Gimmito's 450 gal L-shaped tank

[JAR]

Leave it to the engineer to calculate the gallons in the pipes.

In that case, you get to use specific humidity of the fish room and add that water to your total system volume too

Gee it's fun to talk about water isn't it.
I kinda like to look at it though. :bigsmile:

 

[rygh]

I should have called it a 700+ gallon build so I would get more credit.

True, and would sound even more impressive.
Does that include the quarantine tanks as well?

Main Display

450 gal+95 gal sump+40 gal fuge=585 gal

Frag Tank

60 gal+43 gal sump=103 gal

Quarantine tank

20 gal+29 gal sump=49 gal

Total gal=717 gal

You forgot to add the pipes.
Even though a joke, mine are somewhere around 7 gallons. I bet yours are a more.

Leave it to the engineer to calculate the gallons in the pipes.

Yeah, that did come out a bit nerdy didn't it.
The real story: I was draining the lines into a normal 5 gallon bucket in order to fix something.
My estimate was about 1 gallon ended up on the floor before I grabbed another bucket,
and the rest was about 1 gallon. :O

 

[rygh]

Leave it to the engineer to calculate the gallons in the pipes.

In that case, you get to use specific humidity of the fish room and add that water to your total system volume too

Gee it's fun to talk about water isn't it.
I kinda like to look at it though. :bigsmile:

Nah - I prefer to look at the fish and coral in it.

 

[xcaret]

Who's up to make this thread hit the 1000 posts before the water is IN the main tank ?

 

[rygh]

Who's up to make this thread hit the 1000 posts before the water is IN the main tank ?

Nice idea.
Are scripts fair? I think I remember this site was Drupal based. Hmm.

 

[sfboarders]

Man, I say we boycott this thread and don't post anymore til we see water in the DT. :bigsmile:

 

[rygh]

Man, I say we boycott this thread and don't post anymore til we see water in the DT. :bigsmile:

Ok. Lets do that.
...
Oh crud - I just posted.
...
So much for that plan.

 

[anathema]

At least it will be easy to know when the tank gets filled, headlines the next day will read: South City Out Of Water! State of emergency declared!

 

[Mr. Ugly]

That will be when he builds his Klein bottle reef tank project

 

[gimmito]

I drilled out 816 holes for the frag plugs...boy am I tired. :tired:

 

[gimmito]

You never know.

 

[gimmito]

I should have called it a 700+ gallon build so I would get more credit.

True, and would sound even more impressive.
Does that include the quarantine tanks as well?

Main Display

450 gal+95 gal sump+40 gal fuge=585 gal

Frag Tank

60 gal+43 gal sump=103 gal

Quarantine tank

20 gal+29 gal sump=49 gal

Total gal=717 gal

You forgot to add the pipes.
Even though a joke, mine are somewhere around 7 gallons. I bet yours are a more.

Leave it to the engineer to calculate the gallons in the pipes.

Yeah, that did come out a bit nerdy didn't it.
The real story: I was draining the lines into a normal 5 gallon bucket in order to fix something.
My estimate was about 1 gallon ended up on the floor before I grabbed another bucket,
and the rest was about 1 gallon. :O

Calculating water in pipes nerdy ? Nah, now calculating the water in the air....that's nerdy. :glasses:

Only 193 posts until water in the main display guys.

 

[gimmito]

Update on the sump for the frag tank:

I added some chaeto & gracialla (Big thanks Christina), fuge light, & cleaned up the cords via corrugated tubing. After seeing Ed's ultra clean build...I'll have to zip tie, corrugate tube, & panduit all the cords !

 

[99sf]

Jim, it was great to see your remodeled house & reef systems in person. Very impressive and well-planned! Can't wait to see water in the big tank, and look forward to seeing the auto top-off system.

 

[sfboarders]

How come the drain for the skimmer is so high? :~

 

[JAR]

Jim, ... Can't wait to see water in the big tank...

+1

 

[iani]

Jim, ... Can't wait to see water in the big tank...

+1

+2

 

[gimmito]

How come the drain for the skimmer is so high? :~

I have to find a piece of pvc that will fit in there (since it's metric) and put an 45 elbow down into the water . It will quite it a bit also. Bad enough my QT has that gurguling sound every 30 seconds. :|

 

[sfsuphysics]

Hey, it's a start!! I'm guessing that's salt water, since there's Chaeto and all.

We need to calculate the volume of the sump for the frag tank vs the whole system and have someone make a graph or chart showing how close to full water we are

John: Riser tube design on a skimmer, the bubble height in the skimmer depends how high the water is, different pumps will push different amounts of water/foam, but overall it looks about spot on, right around where the neck is of the skimmer, not to mention that skimmer barely looks like it's in the water, so that pump is working a bit extra to get water to that height

 

[gimmito]

Jar and Ian.,

You will be happy to know I finished plumbing the drains and just have to connect the manifold and fuge. I'm not posting any pic's unless it has water in it.