Squire's 90 Gallon Build, Now With Salt Water

[ensquire]

Been far to busy to spend much time on this project lately, DAMMIT.
But lotsa shopping online things are coming together for when I actually get some water flowing.
A few goodies:

From Concept Aquariums:




From BWA:


Set sump in place so I can get plumbing on the go.





Making 2 return lines , one with manifold for reactor lines and one direct return.

Direct Line






Manifold






I am still not sure about the overflow, but will fill with water and run it for a bit and see if the Durso works for me. Might have to drill a few more holes.
Looks like the pumps I have are big enough, but I think I am going to pick up a DC pump and try it out.

[FishyFishy!]

OOOOOOO I love getting stuff in the mail!! It's like christmas. Especially when they are nice gifts like the Ecotechs!

Nice progress

[gregzz4]

Oooo ... toys

[The Grizz]

I soooooo happy to see that everything is still in one piece

[Nano]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

I soooooo happy to see that everything is still in one piece

lol well you kinda build a bomb shelter around it!

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

I soooooo happy to see that everything is still in one piece

Smart*ss Stand is anchored to floor with 3/4 inch bolts and tank is PL400'd to stand. Ain't goin nowhere.

[ensquire]

A new toy to play with, I ran a poll on return pumps and this one looked very interesting to me. I talked to a couple of people who tried it and decided to try it.



Sorry about the french for the english speaking folks.



Got all the glass for the eurobrace, so that was the next step.









Getting closer now, Tweaked the plumbing to accommodate the different heights in pumps. Will be doing a leak test and run the pumps to see how the flow is working out.

[ensquire]

I know its only tap water, I know its crappy Iphone pics,
BUT IT IS WET... YEAH





So far there are no leaks and with everything running wide open there is good flow, I haven't had to throttle anything back at all and it runs very quiet with the Quiet One 4000. I haven't even tried the new pump on it.

The only issue I am having right now is that I am having a problem breaking the siphon on the return line when I shut the power off. As you can see by the following picture, I teed off and used dual loclines with wide mouth flows.
The top one is out of the water as soon as the pump is shut off. I think the problem is that the actual return line sits so low in the overflow. What do you people think? I could get rid of the dual locline and go with a single, but i was hoping to have that flow down low on the backside of the rocks.



I could just scrub the return line through the overflow and drill another return hole up high in the back and use the second hole in the overflow for a Herbie.

Just trying to get some ideas.