Rimless 8ft Planet Aquariums Reef

najer · Nov 16, 2018

Looking very nice.

Aquainas · Nov 16, 2018

Toomnymods said:
beautiful setup. love your attention to detail.. you'd have a heart attack if you seen the plumbing and wiring under my 220, lol

Thank you! I appreciate you stopping and checking it out. I won't deny it, I probably would, lol!

hfx987 said:
looking great

Thank you!

Aquainas · Nov 16, 2018

najer said:
Looking very nice.

Thank you very much! Stick around, the sticks are about to join the party...pun intended.

Mark Gray · Nov 16, 2018

Looks great really nice build will follow along

SD_Reefing · Nov 16, 2018

That's a really awesome looking setup you got there.

Corals.com · Nov 16, 2018

Looks awesome so far! Nice work!

don_chuwish · Nov 16, 2018

Love the setup - especially the aquascape and remote sump. That bare naked steel stand is gorgeous. But I'm confused by the drains where they enter the sump - I see valves on two of them and flow sensors on two of them. Which ones are full, partial and emergency?

Blue Spot Octopus · Nov 20, 2018

Nice build, you could use the glass from the hole saw for coasters. Funny your are going to use the nice bathtub for your skimmer. Dude I think you can afford a Utility sink, I wished I had one, no room.

biecacka · Nov 22, 2018

Great setup so, following along to see your progress. What sort of flow are you getting from your COR pumps thru the readers?

Corey

Snook65 · Nov 24, 2018

Repeating what the others have already said, but beautiful setup. I cannot wait to see some corals go in.

Aquainas · Nov 27, 2018

Mark Gray said:
Looks great really nice build will follow along

Thank you! Glad to have you following along.

pepe_silvia.33 said:
That's a really awesome looking setup you got there.

Thank you for the kind words

Corals.com said:
Looks awesome so far! Nice work!

Thanks alot, I really appreciate it!

Aquainas · Nov 27, 2018

don_chuwish said:
Love the setup - especially the aquascape and remote sump. That bare naked steel stand is gorgeous. But I'm confused by the drains where they enter the sump - I see valves on two of them and flow sensors on two of them. Which ones are full, partial and emergency?

Thank you so much for the compliments. It's taken alot of careful planning and execution, which is now paying off.
As far as the drains go quite simple really...Valve completely open is full siphon, and has flow monitoring, middle drain is emergency with flow monitoring, Apex is programmed to alert me whenever water hits...and third drain is partial with no monitoring as I expected some air in it which would affect the flow monitor.

Hope that clarifies it you you.

One of the benefits of monitoring the flow rate of the full siphon drain is knowing exactly how much flow is required to get the overflow dead silent, which happens to be 745gph. I can assume the partial drain is around 400gph since both return pumps combined are pushing 1160gph.

Aquainas · Nov 27, 2018

Blue Spot Octopus said:
Nice build, you could use the glass from the hole saw for coasters. Funny your are going to use the nice bathtub for your skimmer. Dude I think you can afford a Utility sink, I wished I had one, no room.

Thank you and what a great idea!
Pretty sure I did say I was kidding about using the tub as a slop sink