A Newbies attempt at a 48gal Corner tank

Welcome to R2R! Your build looks great! I have this same tank (or my daughter does but it's in my house and is becoming my build lol) . She has a HOB filter and I am going to sneak a sump setup in also. (sssshhhhh :tongue: ) Looks like you have it all in good order. Can't wait to see it wet :)
 
Welcome to R2R! Your build looks great! I have this same tank (or my daughter does but it's in my house and is becoming my build lol) . She has a HOB filter and I am going to sneak a sump setup in also. (sssshhhhh :tongue: ) Looks like you have it all in good order. Can't wait to see it wet :)
Got any pictures? Looking for some ideas for my aquascaping. Haven't seen many corner tanks and my rock is on the way!
 
It has a cyano algae issue ATM but am working on it...

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Looking good!! How hard is to achieve good flow patterns in your tank? The corner tanks can be tricky in achieving good flow.
 
Looking good!! How hard is to achieve good flow patterns in your tank? The corner tanks can be tricky in achieving good flow.

That's very true! Well mine has the big marineland biowheel filter on it that can really move some water. I have a mj600 behind the rock and am going to put a jebao wp25 to push water from the opposite wall of the filter. If the wp25 is used in pulse or else mode it should be perfect. These wavepumps have really good undertow as well.
 
That's very true! Well mine has the big marineland biowheel filter on it that can really move some water. I have a mj600 behind the rock and am going to put a jebao wp25 to push water from the opposite wall of the filter. If the wp25 is used in pulse or else mode it should be perfect. These wavepumps have really good undertow as well.
Yeah that's my next step, I have 2 hydor 725s that I have to find a good position for. Haven't researched flow too much yet.
 
The tank is officially up and running! It took a day, but the water cleared up enough for pictures! I spent half a day aquascaping and puttying to get it right. I was happy with the results. You can't really see it, but there's a small second cave to the right.

I did have some problems with a noisy overflow, which I ended up removing the check valve and doing some tweaking with ball valves on my return and drain. I was cautioned against restricting overflow movement by some kind folks on this forum, so I will have to play with it a bit more tonight to get it right.

Another problem I'm having is water movement in my fuge. In the last pic I uploaded, you can see it is moving the sand, which I need more of, that's just what I had left. If I open my drain all the way, I only see this getting worse, can I slow it down with some sort of sponge filter between baffles?

I think my two problems stem from having a 10 ft drop to the basement. The water comes in hard and fast. Any ideas?
 

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First tests look good. 8.2ish pH, 0 on no2, no3, ammonia.
 

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Had the same issue with the sand in the sump and this is how i stopped it.
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Just put a pile of rubble rock on the side the water flows over.

Looks great so far though.... since tests come up good you can add 1 or 2 small fish and a small clean up crew. You don't want to do too much at once.

Overflow noise can be helped by adding a lid to the top of the overflow box and drilling a hole in the top of the elbow. Then silicone a piece of 1/4" airline tubing in it. Snip pieces off a little at a time then stop just as you can hear it getting louder. There's videos on YouTube on how to quiet overflows for this.
 
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Better pic of the right side cave. Next I need to build something to hold my LED so my pics don't look so crappy.
 

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Had the same issue with the sand in the sump and this is how i stopped it.
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Just put a pile of rubble rock on the side the water flows over.

Looks great so far though.... since tests come up good you can add 1 or 2 small fish and a small clean up crew. You don't want to do too much at once.

Overflow noise can be helped by adding a lid to the top of the overflow box and drilling a hole in the top of the elbow. Then silicone a piece of 1/4" airline tubing in it. Snip pieces off a little at a time then stop just as you can hear it getting louder. There's videos on YouTube on how to quiet overflows for this.
I actually have a 1/4 tubing coming out of the elbow already. Came with the glass holes kit. I fixed the noise issue by reducing the overflow with a ball valve in the basement. I was told this is not good though.
 
Had the same issue with the sand in the sump and this is how i stopped it.
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Just put a pile of rubble rock on the side the water flows over.

Looks great so far though.... since tests come up good you can add 1 or 2 small fish and a small clean up crew. You don't want to do too much at once.

Overflow noise can be helped by adding a lid to the top of the overflow box and drilling a hole in the top of the elbow. Then silicone a piece of 1/4" airline tubing in it. Snip pieces off a little at a time then stop just as you can hear it getting louder. There's videos on YouTube on how to quiet overflows for this.
For reference on my return to sump.
 

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Hmmmm. Why did they say it wasn't good? I have ball valves on every single pipe I have... never been an issue. But, gate valves are supposed to be even better...
 

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