Parzifal

Good morning!

would love to borrow the wand par meter.  anything I need to do other than this post?

thanks,

Aaron

Safeway’s and Albertsons can order them for you.  Some carry them all the time. 

Bowie and Matilda    Matilda is the dumb looking one 😉,  I’ll let you all decide which one that is. 

Both frenchies, B is 4 and Matilda is now 2.

Thanks Mesa, but no.  Need 12”, 6” and 8” specifically.  

oooh. If Fowler has large diameter in stock.  That’s awesome!

Awesome!  Thanks,  I hear sewer piping may have antimicrobials that can leach into the water.  

Anyone have solid evidence for that or that one way or another?

thanks,

aaron

Lol. YEah... I noticed as you go up in diameter the prices increase exponentially.   

Looking at at the prices it looks like I’ll be able to build this 12” diameter by 5’ tall slimmer for a little under $1000 including the pump.  

But if there’s any chance for less expensively I’m always down for that!

mesamech what do you do for a living?

thanks all for helping with this!

Thanks!  What’s a PW though?

Hi all!

im looking for a couple pieces of large diameter pipe, anyone have any of these left they would like to let with:

-12” diameter sched 40 pvc 60” length

-6” diameter sched 40 pvc 1 foot length

-6” diameter clear pvc 1’ length

-4” diameter clear pvc 1’ length

-12” to 6” coupler

-6” union 

im thinking of building a serious protein skimmer.

Hi all.   Looking for some led lights, specifically ones that would be good for a wide shallow sps tank.   

Anyone have any orphek bars they they would like to sell, or something similar?

Both acrylic 

Hello all!

I got bigger tanks!   Now I don’t need these,  have a sump and a frag tank for sale. They were working wonderfully as of this afternoon, dimensions and prices below:

sump: 48” L x 18”W x 16” H...$50

frag tank: 66”L x 27” W x 12” H...$50 

I’m in SE Portland and looking forward to getting these out of my garage ASAP.

thanks,

Aaron

Well,

its been months. The tanks are up and running, at least the temporary ones.   I’m looking into getting either some acrylic tanks made or HDPE 

got some fish, got some rock, and building the cabinet that will hold the apex system.

More to come in the next few weeks. 

Cuttlefish had several great looking ones over the weekend. 

Omg.  Great looking dog,  but the cat in the last photo is awesome!

Pm sent 

Do these come with a hanging kit? What year are they?  Do you have pictures of them on and working?

I’ll have one that is 3/4” thick acrylic.  60x24x 10 in a couple weeks.  

It it has a single center cross brace and an overflow.   It is drilled.

shoot me a pm if interested

Good morning!

i’m debating between two sump designs and would greatly appreciate the forum’s opinions and experience.

a few notes about the system:

-150 gal display upstairs plumbed to basement fish room frag tank

-130 gallon frag tank plumbed to refugium

-185 gallon refugium plumbed to mechanical filtration sump.

-110 gallon mechanical sump.

The debate is over which of these two designs will work best (fewest bubbles)

1) baffles at the very end of the sump.  This  may limit the size protein skimmer I can build, but allows for slower flow into the return.

2) baffles at the beginning of the sump.  This opens up for the size protein skimmer I really want to build and creates a 50 gallon “return” chamber.  

Have any of you seen issues with putting the baffles this far away from the return?

what would your concerns be with the second layout?

More power!

What the heck is that thing?   Need a big Alita air pump for that!

thanks!

Hello All!

I want to build my own protein skimmer (60" tall x 12" body) and am looking for recommended books/websites to reference i order to figure out CFM air draw on venturi valves depending on pipe diameter and GPH water flow.  I would appreciate any direction, most of what I have found so far is high level calculus and really only need something a little more simple than this:

And on this note, anyone have any 12" diameter PVC they want to sell?

Sounds like an intermittent siphon is being created causing the tank to “flush” and then refill. 

To to make it silent and not flush would  mean creating a stable siphon by limiting the flow through the return using a valve (preferable gate valve). 

With only a single overflow; restricting the flow so the overflow is silent can be very risky.  If a snail or a piece of nori covers the opening you will flood the room!

If the only option is a single return pipe then my recommendation would be add a gate valve between the return pump and the main display and “dial” it down until you reach that sweet spot where the siphon isn’t created.

do you have any pictures to help us diagnose the issue and offer solutions?

Call him lasagne