alcoolaid's 200g Reef Build

[rynoe]

Did you get all the plumbing supplies locally?

[alcoolaid]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

Your plumbing looks great. Good work

Thanks!

Originally Posted by reeferfulton

I love your build so far.
Great job. I am a huge fan of tidy well organized systems.

Looking forward to see how you manage all your wiring and etc

Thank you. I was trying to keep it tidy because old setup was very messy.

No plan for the wiring yet but will be planning it out as I go I guess. Have some energy bar 8's to mount, vdm modules, led drivers, power heads, etc... will be probably using a lot of cable mounts/ties.

Originally Posted by belzebuth

Wow... Plumbing looks awesome.

[alcoolaid]

Originally Posted by Xadieu

How did you get the tank onto your truck and how did you unload it after you got to your house?? that thing is massive!

Did you watch the youtube video? Fork lift!

Funny thing is the fork lift operator asked me how I was going to get it off the truck. Just called 3 friends over to help break the crate apart on the bed so only the display was left, and then we just lifted it off!

Salty23 helped.

Originally Posted by Salty23

He called a few of his buddies and broke all their backs.

You didn't even lift man!

Originally Posted by rynoe

Did you get all the plumbing supplies locally?

A lot of people asked via PM's so I'll post this response...

I'm in Vancouver so I'm close to the USA border, hence I can easily order from Bulk Reef Supply, ship it to Point Roberts, WA and pick it up from there. I bought 75% of the plumbing parts during black friday when they had 15% off so they were pretty much the cheapest for cepex union ball valves, spears unions, fittings, pipe, etc.

They were sold out of some unions so the next cheapest place I found was http://www.completeplumbingsource.com/ The ones from BRS (spears brand) actually have a larger ID though... but still better than sch40.

Locally, I got some fittings from Andrew Sheret Ltd. http://www.sheret.com/

Another place is Corix Water Products but they were closed for the holidays so I didn't get anything from them. I did drive by and they have a large location in Richmond!

[H2o2]

Well done I am in

[asylumdown]

Are you going to skin the stand? With a plumbing job that nice I might want to show it off.

[alcoolaid]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

Are you going to skin the stand? With a plumbing job that nice I might want to show it off.

Yup I plan to. Will have to skin the canopy because the leds are so bright from the side.

Also the reeflo dart pump isn't that quiet... unless I have a dud. So I will skin the stand as well. Planning to use magnets.

[alcoolaid]

Here is a video of the canopy lift in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQRm3m2jEk8

[Madreefer]

Wicked! Your build is getting really cool. No cat?

[alcoolaid]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

No cat?

No, I have a dog

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by alcoolaid

Yup I plan to. Will have to skin the canopy because the leds are so bright from the side.

Also the reeflo dart pump isn't that quiet... unless I have a dud. So I will skin the stand as well. Planning to use magnets.

FWIW I was surprised at how loud my reeflo was as well. Different people have different impressions of what loud is, but even with the doors to my cabinet closed I can still hear it humming, and that was after replacing the bearing in it with a much, much more expensive version. I don't think I'll run an external return pump again because of it. You do get used to it after a while though, just sort of fades in to the background.

Piece of advice - order replacement seals now. Yours will eventually start to rust and it sucks knowing that the need replacing (evidenced by the rust and salt creep starting to appear outside of the pump - very disconcerting) while you wait for the new ones to show up in the mail.