Recent content by ReefRescue

Thanks edd I am not a big fan of loose wires and pipes all over the place. I find that the time spent to design and organize at the beginning pays for itself tenfold in the long run of having to go around things and having to deal with accidents and disasters. I try to make my system as clean...

A little taste of what's to come. The preparation for the sensors in the sump.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KjVHJDIY9w8

I can?t find a picture of the way the sump was originally set up, but in the video bellow you should be able to get an idea of how it was, the sump was on the right hand side under the tank. The tank was custom ordered, with all the holes coming through the overflow, two 1.5? drains, and five 1...

Have a look at the fastener in this picture below.I was able to move it with my hand after examining the source of the leaks, and I realized they were all loose. I could not believe my eyes. This was done by a company in the valley, they were also servicing his previous 150gal tank doing two...

I will track pictures of the actual tank and post them later. The scariest part was, that two of the returns from the oceans motions, in the middle of the tank were coming through the soft pipes underneath, getting connected to the oceans motions outside 10' away. So the connections were...

All the pipes were fastened by metal fasteners, already rusted and full of corrosion after a month.

The pumps were in use for less then a month. Have a look at the salt creep from the leaks.

The smaller pipe underneath the orange bucket was the intake of the High pressure return that went through the chiller and then blasted in the middle of the tank.

Here are a few shots of the pipes going outside underneath a built in cabinet through the upstairs bedroom wall to the patio. The return from the sump through the cabinets to the reeflo that was connected to the oceans motions

Here is shot underneath the tank from last Feb

Last February I drove up to Northridge in CA, USA after responding to a craigslist add to buy a tank. After a couple of interesting exchanges my girlfriend and I decided to make the drive. Once we got there and I purchased the tank the owner asked me a couple of questions about his newly built...