Juan's 300+ Gallon Apartment Tank

JPSika08 · Mar 29, 2016

Tigerworks said:
Oh my! It was only recently that I've been bitten by the reef tank bug. I've been doing a lot of reading and watching YouTube videos for the past few months and only now started writing down my plan. I really don't know a LPS from a GPS yet but your tank build has certainly given me great inspiration. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see what's next.

Thank you very much and hope you can start your system soon.

I really don't know a LPS from a GPS

LOL

Saltwaterwill said:
O my goodness very inspirational, following along.

Thank you very much and nice to have you along.

WilRams · Mar 29, 2016

Great job Juan!

JPSika08 · Mar 29, 2016

WilRams said:
Great job Juan!

Thank you very much

57buick · Mar 29, 2016

my steel stand I just used a forester bit to make a perfect size hole and epoxyed a rare earth magnet flush into the wood panel, no screws and it sits flush

57buick · Mar 29, 2016

here's a pic with the panels on

JPSika08 · Mar 29, 2016

57buick said:
my steel stand I just used a forester bit to make a perfect size hole and epoxyed a rare earth magnet flush into the wood panel, no screws and it sits flush

Thanks for sharing, I like your idea better, problem with mine is that the head of the screw doesn't allow the door to sit completely over the metal stand.

JPSika08 · Mar 29, 2016

57buick said:
here's a pic with the panels on

Nice! Indeed they sit perfectly.

LiquidLenny · Mar 30, 2016

Very nice indeed. I really like your apartment's interior design and style. Nice views from the aqua scape to the city scape beyond.

larangcon · Mar 30, 2016

Very nice tank also gave me ideas how I'm going to do my build. Thanks for sharing.

Kaskade · Mar 30, 2016

Clean build love the woodwork

enzo · Mar 30, 2016

Lol when I saw the kids on the stand it reminded me of my boys when they were that little man time flies. How did the glass Crack did you over tighten the bulk head fittings, anyways impressive setup great job.

enzo · Mar 30, 2016

Ohh and welcome to the club

smckeown1 · Mar 30, 2016

Beautiful tank and build so far! Definitely following along!!

jcdeng · Mar 30, 2016

Tell me you did not just brought glass panels and build the tank and everything else yourself from scratch!

And if you did. Sifu, please accept my most sincere bow of respect.

Master reefer level achieved!

aviationreef · Mar 30, 2016

following along for updates.

JPSika08 · Mar 30, 2016

LiquidLenny said:
Very nice indeed. I really like your apartment's interior design and style. Nice views from the aqua scape to the city scape beyond.

Thank you, when decorating the apartment I went somehow to a retro look using lots of fabrics, wood and aluminum, no leather around the apartment.

Here is a quick view from the balcony:

larangcon said:
Very nice tank also gave me ideas how I'm going to do my build. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you and it's great to learn that my thread will help you come up with ideas, this is my main objective when sharing many pictures of the system.

Kaskade said:
Clean build love the woodwork

Thank you

enzo said:
Lol when I saw the kids on the stand it reminded me of my boys when they were that little man time flies. How did the glass Crack did you over tighten the bulk head fittings, anyways impressive setup great job.

enzo said:
Ohh and welcome to the club

Thank you, I really feel very welcome here, R2R Rules!

Time does fly quickly, the little ones are a full reflection of that.

With the glass, I was removing a pipe attached to the bulkhead and somehow pulled it too strong and the bulkhead broke the glass on the process, at that moment I just sat on a chair to admire my stupidity,

, LOL.

smckeown1 said:
Beautiful tank and build so far! Definitely following along!!

Thank you very much, nice to have you along.

jcdeng said:
Tell me you did not just brought glass panels and build the tank and everything else yourself from scratch!

And if you did. Sifu, please accept my most sincere bow of respect.

Master reefer level achieved!

Thank you for the kind words, the glass was built by a guy with over 15 years of experience building these, I'm brave but not that brave, lol.

aviationreef said:
following along for updates.

Thank you, and nice to have you along.

masterkaw · Mar 30, 2016

Great job. Looking forward seeing the progress.

How many floors on the building?
Are earthquakes ever a concern?

enzo · Mar 30, 2016

I just sat on my chest with my in my stupidity eek LOL

Yes you're right that is LOL because I've been there and done that.

fragit · Mar 30, 2016

Great looking set up, I will be following as I'm planning a smaller but similar set up!

JPSika08 · Mar 30, 2016

masterkaw said:
Great job. Looking forward seeing the progress.

How many floors on the building?
Are earthquakes ever a concern?

The building has 19 floors total, I'm on the 15th.
Guatemala has indeed earthquakes, as of the moment small ones (Between 2 - 4.5 magnitude). It is my main concern what would happen with a big earthquake, though, on my floor the movement is not so hard, on the contrary it's a very soft side to side movement.

The other day a 4.5 magnitude earthquake started, I was studying the tank's movement, at the end, water moved as a if powerheads were producing waves.

This is another reason why I will be able to control the Profilux with my phone, in case of a quake, I can turn off the return pump to lower the DT's water level and lower the possibility of a big spill.