wil0311 270 tank build

[Blom]

Agreed. I love the idea of having a "fish room" in behind the tank. One day... thats what I keep telling myself. It looks great, really like how that crown molding turned out.

[wil0311]

Thanks for the positve feedback. It sure is nice to have that room in back of the tank. I need to put a vent in there to get rid of the heat and moisture. I can't beleive how hot and humid that room feels. Now I know why there was so much ice on my windows in the winter with the 150 just open top in the room.

[Leah]

It is not good to be this Jealous.....but that is amazing, I am just green, I keep coming back to drool a little. You did an amazing job on it. Hope your taking more picture's as
you go. Love it!

[mseepman]

Wow, the way this thread is put together, it sounds like you filled the new tank and 20 minutes later it looked that great after moving your old stock in. I'm assuming if you gave us the details there were days and days of work and stress there, right?

By the way, it does look great!

[wil0311]

Actually I picked the tank up from Saskatoon on May 9. So I have put in quite a few hours in the last 3 weeks. Some things still don't work right. I have to change my overflow plumbing. I have a herbie style overflow with 2 x 1" drains that join into an inch and a half pipe that goes to the sump. Can't turn the return pump on full, so I'll have to try 2 x 1" drains that go directly to the sump. Pics probably explain it better.

[wil0311]

Just glued the pvc and am going to try the new plumbing after I get off the computer here.
From this



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And I better organize this



Full shot

[mseepman]

Looking good.

I'm not sure how your change in plumbing is going to alleviate your problem. The whole point of a Herbie if I'm not mistaken is to handle the flow with the main drain and only handle "emergency" flow with the 2nd pipe. If you direct plumb both, I'm assuming you must be trying to take flow with both pipes which really changes you over to dual overflows and leaves you without the "emergency" backup.

I may be wrong though as I'm not an expert...I put a Herbie in my nano and made lots of mistakes so I've been trying to brush up on my knowledge a little more before my next build.

[wil0311]

I still have one overflow working as a siphon. I just thought maybe the 1 1/2 inch line might not be able to handle the return. So instead of joining them before the sump I just run each to the sump. But I still can't run my return pump wide open. Oh well I guess I'll just have to throtle it back a little. It's a dart pump about 3500 gallons per hour. Does anyone have a return set up for this kind of pump?