The beast is dead!! long live the Newer Beast??

[Reefpestsolutions]

O man you just had to mention the Skimmer. That thing is going to be insane (BEASTLY) it's getting a makeover allso. I would pout it up against the best on the market maybe in the world. Mojoreef maybe able explain and tell you what it did up against a ????????

 

[Mojoreef]

Mojoreef maybe able explain and tell you what it did up against a ????????

No Matt I dont want any bad blood on that one. All I will say is that we had some of the heavy hitters in the skimmer building world throw down for a one vs one with the airstones. Thye didnt go home happy but did go home a little wet lol.


Mojo

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok dragged my big butt into the tank and did a little simple plumbing...or should I say "Lego for Adults"??? lol

So on my tank I run two closed loops, each one has a motorized ball valve so it drives a 3000gph pump one way into the tank and then every couple of minutes it switches over to the other side.

From their it goes into the tank. On the tank side I just built simple tree's made out of a couple of 4 ways and didnt glue it, I will attach locline to each output. The concept here is to build the locline into the rockwork so I want to be able to adjust as I go for both length and direction. Anyway here is a quick pic.

Mojo

 

[Mojoreef]

Oh and the LED parts are starting to show up.

 

[tike]

Ummmm...... Hi everyone!:wink:

Mojo, i just started revamping my long neglected 60 cube. haven't started a thread thou....

 

[bige]

So will flow come from those white pvc pipes? And the leds look awesome!

 

[Mojoreef]

Start one up Tike i havent seen that tank in forever!!

Bige, yea so on one closed loop all the water will come into one of those PVC trees (still have to attach locline) then when the MBV switches side it will come out of the other, So same thing on both side, each tree has four 3/4 outputs, but I will probably split a couple with locline tee's

Mojo

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok little update. While I am waiting for the last of the rock I decided to look around the fish room and see how things were looking, so I take a peek at my sump and its bowed like 2.5 inches in the middle all the baffles have broken off and its kind of warping up the sides????

So I ripped it out and with the good graces of my buddy Peppie, we brought it to his shop. We decided to just reenforced the corners with some triangles and then scribed in some new baffles.

Peppie making some snow

and then gluing them in.

mojo

 

[Aquaph8]

Sweet tank man, it's coming along nicely

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok so we finely started on the rockwork, so not much talking just lots of pics. Big thanks to Matt, Dave, and Eric for coming over and helping me make it happen.

Gathered up some of the tools of the trade.

Time for some cutting!!

Not sure why we started with an arch but we had to get the creative stuff out of the way, lol

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok time for some walls

Caulking some of the flats

drilling for some zipties

and then trying to find the hole you just drilled

then snugging them tight

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok here is the right side of the tank, its really hard to see the detail as the rock color and texture is all the same, but their are 4 overhanging arches and a bunch of shelving

Then on the right looking towards the center

and the top down on the right so you get an idea of the arches and ledges

So we ran out of locline so while I am waiting I will do some dressing up, by cutting back the foam, adding some small ledges and filling in the black foam with some smaller pieces to hide the gaps

Mojo

 

[bige]

That looks great. Are you going bare bottom?

 

[Mojoreef]

No I will put a couple of inches, Ijstwant al te rock work done prior to putting it in.

Mojo

 

[Mojoreef]

Alright so we made enough progress with the bigger pieces so I figured I would cut up some little shelves to kind of give the rockwork some detail and some coral placing areas.

Then made a bunch of them

Then found neat and creative ways to mount them onto the rock work, lol

Never give Matt the foam can lol

and then glue in a bunch

mojo

 

[Mojoreef]

Ok so all the scaping is done, still having issues taking a decent picture but here are some shots

Right side

Middle of the tank from kind of a top down

From the middle top looking right

This one came out half decent from the right looking left

Then looking from the middle to the left from the top. Show the big island thats kind of on its own

So the sand is in and the water is mixing, we will give her a fill tomorrow.

Mojo

 

[skinz78]

Looking good Mojo! I may have to come see this bad boy some day!

 

[SmokeyCFH]

Wow, that was a great looking tank! Good luck rebuilding it and getting it back to normal!

 

[landyn2004]

Cool aquascaping!

 

[bige]

Thats awesome.