PNY's 1000 liter (lots of DIY)

Thanks!

Well... I probably am...

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Thanks!

I recently added this shelf (DIY) to my left hand side cabinet to fit all my gadgets...



(Note that the slave dosing pump is used on my smaller reef tank instead).

 

You don't happen to be in the aquarium installation and maintenance business do you?

Wow. I am not sure where to start.

I am very impressed by your installations and your aquarium. I am also very impressed with your mastery of the new 3reef post editor. lol. Great to see.

What are you using for sound-proofing? I have used bed-foam in the past, but you are using something different it appears.

matt

 

This is a very impressive build. How do the overflows work. I would like to see more of what you did there.

 

Wow, just wow. I can not get my head around that sump set up. Can you go into further explanation of how exactly it works? I am also interested in the overflow you have. I can not tell you how impressed I am.

 

beautiful tank! love your little observers

 

Really nice! Enjoy the DIY part of our hobby......allows thinking outside the box or dual chamber....lol If I may ask what did you use for the gray tops of your pellet reactors?
Enjoyed the video's very much also!!!

 

I'm an engineer at heart, designing and building my own equipment is part of my hobby. (My profession is system design of embedded software).

Thanks!

It's sold as sheets of sound proofing foam here in Sweden.

The overflow is my own version of the all-PVC-overflow design... I'm afraid I dont got a detailed description of the design, but I basically increased the inlet size, doubled a few pipes and converted the vertical parts to the Durso design... It swallows the water I want (I've tested as much as 6000 l/h / 1580 US gallons/h). It can be totally silent but requires careful adjustment to get there... (See photos below).

Thanks... It's my two sons.

Thanks! (Also see photos below)

Some photos of my overflow design....


Unfolded (to show how its connected, note that one vertical pipe is missing in the middle.)


Folded as used (note that vertical pipe's is not connected)


Airlines to remove collected air.


Unions for easier maintenance.

 

Posting some additional photos of my sump...


Old photo of my sump (Some eqiupment, ie: Manifold on return is missing, Eheim pump is replaced by much more powerful Laguna pump...)

Sump Design



ATO section
I have located the ATO-section under skimmer section... (I've never seen any one else use that design, but its a really good space saver). Also note the red arrow that shows how water flows back to my ATO-section instead of overflowing onto my floor in case of malfunction.

Skimmer section
The water comes down from the aquarium in this section. The skimmer section holds the skimmer, the ozone water pump and also held an algae scrubber for a period of time...

Unused section
The sump has an currently unused section in the middle of the bubble trap. This was first designed for a passive cooling section, circulating a separated volume of water under my house, but I never implemented that... This section is probably being converted to a cryptic zone or a low flow filter with siporax or Seachem matrix media in the future.

Water change section
This section can be isolated from the rest of the sump by turning a valve. The main purpose of this section is to hold water that is being mixed with salt during water changes. I siphon all water in this section, add new water and salt, and wait for it to heat and mix... This section also houses some of my reactors.

Return section
This section holds the return pump and the ATO level-sensor. The water level in this section is set really low to have space for the water coming down from the display tank in case of power outage.

Sump Construction Photos

 

Truly impressive and inspiring.

 

Very nice set up. Can't wait till I have more time to read your thread in detail.