Wrangy's Reef Dungeon (Waterbox 170)

YHSublime · Oct 18, 2019

Reefing aint' cheap! I'm going to consider a water mixing station at the new house for both beer and saltwater. I'll finally be able to funnel my "waste" water into rainbarrels or the washer!

Wrangy said:
@YHSublime i got trapped down a rabbit hole last night you might like haha

I like that it says bottles, but it's all photos of cans. How does that really shake out? Is that price per bottle/can?

Wrangy · Oct 20, 2019

GBRsouth said:
Interested to see how this goes for you. I plan on buying from them too. So keep us posted.

Definitely

So far Daniel has been great and the delivery was super quick which I was really pleased about!!

YHSublime said:
Reefing aint' cheap! I'm going to consider a water mixing station at the new house for both beer and saltwater. I'll finally be able to funnel my "waste" water into rainbarrels or the washer!

haha preaching to the choir! Sounds like you've got a good plan for your water use haha I can't wait to see you setup in the new house mate! It's fantastic news!

YHSublime said:
I like that it says bottles, but it's all photos of cans. How does that really shake out? Is that price per bottle/can?

haha I thought that was rather amusing as well. I think they're just lazy and everything is just labelled bottle even though most of it is cans haha and yep, that's price per can lol I went a little over the top but craft beer here is still on the expensive side. I also bought a lot of weird and wonderful stuff that comes with a premium on top of the craft beer premium haha

Wrangy · Oct 20, 2019

The tank is officially booked in for delivery on Friday haha

I can't wait!! I'll try and get my RO running this evening and hopefully have a few hundred litres made before the tank arrives!

Wrangy · Oct 20, 2019

I've started soaking and cleaning some of the equipment that will be coming across as well. I want to have absolutely zero transfer of nasties from the tank to the new tank!!

Wrangy · Oct 21, 2019

Beer delivery and water barrels for my mixing station are here and ready!

Wrangy · Oct 23, 2019

Tomorrow is delivery daaayayy

tripdad · Oct 23, 2019

Hope all goes well!

YHSublime · Oct 24, 2019

Waiting with baited breath!

Perry · Oct 24, 2019

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Hopefully you are busy unboxing

Wrangy · Oct 24, 2019

tripdad said:
Hope all goes well!

YHSublime said:
Waiting with baited breath!

Perry said:
????
Hopefully you are busy unboxing

Thanks guys!! I'm so excited it's not funny haha tank is coming this afternoon and I'm hoping all the goodies are as well. I'm setting the RO unit properly as we speak too! Will post some pics of that till the tank arrives!

Wrangy · Oct 24, 2019

We have water!! And I'll never have to carry, a barrel again!!

Still needs a slight clean and organise but that, will come once I've flushed the RO membrane in an hour or so!

Wrangy · Oct 24, 2019

There's officially RO water in a drum!!!

Wrangy · Oct 24, 2019

Happy days!

Wrangy · Oct 25, 2019

OH. MY. GOD.

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL

I have to say that putting it together was a breeze! And with the help of the ever wonderful Dave I now have a tank again!!!!! It was a bit heavy with only three people to lift it but it was literally out the van and 5m through the one door and on top of the stand! No doors, walls or glass were harmed in the making of this tank! (the floor did get a bit wet a couple times but that was my fault haha and is it really a tank build if you don't spill water?)

The tank has been positioned and shimmied around a thousand times but I am really happy with where it is in the room!!

The sump is in and it's all plumbed! I'll be stealing some equipment this weekend to get this rolling along again! It was a little bit of fanangaling to get the RO into the tank haha but we got there!

And we have water a filling!

Few hours later and we've got something I'll call a start!! Please excuse the feet in the pic haha it has been a long day

All in all it was a smooth day and everything was very pleasant to get things done! The reason there are no doors on the tank is my choices were wait for a tank that had doors in a couple weeks or get a doorless tank now and get doors later haha I think we can all agree on which decision was best haha

I'm really pleased with the size of the tank and over the moon that @Waterbox Aquariums make a 4.5ft tank!! 4ft wouldn't have been worth it and 5ft was going to be a touch big but I would have done it but the 170.4/5 is just perfect!! I can't wait for the process of getting to a running tank!!

NY_Caveman · Oct 25, 2019

Awesome! Looks great. Glad it all went well.

Wrangy · Oct 25, 2019

NY_Caveman said:
Awesome! Looks great. Glad it all went well.

Thanks man!! I'm just so over joyed to have a tank here!!

@C. Eymann nice to see you on R2R mate, you're a familiar name from my RC days!! haha

C. Eymann · Oct 25, 2019

Wrangy said:
Thanks man!! I'm just so over joyed to have a tank here!!

@C. Eymann nice to see you on R2R mate, you're a familiar name from my RC days!! haha

You as well!
Great looking dungeon or "man cave" as they are called here in the US. Look forward to seeing this build come together, looks fantastic so far!

YHSublime · Oct 25, 2019

Looks great man! Can you imagine now what that big one would have looked like?!

Perry · Oct 25, 2019

Congrats Dom!
Looking sharp my friend, going to be epic!

Wrangy · Oct 27, 2019

C. Eymann said:
You as well!
Great looking dungeon or "man cave" as they are called here in the US. Look forward to seeing this build come together, looks fantastic so far!

Still a man cave reef but I like the ring of dungeon haha Thanks mate!