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Ha yeah ... I'll be learning as I go. Plumbing parts are coming and I should have them on Friday. My weekend is plannned now. I'll focus on the plumbing first. Then I'll stress the wire management.
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Ha yeah ... I'll be learning as I go. Plumbing parts are coming and I should have them on Friday. My weekend is plannned now. I'll focus on the plumbing first. Then I'll stress the wire management.
We rate it at 1500 gph, but we are soon going to show that it can actually handle more
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Haha tempting.
How much is airfare to Indy or Dayton? lol
I think I'll give it a shot. I'm eager.
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So I'm still working on the plumbing. But I thought I'd give an update. The tank was delivered. God was it heavy. I'm glad I asked some friends to come help. It required all six of us and fitting it through the last doorway was a Herculean challenge.
As you could tell from prior pics, it was packed pretty well. It arrived in great shape.
After we got it in, I spent the next couple days working on the Shadow Overflow install by Synergy Reef. It was good, particularly after they posted their new install video.
I plumbed above the stand. Then I realized I didn't have all the parts I needed. That's my typical plumbing style actually. Ten trips to the hardware store and lots of cursing. But honestly, it's not been too bad.
Here are a couple shots of the stand with tank on and light hung. The light is a 48"
ATI PowerModule. It still needs the canopy facing to cover the metal hangers. And the edge trim around the tank.
I'll post more soon.
As you could tell from prior pics, it was packed pretty well. It arrived in great shape.
After we got it in, I spent the next couple days working on the Shadow Overflow install by Synergy Reef. It was good, particularly after they posted their new install video.
I plumbed above the stand. Then I realized I didn't have all the parts I needed. That's my typical plumbing style actually. Ten trips to the hardware store and lots of cursing. But honestly, it's not been too bad.
Here are a couple shots of the stand with tank on and light hung. The light is a 48"
ATI PowerModule. It still needs the canopy facing to cover the metal hangers. And the edge trim around the tank.
I'll post more soon.
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Very nice!
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Thank you Rev. It's your meticulousness, and many others, I've seen on here over the years that's been inspiring. I'm just trying to do it 'right.' And slow seems to be the best way. Although in my case, it being in my office has been kind of a damper. I'm ready to get back to business as usual.
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Plumbing is done. Like I said, I know why people have fish rooms. So they have space to work and install things. Truly.
Today I am going to start the water test. I'll call it a water test but in reality it's really my plumbing skills test ...
Synergy Reef CL-44 sump, Rollermat, EcoTech Vectra L1 return pump, overhead LED strip installed.
I tiled the bottom of the stand so with the grout joints, I felt it best to put a pad under the sump. So I used some of the carpet squares from the office flooring to give it a nice even base.
Next up: water!! Wish me luck
Thanks to @soffutt for stopping by last night for the encouragement.
Today I am going to start the water test. I'll call it a water test but in reality it's really my plumbing skills test ...
Synergy Reef CL-44 sump, Rollermat, EcoTech Vectra L1 return pump, overhead LED strip installed.
I tiled the bottom of the stand so with the grout joints, I felt it best to put a pad under the sump. So I used some of the carpet squares from the office flooring to give it a nice even base.
Next up: water!! Wish me luck
Thanks to @soffutt for stopping by last night for the encouragement.
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Plumbing is done. Like I said, I know why people have fish rooms. So they have space to work and install things. Truly.
Today I am going to start the water test. I'll call it a water test but in reality it's really my plumbing skills test ...
Synergy Reef CL-44 sump, Rollermat, EcoTech Vectra L1 return pump, overhead LED strip installed.
I tiled the bottom of the stand so with the grout joints, I felt it best to put a pad under the sump. So I used some of the carpet squares from the office flooring to give it a nice even base.
Next up: water!! Wish me luck
Thanks to @soffutt for stopping by last night for the encouragement.
I am getting ready to start a 265g set up and this is the exact color scheme I'm going with too. Very awesome set up. I'll be using this for inspiration.
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Thanks . I appreciate it.
Thanks. It's been a challenge and I'd love to see your set up when you get it going be sure to start a thread.
The colors look nice. When I hit the red button on the LED remote, it looks pretty cool too. I'll post a pic of that sometime.
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I run Philips Hue in my home so I ordered the Philips Hue strip Light and a Philips Hue motion sensor so that when I open the doors to the sump it will automatically come on. Plus I'll be able to set it to Red which I think will look awesome.
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I run Philips Hue in my home so I ordered the Philips Hue strip Light and a Philips Hue motion sensor so that when I open the doors to the sump it will automatically come on. Plus I'll be able to set it to Red which I think will look awesome.
Yeah that's fantastic. I'm just gonna hook my strip to the APEX when I get it set up. It should turn on when I open the stand. I will look into the motion sensor (so long as nothing inside the stand can set it off) as that's a great idea too - seems simpler.
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Thanks @mixer911. I want to give my two cents on the Rollermat hookup to the Synergy Reef Shadow and sump. I think it went very well. It definitely needs to hook into the primary to be able to adjust flow.
I realized that I was going to have to modify the box a bit. The intake and the return are 40mm metric fittings. Fortunately, BRS sells the connection kit. So, I bought the BRS connector from the 40mm to 1 1/4" for the return. The BRS kit comes with a replacement 1" bulkhead for the intake and a 3/4" bulkhead for the emergency overflow. But, I didn't really want to buy 3/4" pipe to connect into my emergency overflow. So I used my Dremel and without changing the lowest or left edge of the existing hole, I cleared out a bigger space for a 1" bulkhead. I had the Dremel set on mid speed. At high speeds, the plastic started to melt instead of sand off. The new bulkhead needed to clear the filled up roller to the right and stay below it. This was no problem with the schedule 40 bulkhead so long as you kept the existing left and lower edge of the stock emergency hole. To be honest, I didn't "NEED" to do this but I didn't have any red 3/4" pipe. Anyway, I then ran the new 1" emergency overflow for the Rollermat into the 1 1/2" emergency overflow line from the Shadow with a 1.5" x 1.5" x 1" T.
Here are some pics.
So, long story short: I think it went in pretty cleanly. The primary line with the gate valve feeds the Rollermat and then it goes back into the CL44 sump from the 40mm adapter to the 1.5" bulkhead. The secondary goes directly into the sump. The emergency goes directly into the sump as well but gets a link from the emergency on the Rollermat. My next step is to determine precisely how much flow I'm getting into the mat (or close) and dial it in a bit.
As you can see, I'm still using the filter socks to help polish water from the secondary that isn't going through the Mat.
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Thanks. I hope to keep it going so neat. I'm afraid the wire management is going to be more challenging yet.
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Beautiful... Thanks for the inspiration..... Can't wait to set up mine...
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Anytime. I found inspiration from so many here. I hope you start a thread of your own when you get it rolling.
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