My 400g build from the groud up. HAVE I LOST MY MIND?!?!

[Squirtle919]

Nice work man. that stand looks solid!

 

[PDRed302]

Looking great!

 

[mike_sema]

Wow,,, very nice sub

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[TheBigB]

Nice work man. that stand looks solid!

Looking great!

Wow,,, very nice sub

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Thanks guys!

 

[TheBigB]

Heres a quick update -

I bought some 24" x 24" 3/16" acrylic to build my overflows and bent them to shape. I still need to make slots for the water flow but thought you may enjoy checking out how I did it. Dont make fun my ghetto template until you see the results...haha

I cut some wood blocks to give the angles I wanted and taped some card board to the top to help hold the shape.







If everything goes as planned, I will be water testing this weekend

 

[TheBigB]

Heres a video of me bending the acrylic. Its kind of long. The actual bending starts about 2:20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7t77kJ-lc

 

[Egon]

Another slow weekend so not too much done. The extra Pond Shield I ordered was backordered and won’t be here until the end of this week so I have been kind of stalled out until that arrives. There are things to be done in the meantime but I have just been tinkering. Here’s the current progress

I started setting up the 55 gallon that will have the mechanical filtration and refugium.

Drilled the hole for the 2" bulk head to connect to the 90 gallon bio sump.
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Joining this late. I think you may need to revisit the 2" hole between your two sumps. I think you may need one or most likely two more 2" holes to maintain the flow between the sumps. Your set up right now to overflow the first sump and fill that stand and ultimately fill your living room with water.

If it’s not too late you should abandon the two sump system and just install one large sump.

Edit: Another thing you can do to reduce the amount of holes between the two sumps is raise the 55 gallon sump as high as possible. It will make it more difficult to change out your filter socks but at least it will work.
One large sump is my #1 recommendation.

 

[TheBigB]

Joining this late. I think you may need to revisit the 2" hole between your two sumps. I think you may need one or most likely two more 2" holes to maintain the flow between the sumps. Your set up right now to overflow the first sump and fill that stand and ultimately fill your living room with water.

If it’s not too late you should abandon the two sump system and just install one large sump.

Edit: Another thing you can do to reduce the amount of holes between the two sumps is raise the 55 gallon sump as high as possible. It will make it more difficult to change out your filter socks but at least it will work.
One large sump is my #1 recommendation.

Thanks for the tip, however I've done some small scale testing of this and it seemed to work just fine. Plus I already have the sumps set up ready to go. If it starts to be a problem I can easily add another 2" pipe.

 

[Egon]

Thanks for the tip, however I've done some small scale testing of this and it seemed to work just fine. Plus I already have the sumps set up ready to go. If it starts to be a problem I can easily add another 2" pipe.

Please share your results. I think your going to know within 5 minutes of starting the pump if it's going to work or not. I have two sumps on my 450 so I know exactly what your about to go through.

 

[bmxer4ever]

This looks great. Hope it all goes well for you - looking forward to the next progress report!