My new 200g tank

[yellowfiji]

Nice furniture. Where did you get them from?

 

[Hyolee]

Tank unpacked in garage

 

[Hyolee]

Getting this sucker on the stand was hard work.

Bought a dolly and 4 glass suction cups at Harbor Freight. Great prices btw..

To Do:
Reinforce floor
Plumb tank
Install Lumenarcs
Waterproof stand canopy
Install RODI system

As you can see, I won't be adding water next week. January was really busy for me, but I should be able to get cranking this month.

 

[bleedingthought]

Beautiful! 8)

 

[Hyolee]

lazy as usual... but I have a lot of the planning done. Now it's just implementation.

Here are a few pics of my skimmer, sump, and RO reservoir:

 

[bleedingthought]

8)

 

[MartinE]

shaweeet tank and canopy

 

[Anonymous]

Yea, I dig the furniture too. Looking very nice 8)

 

[Nemo2007]

Wow!

 

[dadstank]

i love the color...
maybe i missed it, but where did the stand and canopy come from?

they really are lovely. and they will match my table......

 

[Hyolee]

I bought the stand and canopy from a local place in san jose, ca that does custom tanks. I doubt he would take non-local orders.

Update after long break:

Tank moved to different area (same room)
Dedicated circuit with GFCI
Plumbing done
All equipment purchased (except RODI)
Rock and Mystery wrasse purchased (in separate quarantine)

Pics to follow.

 

[Hyolee]

Here I have 2 1" drains with a 6" strainer and a 9" emergency drain.

 

[Hyolee]

Here is my overflow plumbing. On the left is an emergency drain that empties a few inches above the water line. The splashing sound will alert me that something in the main line may be clogged. I have a T coming down, the horizontal line feeding the skimmer, with a ball valve to control the flow through the skimmer. The vertical line of the T has a ball valve and then goes straight down a couple inches below the water line. After doing some research, I think this is the best way to directly feed your skimmer from the overflow and use Herbie's method.

 

[Hyolee]

Here is the return plumbing. No check valve, no union, no ball valve. I figure my return pump is on the undersized side, so I want as little pipe friction as possible. Also, if you notice on the left hand side, I have 2 TLF phosban reactors. I plan on running carbon and phosban in series, powered by a little Minijet 404.

 

[Hyolee]

Here's the return. I purchased a grossly overpriced (sorry oceansmotions) oceansmotions omni flex nozzle. It's basically a 1" 3 section locline-style nozzle that looks nicer. 26 clams shipped. I might try a Pacific Coast flow accelerator (penductor), but I heard they don't work well without a high pressure pump.

 

[Ben1]

Looks very nice! What kind of skimmer is that a deltec?

Good luck!!

 

[Hyolee]

It's a DAS EX-3. Same body as the Deltec AP851, but with 3 Aquabee 2001's. Less reliable than the Eheim pump on the Deltec, but puts out about 130% more air. (650 l/h eheim vs. 1500 l/h 3x aquabee)

 

[Len]

Looking good. I see a nice big reservoir for top off

I assume you used clear PVC glue. I see absolutely no excess glue, so hopefully you made good seals (fully covered in glue, inserted and then twisted).

My only criticism: it's kinda weird that you went with hard plumbing on the return when you could've just gone black vinyl to the top (would look just as clean).

 

[Len]

BTW, can you remove the skimmer cup without hitting the PVC above it?

 

[Hyolee]

I used purple primer and clear PVC glue, wiping off excess glue after insertion. I tried to be neat. And yup, I did do that quarter twist afterwards.

I used hard PVC on the return because I think glued PVC connections will be more leak proof and fail safe than hose barb connections. I'm sure hose barb connections are safe, but I prefer using only glued PVC connections for areas outside the sump.

Oh yeah, the skimmer cup can be removed. I thought of that beforehand.