't even remember this struggle. Take your time and you will get it just fine.

 

[JoshH]

Woooo
Thank god you're building the sump shelf out of stone...that's a big sump!! ;Smuggrin

Stone shelf???? Hummm.... interesting idea.... ;Bookworm ;Writing

You will conquer this plumbing stuff, and when the tank is running and full of life, you won't even remember this struggle. Take your time and you will get it just fine.

Thanks man, I'm hoping I'll get this beast tackled soon enough. And I'm willing to bet you're right, eventually I'll forget about all this just like the scratches in my eurobracing ;Shifty I can't wait for the day when it is teeming with life!

 

[Katrina71]

I'll remind you. Lol. You can remind me too. You know we'll have at least one.

 

[JoshH]

I'll remind you. Lol. You can remind me too. You know we'll have at least one.

Such a good friend I sincerely hope you don't and as long as you're careful you shouldn't. Only reason I have some on mine is because I'm a bonehead.

Update: 1 hour with pumps at 100% and no leaks yet... Fingers crossed!!!

 

[crusso1993]

Such a good friend And I sincerely hope you don't, and as long as you're careful you shouldn't. Only reason I have some on mine is because I'm a bonehead.

Update: 1 hour with pumps at 100% and no leaks yet... Fingers crossed!!!

As it's already been said...

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Such a good friend I sincerely hope you don't and as long as you're careful you shouldn't. Only reason I have some on mine is because I'm a bonehead.

Update: 1 hour with pumps at 100% and no leaks yet... Fingers crossed!!!

;Singing;Singing;Singing;Singing;Singing

 

[JoshH]

;Singing;Singing;Singing;Singing;Singing

4 hours! ;Singing;Singing;Singing

 

[Kyl]

paste not teflon tape?

With plastic to plastic threaded connections, tape is not recommended by any manufacturer, rather paste is. The issue with tape is you can make it too easy to over-tighten a fitting. Short term it may not matter, but I had a SCH40 tee on my water storage vessel eventually split because of that.

 

[JoshH]

So, early on Spears did suggest teflon tape on there threaded fittings, Lasco on the other hand has always suggested paste. FWIW it is also pretty easy to overtighten using paste as it acts like a lubricant on the threads. This makes you feel like you need to keep turning until you can't turn anymore, this is where people usually end up splitting bulkheads because they go too far. The issue with tape is if it's too thin it won't work atall and even slightly too thick while you're tightening it the tape itself will bind and this can lead to cracked bulkheads especially. You can use either paste or tape, paste is infinitely easier to get right and why it's generally recommended by members (Myself included). Tape is not for the average joe to mess with and why I don't usually use it but I have before successfully (on a joint on my skimmer so if it did leak it wasn't a huge deal, even though it didn't).

 

[Kyl]

I use the plasto joint stick "crayon" on all plastic to plastic threads since my DT build. Hard to get up here now though that amazon doesn't carry it.

 

[JoshH]

This is what I use, It's a little thicker than the regular paste which is nice but makes it a little more difficult to brush on.

Just heading off to work and things are still dry so that's 8 hours now. Hopefully the wife doesn't wake up to a wet floor in the morning ;Bored

 

[NY_Caveman]

Very nice! Glad to hear you aren’t mopping.

 

[JoshH]

Very nice! Glad to hear you aren’t mopping.

Oh I've had to pull out the shop vac a couple of times, thankfully for nothing major. I'm still on edge about it though, don't want to get my hopes up just yet