Squire's 90 Gallon Build, Now With Salt Water

[ensquire]

It can get a little tight, but manageable .What I did was use 1 3/4 wide bracing on the back and the side with the overflow. I have a double eurobrace on my tank, one layer all around the top and a second layer flush to the tank under first layer. I stopped the lower layer at the edge of the overflow. I will take a pic and post it if you need it.

Originally Posted by Ginu

Hey I was following your thread and I have a question in regards to the drain and eurobrace.
Do you find that the eurobrace gets in the way when cleaning or adjusting the pipes?
I'm thinking of getting a tank which i will eurobrace but wasn't sure how that would pan out.


Thanks,

[Ginu]

Originally Posted by ensquire

It can get a little tight, but manageable .What I did was use 1 3/4 wide bracing on the back and the side with the overflow. I have a double eurobrace on my tank, one layer all around the top and a second layer flush to the tank under first layer. I stopped the lower layer at the edge of the overflow. I will take a pic and post it if you need it.

Thanks for the reply and if you dont mind a pic would be awesome as it might help once I get started on a bigger tank.

Thanks,

[ensquire]

Stand is in the house..





Decided to put up some FRP board on the walls behind and on the closed side of the tank. Save the wall board from salt creep hopefully.







Built a manifold for future reactors if needed



Tank is sitting outside for a good cleaning, then going to fix up the back wall. I saw something on another tank that I want to try.
Have to get RO/DI producing water tomorrow and get tank into house.

[gregzz4]

Stand looks awesome in it's new home
Great idea with the backwall stuff
Nice lights you bought there too jealous

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Stand looks awesome in it's new home
Great idea with the backwall stuff
Nice lights you bought there too jealous

Getting ever so much closer, been a long time getting here.
Starting to get excited now.

[lockrookie]

Originally Posted by ensquire

Getting ever so much closer, been a long time getting here.
Starting to get excited now.

i know the feeling you just get to that point where hole crap im amost done.. then in my case it will be what will i do next lol def need a frag tank somewhere i think hehe. looking good bud.

[ensquire]

Finally got the tank close to home, Outside for a cleaning and for the last stage before putting iton the stand.
I saw a thread on another site that did a tile back wall and thought "what the Hell' Looked good.... gotta try it.













Weather has been amazing here so far this summer, was nice to be outside working on the tank, BUT time to get this on the stand.
Had a couple guys lined up to help me get it in the house, but that didn't happen so, and in light of what happened to the last tank, I wiggled it onto a dolly and ran it in the house by myself. Broke a vase and a 2x4 but tank made ther trip intact.
Thought about setting it on the stand myself but with the extra weight of the tile and the fact that I added an extra 5 1/2" to the height of the stand, thought that it would be best to wait for help.

[gregzz4]

This is going to be interesting

Keep the pics comin'

[ensquire]

Finally, tank and stand together in my house....



Still not 100% about the extra height on the stand, will need a workbench everytime to do any work on the tank. Try it for a while and keep thinking of all the work it will be to remove the 2 x 6. I have lots of benches kicking around from my drywalling days.




Version # 3 of my reactor manifold



Old sump all cleaned up



Plumbed and ready



Version #1 of my electical box. actually had to mod it once because I didn't measure how big the Radion Ballasts were and had to add 3/4" to the depth.
Used an old American DJ switch box from work for all those things I want to be able to turn off and on all the time. Have one GFI plug plugged to the wall and one GFI on a battery backup for one pump and a heater for the once a month power outage. Still have plenty of space for a controller EB8 in the box and even a few more boxes if needed. Ran the pump controller to the front with the switches also.

[gregzz4]

An old piece of airline or other hose, slit length-wise and stuffed over that broken glass, may be a friend one day