280g Inwall

Delphinus · #1 10-06-2010, 05:12 AM

I guess it's still something of a work in progress.

It, .. um .. didn't quite go as optimally as it could have tonight. Remember how I said I had spilled PVC primer and was worried what the styrofoam looked like? It turns out it was pretty nasty. So it had to be replaced. Ran over to HD, picked up a piece of new foam and so we rotated it 90 degrees to get the old one off. When rocking it back onto the new foam, the skimmer feed pipe valve handle thing hit the ground and poof, the front panel was done for.

So .. yeah Brett you totally called it, the bulkheads were gonna be the end of the sump as it was.

Jay's going to cut a new piece, I think we'll step it up to 10mm since the front still needs to be drilled for the sump return pump ... I might as well leave the skimmer feed hole undrilled and figure out a different way - yet again - of feeding the skimmer. I'm sort of back to going to an overflow fed system but maybe T'd off somehow so it is only a partial diversion into the skimmer.

So, given that this "good deal" of a sump I originally bought is turning somewhat into the six-million-dollar man .. er, I mean sump ... ,,,, at least it should emerge from all of this as better, stronger, faster.

Quote:

Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

I'm totally naming my sump Steve from now on.

reefcanada · #2 10-06-2010, 06:24 AM

I am so sorry for that again Tony, I will see you and Steve on Thursday.

lastlight · #3 10-06-2010, 09:01 AM

Doh! I wish I'd been wrong about that. I'm saying a few reefPrayers for you man. You're pretty damn close now. Is the tank salty? I can't recall now.

Delphinus · #4 10-06-2010, 04:01 PM

No salt. I can't even really get at the tank at all at the moment since there's a pile of glass in the way. I figure it will be at least a week after the silicone is applied before I even attempt to continue filling or start mixing or aquascaping.

I might focus on getting the 40g built up and the carpet tank inhabitants moved over to their temp home and start cleaning up the semi-cube and plumbing that in. (Once the sump is reassembled and slid back under the stand, that is.)

fishytime · #5 10-07-2010, 02:44 AM

Dude!......maybe all this lighting fast progress lately is a bad thing

.....kidding aside Tony, sorry for your run o bad luck

Delphinus · #6 10-07-2010, 04:14 AM

Thanks dood! It's ok. I was pretty bummed about things but .. meh, what can you do. If there is a silver lining, if things were gonna fail like this it's better that they do so now and not once the tank is running. So ... maybe it's not so "bad luck"-ish if one looks at it that way.

lockrookie · #7 10-07-2010, 05:08 AM

if it makes you feel better i broke my overflow twice in one month even better in less than 3 weeks once was the back anel of the overflow lifting it thesecond the bottom panel. i think when it comes to builds you have to take the mentality of "thank god it wasnt the main display glass" cause things could be worse.
even with all your mishaps you still have one rocking tank that in the end will be the envy of the neighbourhood. well im envious anyways