Coils 50g low boy frag tank

[Dsnakes]

Everything looks great!

 

[coil1002]

Everything looks great!

Thank you. I can' wait to get it cycled and start stocking

 

[newbreefer316]

Looking good, I've got a pair of lowboys with the eshopps eclipse as well and ended drilling them low too. First time drilling a tank so I watched all the videos and followed the instructions to the T

 

[Linkfalcon]

Looks good

 

[coil1002]

Got my check valve, marinepure block, and skimmer in today. Had to cut the block in half to fit the skimmer.Fed the tank some mysis to get the cycle started. Letting the skimmer run to get it broke in.

All set up and ready to cycle. It has taken 800 watts of heating to keep this tank at 77.5. The tank is in the garage and here in wa state its around 47 degrees.

Finally the overflow is all set up I have never had so much problems with sealing a bulkhead before.

 

[BigJohnny]

Got my check valve, marinepure block, and skimmer in today. Had to cut the block in half to fit the skimmer.Fed the tank some mysis to get the cycle started. Letting the skimmer run to get it broke in.

All set up and ready to cycle. It has taken 800 watts of heating to keep this tank at 77.5. The tank is in the garage and here in wa state its around 47 degrees.

Finally the overflow is all set up I have never had so much problems with sealing a bulkhead before.

Looking good boss. What do you attribute the bulkhead problems to, the overflow?

 

[coil1002]

Looking good boss. What do you attribute the bulkhead problems to, the overflow?

Actually the instructions. They suck they tell you to use both seals on the outside of the bulkhead between the glass and the overflow box. I being a super genius thought that did not make since. So I looked it up on the good ole interwebs and found a video by eshopps on how to install the overflow. In the video they tell you to put a seal between the glass and the overflow box and one inside the external overflow box between the the bulkhead nut and the box. Ofcourse the seal slips on the nut side and it leaks like a sieve. After trying 5 different ways of placing the seal. I finally decided to do what the directions said and ofcourse dry as a bone that way.

Lesson once again learned RTFM

 

[coil1002]

Frag tank is finally looking Fraggy


Top down

FTS

Stylopora mother

My new acro mother

 

[Dsnakes]

Looking good! Lots of space to fill!

 

[Foxy]

Got the overflow drilled and installed. Was a lot easier to drill than I thought.

All drilled

Installed and ready.

Looks pretty good just have to get the return installed. Oh and a sump.

So, how far from the top would you say to drill the hole and how big is the hole?