Haven't watched the video, but could coated magnets be of help in some way?
What strip lights did you get? I might want to do something similar (especially if Alexa enabled)We got the LED strip lights in yesterday and man does that make it nice under there for like $20. It’s controllable by Alexa and has a cool mode that flashes the lights in different colors according to music it must be able to pick up on a microphone! Crazy!
I’m struggling a bit to determine how to plumb and brace it. Bracing in a stand with minimal drillable areas is difficult. More on that after the plumbing plan. I think I’ll reduce from 1-1/4” off the COR20 union after a short vinyl hose connection. Some people say silicone but I worry that won’t have the longevity that vinyl will. Thoughts?
Then after the hose section I’ll reduce to 1” and stay 1” through the four port manifold I will make which will be 1” because I so happen to have four 1” Cepex ball valves and then I will reduce to 3/4” for the final run. The other return will just reduce to 3/4” its hose section.
What I’m actually struggling with is how to secure the manifold and overflow lines to anything. The deck is recessed above the steel tubing so I can’t flush mount the pipe into it with normal brackets. I’d have to drop them down with a cheater piece of 2x4 or something perhaps a bit ugly. The stand is painted steel and the manufacturer said he doesn’t suggest drilling it. Thoughts on that? Pics to show what I’m working with.
Green is the beananimal overflows and the purple is the two returns with one having a manifold.
the thin white is the deck that would be drillable on the back here as well as wood wrapping that center brace.
That’s a good idea possibly. In the video they use hanging split pipe clamps on threaded rod attached to brackets
i believe it’s these: https://www.feit.com/product/16-ft-smart-color-changing-led-strip-light/
Beautiful trio!!The last inhabitant has been added to QT for this cycle, a yellow tang from a tank shutdown. He’s finding his place in the hierarchy of the zebrasoma trio but not too much battle as I placed it in during the last minutes of twilight last night and dropped him straight into 2.5 ppm copper which I had just elevated to in the morning for the others. Ammonia is being a bit of a problem even with two cycled sponges in the system and Microbacter 7 but I’m keeping the badge no higher than mildly green thus far through water changes. I hit up Lowes last night as well and have begun to make a bracket system for bracing the pipes to the steel tubes
Slowly but surely things are happening again! Got a lot of the plumbing parts in white schedule 40 PVC as the BRS price on schedule 80 for my plan was $650!!!!! And I already had all but one Spears valve! The gate valve for the overflow alone will be >$100. Prices on petroleum based things are crazy right now. Going to use the white fittings and paint them blue with Krylon Fusion spray paint. I have blue pipes fell BRS but am planning with some old white pipe I had in the garage right now.
Test painted white fitting:
Bulkheads are all installed with cleaned gaskets and used some Rectorseal 5 soft set thread sealant on all the threads of the bulkheads right where the nuts will sit to help seal up against any leaks. I also filed the form lines on the bulkhead flanges where they’d push into the gasket to try and make a nearly perfectly flat flange.
Thanks!
I hadn’t even noticed the spider!
