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05-30-2008, 06:15 AM
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#271 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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Originally Posted by Otty  So when is the first trial run of H2O going to be???  | Either tomorrow night or early Sunday morning. I've got to hook up the drains to the new dual filter sock I bought and hook up the closed loop and this thing SHOULD be water tight...
Oh, also need to figure out how to plumb the fuge but it shouldn't be hard... just takes time... _________ Kris
180 gallon AGA display re-born on 7-1-08. If I listed all of my equipment my wife would know what I've spent on this thing. Don't want to sign divorce papers.  My 180 Tank Thread | 
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05-30-2008, 06:19 AM
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#272 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Originally Posted by KOgle The overflow boxes inside the tank are courtesy of Tangster (and Amcarrig for getting them off the shelf). Karma to you two as well.  | I was too lathered up with Ben Gay to get them off the shelf that week so all karma goes to Roger | |
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05-30-2008, 06:19 AM
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#273 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Just remember to stay away from barbed fittings because they reduce flow. Quote:
Originally Posted by amcarrig I was too lathered up with Ben Gay | Is that what you and Roger call it now days.... _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | 
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05-30-2008, 06:23 AM
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#274 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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05-30-2008, 07:31 AM
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#275 (permalink)
| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Originally Posted by KOgle Either tomorrow night or early Sunday morning. I've got to hook up the drains to the new dual filter sock I bought and hook up the closed loop and this thing SHOULD be water tight...
Oh, also need to figure out how to plumb the fuge but it shouldn't be hard... just takes time... |
I'd pass up on the filter socks .. never found nor saw a need for them .. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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05-30-2008, 09:57 AM
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#276 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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I like the way Otty's work and they seem to be finer mesh than the filter pads I was using in the wet dry.
No Otty, no barbed fittings in the 180 now (except for the reactors) everything is at least 1 inch PVC. Spent the money on those pumps and I want to use them to their fullest potential. Got to go with the flow...  | |
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05-30-2008, 09:28 PM
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#277 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Beatrice, NE
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ok this may be a stupid question but I see how barbed fittings could reduce flow, but I'm wondering how to plumb flexible pipe without using barbs?
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55 gallon display, 10 gallon sump, letterbox fuge, 260 W odyssea pc lighting, to be continued... | |
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05-30-2008, 10:11 PM
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#278 (permalink)
| | Millepora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Originally Posted by KOgle I glued the standpipes together to make one piece and I already wish I hadn't of. bmsheehan was over there helping me out and the one he glued up doesn't have enough pipe on the end to keep the standpipe in the fitting going out of the tank. I'll have to get some water in the tank to see if it will work or not. If not it's back to Lowe's I guess...
I got the overflow boxes siliconed in last night as well as installed the last bulkhead and connected the fitting to those. Tonight I just need to throw some doubled up 45's on the back of the tank (to make my 90 degree bends) and it will be ready to get back on the stand. I might run some silicone on the inside of the overflow boxes as well just to make sure they're sealed. Hard to get my arm down inside those things though... | Wait a minute... who cut the pipe that was too short...  , I believe his name started with K and ended with ogle!!
What about karma for the help?!?! Damn, gotta beg for it nowadays!!!!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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06-02-2008, 05:33 AM
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#279 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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Originally Posted by bmshehan Wait a minute... who cut the pipe that was too short... , I believe his name started with K and ended with ogle!!
What about karma for the help?!?! Damn, gotta beg for it nowadays!!!!! | Hey bro, the pipe was cut the right length, someone (maybe bmshehan) pushed it in there too far. It's not a coupling that has a stop built in to it. I believe you were the one who glued that one... | |
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06-02-2008, 05:52 AM
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#280 (permalink)
| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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Got quite a bit done on the tank this weekend. It got it's first water test and everything sealed up nicely except for one fitting. Tightened it up a tad and hopefully that will take care of it. New durso's are working great and I can finally crank that Mag18 return pump wide open!!!
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