Lasers 1000+ Inwall Starfire

beachsidereefer · Feb 26, 2015

thank you for keeping us up to date on all the latest stuff you're doing. it serves as inspiration for me to continue to tweak and improve my setup!

ccscorpion200 · Feb 27, 2015

Wow!!! That is an AWESOME build. And still adding on! I spent half the night reading your build. I love to see it in person one day when I go to Dallas. Keep the update coming, you are doing a fine job.

Laser · Feb 27, 2015

Thanks to all that are following and enjoying the progress!

Yesterday was a long day reworking the plumbing to incorporate the frag tank. Here are a few shots with most of the plumbing now gone and the sump empty and dismantled. Kind of a helpless feeling of we started this and have to finish...So about 125 gallons was pumped for the display into the frag tank. All the frags and colonies were then moved from the sump over to the frag tank and the sump emptied and plumbing cut..

Laser · Feb 27, 2015

couple shots of the frag tank with frags transfered over and crammed in:xd:

Laser · Feb 27, 2015

few shots of the plumbing almost complete. We still need to hook up the drain for water changes but ran out of gas at midnight last night. We started the project at 10am so decided I could wait a couple days for a water change.:xd:

Laser · Feb 27, 2015

couple more of the main entry and exit points

Laser · Feb 27, 2015

couple shots of plumbing under frag tank --clean look!

Laser · Feb 28, 2015

able to install the new larger 400mm cup the skimmer should have come with to start with and then install the neck cleaner. I must say it blows away the old avast neck cleaner I used and it worked great..

MrDJeep123 · Feb 28, 2015

Great idea on the whiteboard! I suppose with a tank that big, you have to keep on top of things.

ccscorpion200 · Feb 28, 2015

Looks like you gonna need a bigger frag tank. Lol.

Laser · Feb 28, 2015

ccscorpion200 said:
Looks like you gonna need a bigger frag tank. Lol.

All the acro colonies will be going into the main display once I can get a mini colony cut to grow out in the frag tank so we will have more space soon.

Laser · Feb 28, 2015

MrDJeep123 said:
Great idea on the whiteboard! I suppose with a tank that big, you have to keep on top of things.

And then a week after I put it up Apex comes out with a new software version that keeps up with all the stuff I was trying to track! Now the kids just draw pictures..

Laser · Mar 3, 2015

frag tank running nicely. will get the new mpw60 for the tank flow today.
Plumbing will be finished tonight hopefully

Laser · Mar 4, 2015

we were able to complete phase 2 of the plumbing. We can now perform water changes with return pump from both the display sump as well as the soon to be QT/Frag sump. Pics show each return pump and the valves to go to the drain.
1st pic is dart return for the qt/frag tank
2nd pic is where both lines go to the drain that leaves the house
3rd pic shows gold hammerhead return valve for water changes on main system

Laser · Mar 4, 2015

http://attabox.com/18x16x10-nema-clear-enclosure/

I just ordered 2 of these attabox enclosures to place all the apex equipment on 2 of the control walls. We will install all the equipment and place led lights in the enclosure to give it a nice custom look like I did 25 years ago when I was tricking out my speaker box enclosure in a 1982 Corvette. :drum:

This will allow me to clean up the mess of wires you can see in the above pics.

ccscorpion200 · Mar 4, 2015

Looking good. It's gonna be cool looking when you get all those apex in the box with led's. I remember those good old days with light on the speakers. I had blue neon under my car for that glowing affect. Now I got Blue LED's on top of my tank. :bigsmile: LOL

Laser · Mar 5, 2015

here is rough drawing of how the setup will work with the frag tank. The qt stand will be same height and qt will also be 16" so same as frag tank going all the way across the wall. The refugium will sit below the qt. Return pump will pump back to qt, refugium, and the frag tank all with valves and all able to be isolated. Tried google sketch for first time and made this in about 20 minutes so pretty cool software.

Laser · Mar 25, 2015

Few more goodies showed up today. The attabox's will house all the apex equipment on the various walls. I will need one more box but wanted to start with these to get a better idea of size and how much I can get into each box. They are way bigger than I thought so will not need the largest one. I will be making a black acrylic square to mount all the units on and then drill holes below each unit to run the wires. The entire fabricated board then will be attached to the attabox and mounted. I will add a led light inside to be able to see at any time.