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02-23-2013, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Ottawa
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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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03-11-2013, 10:09 PM
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MP40's installed  x 2
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03-11-2013, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Aqua-Digital
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i think youll find the mp40's are a perfect fit , on my cube i went with one 40 and one 10 i run the 10 on 100% and the 40 on 70% ,this is with a large substrate sandbed and a mixed reef , i imagine your going sps? if i had my time back i would have went with two 40's the 10 gets hot and is loud running on full.
the 10's dont have spacers, just the rubber spacer
cheers
denny
concept aquatics
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03-11-2013, 10:15 PM
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mixed reef this time steering clear of acros other than some stags.
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03-12-2013, 10:15 PM
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Durso suggestions for a silent life?
running two drains 1" tried the normal T piece with elbow down and hole in a end cap for air intake, but they are sooooo loud and the amount of air getting down to the sump is turning it into a jacuzzi.
The 8' drop has a lot to do with it.
So one for the experts here 
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03-12-2013, 10:17 PM
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why wouldn't ya...after all vortechs rock!!!
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03-12-2013, 10:20 PM
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I found that the 1" durso was way to loud so I went with 1 1/2" and made all the difference in the world.
Stay clear..... this Bear bites off limbs!!
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03-12-2013, 10:25 PM
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herbie will work. can't beat the silence of a siphon...
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03-12-2013, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by lastlight
herbie will work. can't beat the silence of a siphon...
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I guess I need to put a balancing valve in? If so can this go near the sump or has to go up by the tank?
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03-12-2013, 10:38 PM
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I always put the gate valve at the pipe's end before it enters the sump chamber. it needs to control the sihpon properly and because the water throughout the pipe is pulling downwards I think it has to be at the sump.
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03-12-2013, 10:42 PM
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Ok so what I have learned is this
drain 1 Durso style with balancing gate valve at sump?
drain 2 = open acts as overflow
You balance drain 1 until it stops sucking in air and drain 2 takes the excess water?

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