Murdoch's 160G Tank Build

[doch]

You might be onto something here Dez. Fortunately for me, I found out that Rona in Fort Mac has PVC fittings. Wish I would have known that before running around the entire city on Sunday! hahaha

[doch]

Well... the stand is built The old tank is temporarily relocated to the bathroom The new tank is on the stand. The waveboxes are tucked neatly into their new holes. The lights are on top of the tank (and going to fit PERFECTLY)..... and the RO water is trickling (that might be overstating the matter) into the tank. I'm BEAT. Movie time. I'll see about pics tomorrow.

[doch]

PICS! First one's a test... the new tank in transport:

[doch]

SUCCESS!!!! WAHOO!

Here's the progress so far:

Kindly excuse the half arsed stand... the stucture is complete, pretty will come once me and my wife decide on a design.





top view of the back side:



The lights... you know, in case you haven't seen tek lights before! lol


The gear and piping which all make my basement look like a war zone.


Side view of the wave box... needs a little tweaking. Unfortunately that tweaking may involve 2 new motors. Damn.


And the last pic of the old tank (after the move into the bathroom). Unfortunately, this is not at it's prime. I'll see what I can do about getting a good shot of it when it looked nice.

[doch]

So, the plan as it stands is to let the tank get up to temp (or as close as it will come to it by the time I go to bed tonight) and put all of the rock that I have been cooking for the last 3.5-4 months in there. I'll likely also put some, if not all of the dry marco rock that I picked up in there. Tomorrow the temp should be good so I'll put in a few of the rocks from the 55. As long as it has no coral attached (maybe some tester zoas) I figure it can go in. Once that's done I'll get on 'operation plumbing'. and bring the piping over to where the stand will be in the fish room. Let that sit for a bit, then go and learn how to weld on my brand new 1940's buzz box donated by my sister. That sounds like a good days worth of work... hopefully by Thursday morning I'm ready for the last bit of plumbing, and I can transfer everything else over.

[Dez]

Finally, pics. Looks good. I would take the foam ring off of the wave box so that you never have to take them out to clean. I've only had to take mine out I think 2 or 3 times in almost 2 years - due to snail climbing in. If you take the foam ring off, you get less resistance also, making it a tad more efficient.

[doch]

Thanks buddy! And once again, thanks for the tips.

[doch]

Here's the freshly (and crudely) welded and painted stand that will house my sump on the bottom, frag tank in the middle, and the water change tank up top. Trust me when I say this... you don't need to see the welds! I just tought myself today!! hahaha.

What I did is took an old 90g stand, cut it to 40"W, rewelded it, then added the square tubing frame up top for the water change tank. All three levels will have a plywood base.



Now onto the plumbing! Ugh.

[doch]

Poorly ventilated basement + pvc primer and cement + a few beers = BAD IDEA!

I feel stoned... kind of tempted to call poison control. Meah..


The last two fittings that I had to do.... effed up. Oh well... back to Rona in the morning. LONG day. Started at 10am. Welded that stand, ate, started plumbing... finished at 1am... incompete. 97% complete.... but still incomplete.

[phi delt reefer]

looking good man - love the built in wavebox!