Sac-Town 225

Poriferan · Mar 28, 2013

This tank came with these drains, what are the thoughts on running like this vs doing a Herbie style with full siphon and an emergency drain? The pipes are 1 1/2" and the return pump is a dart.

Scoly · Mar 28, 2013

Is that Ron's old tank?

Poriferan · Mar 28, 2013

:gossip: It is. I got the entire system he was running minus the frag tank and rock. He had the tank set up with closed loop but the barracuda pump was shot so I am going to try to move the water with in tank pumps. I figure I can always add the closed loop back if I need the extra flow down the road

Poriferan · Mar 28, 2013

I have these plus a 55 gal glass sump I can use. I just need to wrap my brain around how I am going to plumb this. Part of me says just put a sump or 2 under the stand, the rest of me says to plumb it out to the garage. I just worry about the heat in the Garage on the 110 deg. days we can get here.

Scoly · Mar 29, 2013

Cool, can't wait to see what you do with it! Nice tank for sure! Unless you have a good chiller, I wouldn't put it in the garage. Our summers are like yours, maybe a little worse.

Poriferan · Mar 29, 2013

Scoly said:
Cool, can't wait to see what you do with it! Nice tank for sure! Unless you have a good chiller, I wouldn't put it in the garage. Our summers are like yours, maybe a little worse.

Thanks! I fear you are right... but it would really be nice to have the noise, mess, and extra water volume in the garage. Buying/running a much larger chiller to have these things...

If I go under stand I have about 40 gallons of extra water here.

I could squeeze another 29 Gal,or a 40 gal I have in there also, but that would put a 90 right off the return to get the dart to hook up.

revhtree · Mar 29, 2013

Wow loving this!

Poriferan · Mar 29, 2013

This is the stand I will be using. I beefed it up and restored it. I will build a canopy for it that extends down 12" on each side to cover the gap.

MoeManTheSnowMan · Mar 29, 2013

Following along...

Poriferan · Mar 29, 2013

MoeManTheSnowMan said:
Following along...

Thanks. I hope to get the tank moved over to the stand this weekend, then I can start plumbing it:xd:

I have decided to keep everything under the stand for now. I have a 40B set up in the garage and will monitor that with the chiller this summer before I commit to expanding the system out there.

larangcon · Mar 29, 2013

So far so good, just following along.

Poriferan · Mar 29, 2013

larangcon said:
So far so good, just following along.

Thanks for following!!

I got a lot of feedback on doing the sumps in the garage from the local MARS reef club forum and while some do it, I will not be starting out this build like that.

Poriferan · Mar 30, 2013

Let just say... that was heavy.

Holiday weekend so may not get a lot done but here is tank on the new stand.

VHO's on

Poriferan · Apr 3, 2013

Lots of progress...

Plumbing is finished. Please disregard the dangerous-looking electrical box hanging near the sump... It is not plugged in and has since been removed.

Poriferan · Apr 3, 2013

Did a tap water leak test. Had a small leak at the pump outlet. I didn't see it until I had drained the tank so I pulled the pump and replaced the teflon tape with plumbers putty. I hope this fixed it.

Water test went well, I got the drains dialed in but I think I will be changing them to pull from the top of the overflow. Power off is dumping the entire overflow and the sump wasn't able to handle it.

I also moved the returns closer to the surface for the same reason. I still need to check the sump capacity after these mods.

Poriferan · Apr 3, 2013

This is the first and hopefully final interior design. It is not exactly what I wanted, but having built many other tanks, it never is...

The RO fill is started.