Really like the rock work and the sump room looks great. Keep the pictures coming on the sump room.

My plumbing is nearly done! All that's left to do now is wait for the paint to cure on my return manifold and glue it to the flex pipe behind the tank.

Behind the tank.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/plumbing5.jpg

Here's the manifold. It's got 3/4" threaded outlets which will each connect to a pair of locline flares to direct flow towards the overflow etc. The trim on my tank is nice and tall and will hide it really well.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/plumbing1.jpg

Here's a shot of the two lines for my herbie and the return line heading into the sump.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/plumbing2.jpg

And two sump shots. There's a speedwave 2640 in the back and a vertex omega 150 and vertex rx-u 1.5L. I'm hoping I can tune the thing to run both carbon and gfo otherwise I'll add one more. The skimmer is built as well as my old sm250 I'm super impressed. I am waiting on a part that was missing from the box however so I can't comment on it's operation yet.

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/plumbing3.jpg

http://www.fishbrains.net/images/93/plumbing4.jpg

Have fun adjusting that gate valve :lol:

Did you use purple PVC primer on the return manifold first?

I've run herbies before how will this be more difficult?

No the primer I had is clear. I don't keep anything in my tanks that will scrape the paint off. Only the bottom 1/4 - 1/2" of the horizontal runs will actually touch the water.

Valve is downstairs tank is upstairs... certainly won't be as easy as typical setups and the large pressure on the valve means the slightest turn will make a big difference. I did it that way as well before, thinking it would be better but you can install the valve under the tank, works pretty much the same.

I was looking at your manifold wrong, thought it ran down the back of the tank and not the perimeter.

How will you know how much to adjust that gate valve?

Yeah you are right it's going to have tons of pull. I plan to FaceTime with the wife so I can see what's going on upstairs :)

murphey's law... the one time your network hiccups....:lol:

Looks like a lot of work to tear all that down in a few months. :lol:


Looks really good though. Typical Brett Style! :mrgreen:

You still need a gate valve if you have a Mitras??? Tsk tsk. Colour me slightly less impressed with that light then. :p