1,000 GALLON MULTI TANK SUMP SYSTEM.
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Its an industrial chem-tainer. Bowtie knows more about it.
Yep, Kamikazi said it right they are Chem-tainers I know a worker there that was able to get me a killer deal on the tub. then we were able to do the work to them tub after the fact to make it the way you see it.
If you lived closer I would say I could help you out if you wanted one but CA is not exactly close..
Do you know any of these people personally? If so would it be possible to get them to check the "actual" wattage of the pump? it seems according to the reviews online these pumps could potentially pull up to 40% more power than advertised.
you are correct in that we could increase the capacity of the stands by doing as you described.
But the way we used the wood screws, they are more than adequate to the load, I'm an engineer(not certified as a structural engineer but I'm moderately competent at this stuff). I did get lazy, I mean the original demo construction was with lag bolts and the stand could support over 10,000 lbs by my calculations(per rack!). Likely the wood would give out before the lag bolts would give out. But that was about 100 dollars in hardware. The srews were fast and dirty, but the way the joints are layered and reinforced puts the loads at around 5,000 lbs per level. More than enough for a 125 gallon tank with decor and water.
Honestly the style construction you are talking about is not as strong as the lag bolts w/o adding dramatically more wood the construction. Else it depletes the integrity of the wood grain, those notches destroy compression strength of the stand laterally witch is a very important thing when I'm climbing to get into the top tank.
Ultimately doing stuff like this in wood is silly as steel is what you want. The wood warps so much, If I could do this all over again I'd splurge for steel racks.
But the way we used the wood screws, they are more than adequate to the load, I'm an engineer(not certified as a structural engineer but I'm moderately competent at this stuff). I did get lazy, I mean the original demo construction was with lag bolts and the stand could support over 10,000 lbs by my calculations(per rack!). Likely the wood would give out before the lag bolts would give out. But that was about 100 dollars in hardware. The srews were fast and dirty, but the way the joints are layered and reinforced puts the loads at around 5,000 lbs per level. More than enough for a 125 gallon tank with decor and water.
Honestly the style construction you are talking about is not as strong as the lag bolts w/o adding dramatically more wood the construction. Else it depletes the integrity of the wood grain, those notches destroy compression strength of the stand laterally witch is a very important thing when I'm climbing to get into the top tank.
Ultimately doing stuff like this in wood is silly as steel is what you want. The wood warps so much, If I could do this all over again I'd splurge for steel racks.
This is depleting the value as nearly every review says they list a power draw the pump never comes close to. They aren't bad but they are misleading in that they are off by a minimum of 10 percent even in best case scenarios.
Considering the size of your system I understand why an external pump makes a lot of sense. How big of a pump are you going to upgrade to?
Have you had any issues balancing the flow to your lower tanks vs the flow to your upper tanks?
I am looking forwards to seeing your DE implementation! I think you will really appreciate the DE... but it is easy to get spoiled quickly and forget what cloudy water looks like.I still haven't changed the original DE powder on mine and it is still going strong!
Hey Buddy,
So after about half a year of using a DE filter as a parallel loop on our system I have to say I don't think it will work for a multi tank sump. I can deffinately see how it would be AMAZING for a simpler closed loop but with this volume of water "charging" it makes a real mess that essentially dirties all the tanks and the entire system. I will likely plumb this out of my current filter setup in the near future. That being said it might work its way into a closed loop setup in the future but I don't know when that will happen.
Cool tech for sure just a little difficult to use especially if you have substrate in a tank.