Glad to see you are back in business Paul, looking forward to seeing this build
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Glad to see you are back in business Paul, looking forward to seeing this build
If you are done with posting about the soccer world cup - chief, can we get an update on the tank?
How do you like that footprint?
Just catching up with this. I hope that tank holds and the wifes patience as well!!
Nice work as always Paul!! Merry Christmas!!!So the plan was to use Marineland Penguin 350 HOB filters for each of the two 55 gallon tanks I'm setting up to hold current contents of the old 90, while I put in the new 90. I pull them out and notice I'm missing one of the intake screen pieces that keep fish/snails/large stuff from getting sucked up into the filter. I looked high and low and can't find that one piece. Just my luck.
I'm not buying a whole new filter just because I'm missing one piece. So now I'm thinking of ways to DIY a fix. I was first thinking about using a large pipe fitting, and cap it off and drill a bunch of holes. In holding pipe piece to the uptake piece, it's noted that the clearance of the uptake pipe to the side of the tank was pretty small....I'll need a rectangular piece to clear the side of the tank. A circular piece just won't work.
Next though was my favorite shallow plastic outlet box...a little more than a buck at HD. I've used these before as project boxes.
Thought process is to cut a rectangular hole in the side of the box that friction fits to the intake pipe; cover the box with a piece of 1/8 inch plexi; go nuts with my drill press and put in a whole bunch of holes. But first thing was to cut off the two tails.
Acrylic was cut and attached to the box with stainless steel screws. Drilling began....
When I was done drilling, I had 122 holes in this box. Just to make sure I had at least the surface area of the uptake tube (0.7 cubic inches), did the quick calculation and found that I had 3.4 square inches of open holes....more than enough.
A little shot of paint, and I'm done....side by side original and DIY filter screen
This is going to work....wait a minute while I pat myself on my back....nice job! That was a waste of 3 - 4 hours...but moving on.
My second daughter just showed up with her husband and their beast, so I'm likely done until after the holidays.
Finally have the first of the holding tanks wet in anticipation of moving over all the corals and fish. First one wet was a 20 long. I thought I was fairly organized but spent about two hours finding the various parts. Couldn't find the filter pads to the the Aqueon filters, so I simply made one using filter pad material.
The second tank only took another 30 minutes. However, I still couldn't find the filter intake screen. Just won't put any fish into this tank...a 20 Tall. Here are the two tanks with the Fathom LED's overhead.
Heaters - It's been years since I've used a heater without a controller. Spent yesterday and the better part of today trying to dial them in. What a pain...guess and now wait 2 - 4 hours to let it adjust....and then do it again.
My thoughts now is to use the 20 long for large colonies that I can pull out. Going to try to "mount" them in a piece of 1 1/2 PVC that gets a hole just big enough to hold the base of the colony. Here's one of these "holders" with two sanitary tees on the ends. This is a little under 29 inches and will easily fit into the 20 Long. I think I pick up two more sanitary tees tomorrow and make a second one of these. Hope it works.
Continuing to make water to start to fill the two 55 tanks.
Juan @Juano908 , great to hear from you! I have a large hairy mushroom with your name on it! I know you liked that mushroom I have, and now have a number in the tank that need to be "weeded" out. Let me know what works for you.
Started the transfer of corals and anticipated some breakage, but not ending up with now eight colonies/frags of Neon Green Hammer. It just fell apart. I was expecting to get more than three corals into this 20 Long....only three different corals filling ten spots.....Neon Green Hammer, Hydnophora and Frogspawn. Just moved over, so nobody is happy right now.
I might have to pull out another tank. I still have a 40B in the fish shed.