Rimless 8ft Planet Aquariums Reef

[najer]

Looking very nice.

 

[Aquainas]

beautiful setup. love your attention to detail.. you'd have a heart attack if you seen the plumbing and wiring under my 220, lol

Thank you! I appreciate you stopping and checking it out. I won't deny it, I probably would, lol!

looking great

Thank you!

 

[Aquainas]

Looking very nice.

Thank you very much! Stick around, the sticks are about to join the party...pun intended.

 

[Mark Gray]

Looks great really nice build will follow along

 

[SD_Reefing]

That's a really awesome looking setup you got there.

 

[Corals.com]

Looks awesome so far! Nice work!

 

[don_chuwish]

Love the setup - especially the aquascape and remote sump. That bare naked steel stand is gorgeous. But I'm confused by the drains where they enter the sump - I see valves on two of them and flow sensors on two of them. Which ones are full, partial and emergency?

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

Nice build, you could use the glass from the hole saw for coasters. Funny your are going to use the nice bathtub for your skimmer. Dude I think you can afford a Utility sink, I wished I had one, no room.

 

[biecacka]

Great setup so, following along to see your progress. What sort of flow are you getting from your COR pumps thru the readers?

Corey

 

[Snook65]

Repeating what the others have already said, but beautiful setup. I cannot wait to see some corals go in.

 

[Aquainas]

Looks great really nice build will follow along

Thank you! Glad to have you following along.

That's a really awesome looking setup you got there.

Thank you for the kind words

Looks awesome so far! Nice work!

Thanks alot, I really appreciate it!

 

[Aquainas]

Love the setup - especially the aquascape and remote sump. That bare naked steel stand is gorgeous. But I'm confused by the drains where they enter the sump - I see valves on two of them and flow sensors on two of them. Which ones are full, partial and emergency?

Thank you so much for the compliments. It's taken alot of careful planning and execution, which is now paying off.
As far as the drains go quite simple really...Valve completely open is full siphon, and has flow monitoring, middle drain is emergency with flow monitoring, Apex is programmed to alert me whenever water hits...and third drain is partial with no monitoring as I expected some air in it which would affect the flow monitor.

Hope that clarifies it you you.

One of the benefits of monitoring the flow rate of the full siphon drain is knowing exactly how much flow is required to get the overflow dead silent, which happens to be 745gph. I can assume the partial drain is around 400gph since both return pumps combined are pushing 1160gph.

 

[Aquainas]

Nice build, you could use the glass from the hole saw for coasters. Funny your are going to use the nice bathtub for your skimmer. Dude I think you can afford a Utility sink, I wished I had one, no room.

Thank you and what a great idea!
Pretty sure I did say I was kidding about using the tub as a slop sink

 

[Aquainas]

Great setup so, following along to see your progress. What sort of flow are you getting from your COR pumps thru the readers?

Corey

Thanks Corey! And thanks for stopping by and following along. Im quite happy with the performance of the COR pumps. Have a look...

And don't let the 100% on the virtual switch fool you. These pumps are only at 51% output

 

[Aquainas]

Ive got the IQ adjustment set so that the pumps only run as fast as the system ever needs them.

 

[CoralWealth]

everything looks great! following along

 

[Aquainas]

Thank you!

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

Sorry I missed the humor about the bath tub, funny.

 

[James Barton]

Any updates?

 

[James Barton]

Any new updates on this?