Upgrade 2.0

drernesto · Oct 15, 2016

Hello guys,
This is my second upgrade on the tank.
After enlarging the sump, I'm connecting a frag tank and a water change to my main system.
This drawing is old, and I didn't have time to modify it.
The frag tank will be 100x60x40cm and beside it, I'll have a coral QT.

I purchased this overflow and 2 others the medium size and small size at MACNA. The guys of Eshopps and specially Mr. Louie are supper nice!
I'll have an AP700 over the frag tank, which I also purchased at MACNA.

drernesto · Oct 16, 2016

Frag tank glued today

Daniel@R2R · Oct 17, 2016

NICE! Following!!

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

Thanks for this beautiful piece @Eshopps

Everything is leveled

I had this small issue with the steel that I had to remove 2 layers of the plywood in the front corner. About 2mm

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

When my wife saw it, she told me nice! I'm impressed [emoji3]

tomtom2245 · Oct 19, 2016

Looking good! I'm impressed with your glass building skills!

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

Thanks!

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

tomtom2245 said:
Looking good! I'm impressed with your glass building skills!

Thanks!

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

tomtom2245 said:
Looking good! I'm impressed with your glass building skills!

Thanks!

maroun.c · Oct 19, 2016

Looking Nice.
Looks like they welded the horizontal part to the vertical beam instead of laying it over and then welding. Should have been the opposite as its stronger (bit an issue with the minimal load) and also a more straight support.
Looking forward to see it full.

drernesto · Oct 19, 2016

maroun.c said:
Looking Nice.
Looks like they welded the horizontal part to the vertical beam instead of laying it over and then welding. Should have been the opposite as its stronger (bit an issue with the minimal load) and also a more straight support.
Looking forward to see it full.

Thanks... yeah that's how the guy did it... couldn't see it as I was in MACNA enjoying my time [emoji6]
You know my address [emoji3] pass by whenever in Lebanon

drernesto · Dec 31, 2016

This upgrade is going really slow! I didn't have time to connect my frag tank to the system. I need to make many coring holes for the plumbing. Today I added a black board to the bottom as it will be a bare bottom tank, this will help protecting the glass and will hide to markings on the plywood. Stole the idea from Mr. Mike Paletta on his Elos tank[emoji6]
I hope that after the New Year I'll be able to finish it.

drernesto · Feb 6, 2017

What do u think guys?
Connecting two 1" to 1 1/4"
This is for the frag tank. Return pump 4000L
3/4"

drernesto · Feb 6, 2017

Am I doing it right??

revhtree · Feb 6, 2017

Very nice!

drernesto · Feb 11, 2017

Today was the big day! The only thing that I was afraid off is to hit a drain pipe in the building structure wile coring. Everything went fine! Thanks God.
Done 4 coring holes to connect the frag tank to the main.