Fishroom Reality Check

[User]

Everyone is doing great- a little tired, but good.

Why do they schedule C-secs for 6am?...

 

[User]

Got a few minutes while baby slept to get this guy up on his stand...

 

[Dubs83]

How did I miss this?! Great build! Congrats on the new addition!

-Paul

 

[User]

Thanks Paul, cheers for stopping by.

It started off in the General diy section as a question about how to match costs with my contractor, then I got busy with baby prep and ended up using that thread to update and post pics. I only just recently asked Rev to move it and it’s kinda gone under the radar.

I’m hoping to get a bit more traffic once I have water flowing and corals growing - just need to persevere through the next couple months of the build.

Hoping to have water flowing end of this week, just have to do my BA drains and fill it up.

Thanks again for looking!

 

[User]

This happened...

3x 1” overflows from synergy reef shadow. Will be used as a BA. Only putting 7-800 through the box so an unregulated 1” emergency should keep up. Will have a float switch in the box to detect high water and shut off the rtn pump via an apex BOB.

Still to do the basement run, but that is for babies next nap time

 

[jrlg]

Congrats on the new family member, and a great build thread, the fish room looks great will be watching this for now on. Unless I get too jealous to continue that is.

 

[Dubs83]

Man, that fish room looks so clean! Mind taking a pano of it?

 

[User]

Man, that fish room looks so clean! Mind taking a pano of it?

I will as soon as I get back from babies wellness check. 2 weeks old today.

It’s a bit messy with plumbing but I’ll clean it up first.

 

[Dubs83]

Ah. Congratulations! Take your time! Priorities [emoji6]

 

[User]

Uugghhh- forgot about the pano- sorry. Soon.

I did manage to steal away a few 20 minute segments to do this- 1” BA returns basement run

 

[Dubs83]

This is awesome! Nice job on the plumbing man!

 

[User]

Cheers- much appreciated. I’m loving your build too.

Teaser pic- can’t figure how to upload video from phone...

 

[User]

Quick vid- sump test. Full system test on Thursday!

 

[Dubs83]

Quick vid- sump test. Full system test on Thursday!

what the heck is that silencer looking thing? And where do I get one??

 

[User]

That’s a “hoffer gurgle buster” and it works awesome. About $4 in pvc parts. Plans on google.

(Would help more, but about to do daycare run...)

 

[User]

Gurgle buster overflow demo

Really does silence the gurgling overflow. Now all I hear is the bubbles in the skimmer chamber

 

[mattgsa]

Nice build, and congrats on the baby.

 

[User]

quick 360 vid of the fishroom. sorry, no narration or notations. The sound is from my baby monitir- nothing is running during the vid.



Fragging/ testing bench
Frag tank bench for lowboy 50 with freezer underneath
BA Overflow from upstairs 180 DT into 29g water change/ detritus settling tank
Main sump 125g- skimmer, central return, 40g refugium
29g blacked out cryptic zone
Apex control board location
40b observation tank with fridge underneath (as soon as my neighbor returns it...)

 

[Dubs83]

That looks fantastic! Nice work sir

 

[User]

Thanks!!