The Best of Both Worlds

I'm looking for some advice.

1) The fish room will be in the space directly under my stairs. I am planning to drywall it to keep the dust from the furnace room (directly next to it) out. I plan to have glass lids on the two 90's, but not on the skimmer portion of the 30 gallon sump. Do I need to worry about humidity? I can put an air vent into the furnace room if that helps. Not sure if I need some fans to suck the air out.

2) Will the Eheim 1262 be able to handle a 11 foot horizontal push? It's also going up 5 feet and through about 6 x 90 degree elbows.

3) I have 4 drains holes on the external coast to coast overflow box. I was planning to do a beananimal, and use one hole for the return. They are 1" drains. Should I adapt the PVC to 1.25" pipe instead of the standard 1", and have that running to the sump?

Thanks for looking. Drywall is still about 80% done. This will still be a long one.

The good news is that I got the tank. It's been curing in my dining room for the past week. Thanks Concept. James built an awesome tank.

Denny (never met you before) apparently boxed everything up so Dave could only find 3 bulkheads. There are 3 holes on the right and 1 on the left. I should have had them spread out more. Oh well.



This is a one piece acrylic background that was glued to the inside.



And finally, a custom hand cut overflow weir.

[Skimmerking]

i like it

[Arok3000]

Looking good, are you having Concepts building you an identical tank for your discus?
The Eheim 1262 has nearly 12' of head capability, so I think 5' with a few elbows should be fine.

Thanks for the comments.

I most likely will go with Dave again for the discus tank. They are still small juveniles (less than 4 inches) so it will be awhile before they move to their new home. I'm also planning on having the exact same setup for the discus tank, except I will also incorporate two canisters to it. The sump will be a refugium for hornwort and auto water change.

The Eheim 1262 has to run 11 feet horizontal and up 5 feet total (gradual slope).

[The Guy]

I like your plans of what you are doing, keep the pictures coming, looks great so far.

Okay the drywall is up and were onto the 2nd coat of drywall mud. Still 3 more coats to go before we can paint.

I decided to add more rock to the display. Let me know what you think.



My corals are still bleached and faded, still trying to bring the colors out.







I want to add a sand/crush coral substrate on the new tank, but I don't think I'll be able to keep it clean. There's just too much rock covering the sand. Also, my water flow inside the tank will be about 120x turn over.

Moving the sumps and refugium into the fish room has definitely given me lots of space under the stand. I'm going to keep the drawers in the stand. I bought the wood for it so hopefully I can reinforce it this weekend.