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02-23-2013, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 3,272
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NEW Tank Build !!!
I am pleased to announce the new tank build can now finally start. Thanks to Dave at Concepts for the amazing tank and stand, both are the best quality I have ever seen! The tank having a one piece Euro Brace and 100% star fire with unique total clear silicon.
The tank is 36x32x24 with external overflow. The sump will be in the basement about 8 feet below the tank.
The system will run everything we distribute one way or another but also form the basis for all future marketing photos for GHL equipment, for example the Mitras. The tank will run just one single silver Mitras HV.
Here are some photos I took at 1.45am this morning after getting off a plane back from Turks and Caicos getting in the door at 1.30am!! Something was bugging me! Did I measure our door gap right? will the stand fit? 30 minutes in the garage with a jenny bar and a tape measure confirmed my thoughts. Yep I measure wrong the stand wont fit, so it has to go through the patio doors, so now I have to snow blow the side of the house and around the swimming pool and get some lads over to get the stand through the rear patio doors. But before that the stand is off to a local cabinet makers to have a little mod done to it I did not get done during manufacture.
This will be a painstaking slow build, so next update will be a while
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03-20-2013, 09:04 PM
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looks great and the touch screen fits in without being in your face i like it.
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03-20-2013, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by The Grizz
Looking very nice Michael, would have loved to see the light hanger on this build but the ceiling hanger kit look so clean.
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Yep 100% with you on that I would of loved to show off your amazing handy work and it is so annoying I have had to wreck our ceiling by two hangers, but the damn soil pipe from the upstairs front bathroom is slap bang in line with the center of the tank along with the two hot and cold feeds  I was not going to risk murphys law and guarantee hitting one when I went to bolt the steel bracket
But one thing is for sure if anyone needs a wall bracket for their Mitras or other LED's talk to Greg or martin and Modular LED these units a re awesome. |
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03-20-2013, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Skimmer King
Nope it's the trickle feed stage that is cool I like that
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Its a trickle feed rubble DSB. |
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03-20-2013, 09:24 PM
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To explain the secondary bio chamber better -
Buried Under the rubble at one end is a small flow pump, this creates turbulance and flow through the rock as well as keeping it free of gunk.
The other end where flow is limited is the DSB.
The carbon and GFO returns into this secondary stage which is the water feed for this area at a low flow rate, so the water is circulated many times before re-entering the system.
There is a small weir to the rear of the sump where the water is returned to the main sump
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03-20-2013, 09:32 PM
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you've got to be the only person using vortech shrouds to prop their skimmer up LOL. ballin'!
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03-20-2013, 09:33 PM
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 these are from old wet sides we accumulate. good recycling!
Trouble is they move about so will have to think of something more inventive. |
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03-20-2013, 09:39 PM
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One thing I would like to mention is the ATO and how it is direct feed from a solenoid.
BE VERY CAREFUL here, if you install them the wrong way round they will not work for long, jam open and flood your system, mine came with a red mark on the feed side, if your does not, please ask the supplier.
I will be fitting a secondary higher level mechanical ball **** (Oh please!! the word C-ock is not aloud! ref **** Ball Co-ck there ive said it!) supplied by Bubble Magus as a get out of jail card also.
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03-20-2013, 11:31 PM
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With your dosing system Michael, can the Profilux doser actually pull fluids up that distance? I know the holding containers should never be above the doser but that seem like a long ways to draw. I only ask for reference to when I get around to setting mine up.
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03-20-2013, 11:39 PM
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The GHL doser can pump (tested) up to 50'  |
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03-20-2013, 11:44 PM
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I'm running an MP-40 on the back of my Concepts tank with no issue. I also have an acrylic background and the tank is 3/8" glass. I'm not using the spacer, only the sticky rubber pad. How are you trying to run it?
Anyways, looks awesome. I like the Profilux touch mounted on the wall. I'm still amazed a single Mitras covers a tank that size.
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