My build..

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

I started this build just after joining R2R.
Some of you said i should make a build page so here it goes. This us a father son project with my 13 year old. The main is a 100 gal and a 40b for the sump. I will post pictures of all and try to make frequent additions. If any of you have advise, please let me know.

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

This is our first batch of "agro-crete". Im happy about how it turned out with the exception of the color.

James Brewer · Mar 4, 2018

Dude. Is that your cat box?

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

Our main and future sump. Resaled both. Fingers crossed.

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

Son learned how to use the radial arm saw, tape mesure, and the krieg jig. The space off the back is a built in plumbing chase.

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

Ladies and gentlemen, the leak check is good!

1WildBill · Mar 4, 2018

Love father and son adventures like this.

Ranjib · Mar 4, 2018

Love it . Mine one tries hard to help me with electronics

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

Thats AWESOME!! What kind of electronics are you doing?

Dr. Dendrostein · Mar 4, 2018

Steve2 said:
Son learned how to use the radial arm saw, tape mesure, and the krieg jig. The space off the back is a built in plumbing chase.

Steve2 said:
Thats AWESOME!! What kind of electronics are you doing?

Very nice I like it. Keep us posted

Ranjib · Mar 4, 2018

Steve2 said:
Thats AWESOME!! What kind of electronics are you doing?

i have a full blown reef tank controller using raspberry pi.

Steve2 · Mar 4, 2018

Ranjib said:
i have a full blown reef tank controller using raspberry pi.

I was looking at doing something like that too! Do you have a thread on it? I was looking at maybe ardrino. Why did you choose Pii?

Ranjib · Mar 4, 2018

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/r...tank-controller-based-on-raspberry-pi.289256/

Ranjib · Mar 4, 2018

I chose Pi , because its gives me full blown linux system , which in turn gives me the ability to use high level languages (reef-pi is written in go) , and lot other functionalities (reef-pi has a built in web server, which provides the Web UI). Doing the same would involve lot more C code in arduino, also I'll be limited by memory/processing power.

Mike Reef Addict · Mar 7, 2018

Steve2 said:
I started this build just after joining R2R.
Some of you said i should make a build page so here it goes. This us a father son project with my 13 year old. The main is a 100 gal and a 40b for the sump. I will post pictures of all and try to make frequent additions. If any of you have advise, please let me know.

Awesome my 2.5 year old started a reboot build of her 6 gallon eclipse it was running great an it had a heater malfunction (I think she turned it up)
And the stock filter took a dive. Going to so a pico build thread soon too. She loves to help test and shake the test tubes. [emoji12]

Steve2 · Mar 18, 2018

Drilled the coast to coast bulkheads this weekend. Found i need to add 2" to the depth of the stand for plumbing. Put in 20 hours of OT this week so its slow going.

Steve2 · May 6, 2018

So.... life happened ya'll. Ive done a crappy job of documenting this build. So I'll try to catch up a little.

Steve2 · May 6, 2018

Had it up and running 14 days ago. In addition to my homemade rock there is a smallish piece of live rock. I am hoping that the coraline algae will spread. The sand bed is a Caribsea live. The cloudy water cleared up over night but i still had to knock dust off the glass once it was done.

Steve2 · May 6, 2018

Steve2 · May 6, 2018

Added 2 clowns an this hairy mushroom. The mushroom seems to have stressed a bit and got this mucus all over it self. It seems to have cleared up a ton over night so I think we are in the clear.