New Tank Design
#21
Posted 10 February 2013 - 02:53 AM
#22
Posted 10 February 2013 - 06:53 AM
#23
Posted 10 February 2013 - 12:00 PM
#24
Posted 12 February 2013 - 06:26 PM
#25
Posted 12 February 2013 - 07:35 PM
K1 to flow from the bottom upwards to help keep it floating around but easy enough to change
#26
Posted 12 February 2013 - 08:08 PM
#27
Posted 12 February 2013 - 11:41 PM
Edited by Hypanheaven, 13 February 2013 - 06:11 AM.
#28
Posted 13 February 2013 - 06:12 AM
#29
Posted 15 February 2013 - 05:26 PM
This will be purely mechanical filtration and mean the bottom should be fairly spotless all the time
Edited by Hypanheaven, 15 February 2013 - 05:27 PM.
#30
Posted 16 February 2013 - 08:04 PM
If you want to pick up water from the lower area you can have an acrylic front around your existing wier with slots at the bottom and use returns or power heads to push water in that direction.
#31
Posted 16 February 2013 - 09:16 PM
i have a little trick up my sleeve involving Omron water leakage sensor and a solenoid shut off directly after the bulkhead, the bulkhead will be siliconed in as well as tightened.
the leakage seconsor is 2 wires close together in the drip tray of the pump and if water touches them, it creates a closed loop to the alarm, the Omron puts out a 24VAC signal which will will power a reticulation solenoid also 24vac
Edited by Hypanheaven, 17 February 2013 - 06:22 AM.
#32
Posted 17 February 2013 - 11:16 AM
#33
Posted 17 February 2013 - 12:31 PM
having a piece of acrylic infront of the wier would look fairly ugly from the front and cleaning inbetween the 2 pieces would be a PITA.
Definantly the best detritus sucker is direct from the bottom, but im open to ideas, i do realise that if it let go it would be all hell on divorse etc etc but i believe that if i can make it work and make it work safely and reliably it would be an excelent system, spoke to one guy on MFK and he has been running 7 years with a spa filter sucking from bottom without ever having to suck poo from the bottom manually
And i have an idea that will go with the water level sensor and shut off solenoid, the pump and filter will be sitting inside of a hydraponics tub and it will have a bulkhead in it that will be connected to the drain line which is already there. thats about as fail safe as you can get i believe, at the end of the day the pressure of the water above is only 20kpa (0.2bar) which is absolutely bugger all.
Another reason why im going with this is that i have heard of TB's scitzin and bumping into stand pipes and breaking bulkheads, if not worse the glass by the bending moment caused by the lever from the pipe/bulkhead. Ultimately i want to have absolutely nothing in the tank for anything to bump into or burn them selves. Just wide open swimming space
Edited by Hypanheaven, 18 February 2013 - 07:14 AM.
#34
Posted 18 February 2013 - 04:22 AM
#35
Posted 18 February 2013 - 05:50 AM
This is all brand new and not skimping, i already have 2 300w jagers. I have already sold my old tank (1 still forsake) and half the fish, after selling off all my old gear it will cost me around $950 out of my pocket
and Sketchup is the program
Edited by Hypanheaven, 18 February 2013 - 07:10 AM.
#36
Posted 18 February 2013 - 09:36 AM
#37
Posted 18 February 2013 - 10:06 AM
I am sucking from the bottom of the tank and then it goes through pressure pipe through pump then filter then returns to tank through the top I already have a wier and sump taking water from top of tank but im trying to achieve pure mechanical filtration from the botom of the tank
And i dont think a wier sucking from bottom will have enough force to suck the poos up to the top especially when they get large ie from a grown motoro or bass
II'm toying with a corner type wier that has an opening at the bottom then have stand pipes in the corner box so they can't be knocked I think this may be the best and the other I can place a small pump in there to push the detritus to the stand pipes what do you think of that
#38
Posted 18 February 2013 - 03:56 PM
i think this will look nice in the tank and have good functionality. its a mix of the best worlds believe.
it alleviates holes in the bottom, stand pipes, and sharp corners in tank if i just made it a box, water will suck from the bottom, i can put a small power head down there to help force detritus to the wier box.
I have also arranged my sump to accomodate more K1, now the sump goes, sponge/matrix, K1, sponge matrix then pump/heater, may even put heater into corner will see how it looks, back will be painted black so you wont be able to see much in the corner.
Edited by Hypanheaven, 18 February 2013 - 04:04 PM.
#39
Posted 18 February 2013 - 04:13 PM
Also what's the reason for using matrix
#40
Posted 18 February 2013 - 04:37 PM
the power head shouldnt blow it back out if i aim it upwards, but who knows, i have couple lying around so it will all be experimental. i have a sicce reef blower i will use up the other end to send flow along the bottom and the nozzles at the top will blow along the top
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