Tonyscoots84's 80 gallon deepblue rimless tank upgrade

[Tonyscoots84]

Nope i believe they are aluminum same material you get from bulk reef supply. Yea they have em in white n i think black as well at my homedepot.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

You could always scruff em upp with some fine gritt sandpaper and rustoleum whateva color you want

 

[Tonyscoots84]

here is what i have planned for plumbing.

i want to use a ball valve & union on both return and drain

the 3 T's with ball valves are to be used for my phosban and carbon reactor and 1 extra for whatever i add one day

getting glass tom. thanks rich sump will be siliconed tom.

getting real deal sch 80 bulkheads on thursday with the rest of the order so plumbing hopefully will be mostly done on thursday night :party:

 

[lnevo]

Why do you want a union on your drain? Maybe if you had it above the ball valve so you could do maintenance on the valve? Personally i like the idea of an unimpeded drain, but I would recommend putting the union closer to the bulkhead on the tank.

 

[masterswimmer]

Why do you want a union on your drain? Maybe if you had it above the ball valve so you could do maintenance on the valve? Personally i like the idea of an unimpeded drain, but I would recommend putting the union closer to the bulkhead on the tank.

+1000, I strongly agree with the unimpeded overflow. No union, no ball valve.

Russ

 

[Tonyscoots84]

I wanna use em....

 

[Tonyscoots84]

The reason behind it is so i can shut off the return n drain without it draining out and service or change when i want.

 

[lnevo]

What is the purpose of the union below the ball valve?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

If i wanna change something i wouldnt have to cut it jus undo the union

 

[lnevo]

That's fine...but I would still put it as close to the bulkhead as possible. This way you can clean out that ball valve or get rid of it later if you decide.

As far as overflow maintenance, you should be able to remove the entire assembly while only draining the overflow to the bottom edge of your durso assembly, the same as if your return pump was shutdown. I can see the use of the ball valve if you wanted to disassemble the whole overflow...but even that should only be another gallon or two of water.

 

[Dace]

Dude are you serious....
I thought you had about 20 fish in there already. I think i've done two down grades and a upgrade in this amount of time..

Glad to see it's coming along

We got sand :thrash:

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Its getting there im hoping to have it up n running real soon

 

[Dace]

Oh Snap!!!!
Looking Nice Baba-baby.
The sliding coaster a cool too.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Sump started will be done tom.

Ceiling started im doing it myself

Order came in from brs. A lil change i have to put threaded to slip adapter onto both sch 80 bulkheads. can i primer and glue the sch40 and tighten it as tight as possible?

1/2" acrylic uv resistant rod came in. Will start rock tom.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Rock structures done for now rest will be live rock

Sump done

 

[nanoreefer22]

Looks good, but I would go lower with the rockwork. In a shallow tank, tall aquascapes look cramped. I would take the rock down to about halfway up in the tank. On top of that, it'll give coral room to grow.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

This is def. stayin me likey

 

[lnevo]

Nice!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Thanks inevo. Kris i changed it n i love it. Was going to start the plumbing and come to realize the hole drilled in the glass is to small for a sch80 bulkhead so tom. After work
Im on a mission to find bulkheads that will fit

 

[Exotic Reef]

I like it way better like this nice looking forward to seeing it in a few months when everything is running smooth