Duke's 50 cube build... Let the games begin

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

Here is a FTS... Still a little cloudy but it is cleaning up.... I am doing the raw shrimp method for cycling along with microbacter7

socal619 · Dec 1, 2013

Nice kev, my girl got me a 85mm macro I'll take some pics for you when I get it, gonna need practice anyway lol

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

socal619 said:
Nice kev, my girl got me a 85mm macro I'll take some pics for you when I get it, gonna need practice anyway lol

You can practice over at Vance's right now... He has all my livestock...LOL

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

powers2001 said:
Could I see a picture of the light hangers and how they work?

The light hangers are from Cad Lights. To be honest, I am not too impressed with them. Horrible customer service and being that they are about 125 miles away I should have received them in 1-2 days. Instead it took over a week and to top it all off it was missing most of the hardware....A quick run to Home Depot took care of that. I will never purchase anything from them again... I was very disappointed that I wasted $130 on these. If I would have known I would just have used the Aquatic Life hanging fixture that I am used to, it is much easier to work with and install.

Zack · Dec 1, 2013

Cant wait to see the 20k worth of coral in that sucker.

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

Zack said:
Cant wait to see the 20k worth of coral in that sucker.

No, that was a typo... More like $20.00

Zack · Dec 1, 2013

duke4130 said:
No, that was a typo... More like $20.00

Lol. I know you got the good stuff

socal619 · Dec 1, 2013

duke4130 said:
No, that was a typo... More like $20.00

lol I'll give you 40.00 for everything then

socal619 · Dec 1, 2013

duke4130 said:
You can practice over at Vance's right now... He has all my livestock...LOL

Gotta wait for the lense to ship

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

The Maggie Muffler is a wonderful little invention. The tank had a durso standpipe that was loud and causing a flushing effect due to the standpipe being 1 1/4 and the bulkhead being 3/4". I went to home depot and picked up an adapter for the 1 1/2" Maggie Muffler and now the drain doesn't make a sound.... Awesome

kingator · Dec 1, 2013

duke4130 said:
The Maggie Muffler is a wonderful little invention. The tank had a durso standpipe that was loud and causing a flushing effect due to the standpipe being 1 1/4 and the bulkhead being 3/4". I went to home depot and picked up an adapter for the 1 1/2" Maggie Muffler and now the drain doesn't make a sound.... Awesome

im having thats same issue ....im going to look into that

kingator · Dec 1, 2013

what will this b a mix reef or just lps ?

duke4130 · Dec 1, 2013

kingator said:
what will this b a mix reef or just lps ?

Just mainly Z/P and chalices.... I spaz out too much with SPS..LOL.... I just sold off all my SPS a couple of weeks ago

duke4130 · Dec 2, 2013

Ahhh... The raw shrimp smell so bad...lol... It was like a punch in the face when we walked in the house

PaulKreider · Dec 3, 2013

Great looking build! I Like how the aquasquape provides viewing angles on all three sides!

duke4130 · Dec 4, 2013

I am still having a issue with the sound but I think I found the fix.... The Maggie muffler helped but after a couple of days past I realized that drain is still way too loud. I did some reading and the drain noise is coming from the drain pipe under the tank because it is a straight drop from top to bottom.... The air is mixing with the water in the drain causing the gurgling sound.I am going to rig up a 90deg angle on the underside drain pipe and see if that takes care of the problem. By doing a 90deg angle underneath should let the water hit the 90 and flow on the underside and let the air escape on topside inside the drain. Hopefully that will fix the issue and give me a smooth flow of water with out the gurgling sound. I will post some before and after pics tonight when I finish