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hey yall!!! Ok my first build thread I hope this goes well!!!!!
I'm switching over from this 92 gallon bownfront
to a 310 gallon planet aquarium tank. Been waiting for its for a while!
So while waiting for the tank to get here i went ahead and made a mock tank to aquascape my rocks.
After the rockscape was done it was preety push the waiting game waiting on the tank to come. And also doing some research on how I wanted things to go. Did alot of research on lighting and plumbing and the sort. I dont have pictures yet of light but will be posting up later i went with 3 radion gen 5 pro and 8 4 ft t5 dimmable bulbs.
Plumbing was the harder thing to figure out since I made the mistake and forgot to ask planet aquarium to increase the drill hole size cause i found out after the fact that the cor 20's hav event head pressure using 1.25 plumbing. But neptune. only has 1/2 inch 1 inch and 2 inch flow sensors. I thought they had 3/4 inch. So unfourtunutly for me after a phone call to brs I was told that any unfit to a 1 or 2 inch or down to the half inch won't read and or work correctly.. so i bought pipe accordingly.
As the date is approaching the tank to get to my house. We have some hiccups. The top won't fit on the crate with the tank and stand. So had to get it put on a new pallet. Then I waited for confirmation which never came So didnt have friends ready to help then bam I find out tank is gonna here to my house at 4 o'clock that day. Well since I had no friends I have to find some muscle instead
Tanks here !!!!!
I dont have pictures right now on the process of bringing in to the house in can post those later but here are the pictures after bringing it into the house with a little smoke pork BBQ and some beers
So now all the fun/stress starts to begin! Electrical is coming later but I kinda started on plumbing right now. And this is where I've gotten so far. I dont know whether I want the sump on right or left ... does it even matter ? Is it preference ? I mean it seems to work for the way i need the plumbing orelse there are gonna be alot more runs in there !
Right now I running 2 cor 20 one routed in 3/4 directly to on return and the second is routed in 1.25 to a manifold here it goes down to a lifeguard aquatics pro max 90w uv then meets back up with itself on the other side to a return as you can see jn the picture. This set up works out preety well. BUt was told that the drains may actually be too short. So im really open to all types of suggestions . The other thing I'm worried about as well. Is if the wiring is gonna make it to the other side. As well. Now this is just a mock up nothing is glued in. So I can completly change it all around i guess I gotta get all my electrical in order to verify everything reaches.
So this is where I left off I had to go to work so when I get back ill keep on trucking at it. Like I said open to all the help I can get. Never really had any luck with my 92 gallon. So I need to make sure this 310 goes right.
To be continued!
I'm switching over from this 92 gallon bownfront
to a 310 gallon planet aquarium tank. Been waiting for its for a while!
So while waiting for the tank to get here i went ahead and made a mock tank to aquascape my rocks.
After the rockscape was done it was preety push the waiting game waiting on the tank to come. And also doing some research on how I wanted things to go. Did alot of research on lighting and plumbing and the sort. I dont have pictures yet of light but will be posting up later i went with 3 radion gen 5 pro and 8 4 ft t5 dimmable bulbs.
Plumbing was the harder thing to figure out since I made the mistake and forgot to ask planet aquarium to increase the drill hole size cause i found out after the fact that the cor 20's hav event head pressure using 1.25 plumbing. But neptune. only has 1/2 inch 1 inch and 2 inch flow sensors. I thought they had 3/4 inch. So unfourtunutly for me after a phone call to brs I was told that any unfit to a 1 or 2 inch or down to the half inch won't read and or work correctly.. so i bought pipe accordingly.
As the date is approaching the tank to get to my house. We have some hiccups. The top won't fit on the crate with the tank and stand. So had to get it put on a new pallet. Then I waited for confirmation which never came So didnt have friends ready to help then bam I find out tank is gonna here to my house at 4 o'clock that day. Well since I had no friends I have to find some muscle instead
Tanks here !!!!!
I dont have pictures right now on the process of bringing in to the house in can post those later but here are the pictures after bringing it into the house with a little smoke pork BBQ and some beers
So now all the fun/stress starts to begin! Electrical is coming later but I kinda started on plumbing right now. And this is where I've gotten so far. I dont know whether I want the sump on right or left ... does it even matter ? Is it preference ? I mean it seems to work for the way i need the plumbing orelse there are gonna be alot more runs in there !
Right now I running 2 cor 20 one routed in 3/4 directly to on return and the second is routed in 1.25 to a manifold here it goes down to a lifeguard aquatics pro max 90w uv then meets back up with itself on the other side to a return as you can see jn the picture. This set up works out preety well. BUt was told that the drains may actually be too short. So im really open to all types of suggestions . The other thing I'm worried about as well. Is if the wiring is gonna make it to the other side. As well. Now this is just a mock up nothing is glued in. So I can completly change it all around i guess I gotta get all my electrical in order to verify everything reaches.
So this is where I left off I had to go to work so when I get back ill keep on trucking at it. Like I said open to all the help I can get. Never really had any luck with my 92 gallon. So I need to make sure this 310 goes right.
To be continued!
