5gluder's 55g peninsula tank

[5gluder]

Hello,
I don’t normally post on here but frequent the forums a lot for information which I can generally find. Earlier this year I set out to build a 55 gallon peninsula tank. I previously I had a 33 gallon tank for 10 years, unfortunately a faulty heater cooked the tank. After a year I came up with a plan and decided to tackled it as my winter project….which continued into spring lol.
I choose to post this as a lot of my ideas came from tank journals so I figure others may benefit from viewing mine.

Day 1 decided this is the best spot to place the tank, the room is a bonus room above the garage.



Cut off the top tier to have a flat deck to work with, opened us under to check and see how I can run the plumbing from the basement.





I later decided that a 33 gallon was too small so I decided to widen the base…I also decided that the beige carpet was not complementing the tank enough so I ripped it out and installed hardwood everywhere



Following the electrical code I wasn’t going to splice into the existing wires(would have exceeded the number of allowable lights/ receptacles per circuit) to add receptacles for the tank. So I decided to run 2 dedicated wires from the panel



I received my new tank, 3 sides with starfire glass. I built a stand in the basement identical to the one upstairs. I wanted to do leak tests and figure out the bulkhead/drains in the basement before moving upstairs.

[MCC]

this going be an awesome build!

what are you going use for lighting?

[gregzz4]

Awesome planning 😃

[WarDog]

Looks cool. I always love the first few steps of a build! As I was looking at the first picture I thought for sure you were going with a drop off tank. Second picture... not so much! Following!

[FishyFishy!]

So are you doing a basement sump? Or is it going underneath the stand?

Killer location for a tank!

[riceboy]

From the looks of it it looks like the sump will be under the tank. By the way I love ur name I'll always have a sweet spot for preludes. 4th Gen srv are my favorite.

[shiftline]

It's looking cool. Nice work hiding the back wall

[5gluder]

Picked up some nice Pukani from Eli, decided to go with this design.



A large portion of this project was trying to figure out where to place the RODI and mixing tanks. So I built this ridiculous stand to hold 4 containers. Top will be a roughneck 14 gallon for RODI and a 10 gallon QT tank. Middle with be the SW mixing container and the bottom is solely to reduce waste water. Basically the discharge line from the RODI goes into this container and will be plumbed to the washer and outside line. A little giant pump that I had laying around will pump the water out. The black containers I purchased from Reno depot. I had done some testing with leaching and didn’t find any phosphates.





Added the Spectra pure 90 and a drinking water tank. I read some people had the RODI pipes/connectors fail, i had a floodstop sensor that i bought for the fridge. This sensor allows you to have multiple sensors so i installed one under the fridge and one under the RODI.



I bought a high head pump to pump the water up two floors to the sump. My initial goal was to have 2 pumps one for salt and one for RODI. I may still do this but for now i will stick with the one pump.



This is pretty much the final product.




Figured out all the place of the equipment in the sump



I had some led strips laying around so I decided to just stick those on, I’m waiting for a magnetic switch to come in, so the lights will turn on automatically when the door opens.

[5gluder]

So turns out i bought the wrong type of pump, i found the high head pump i bought started to rust so out it goes. I ended up ordering a Shurflo pump, hoping that will work.