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Wow! That is awesome!

sounds like alot of water lol how much did ya loose?

I have no idea.

awesome! Nice work, going to be tough to get any work done now ehh?

Yes!

Also of note.... Got to work this am and had a leak in the water line last night. Not sure exactly what happened but the property manager is kinda pissed at me and I expect a rather large bill!

Water extraction, fans in 3 offices and a dehumidifier in my office. In a few days they will come back and clean the carpets.

Sometimes I wish simple stuff like video games or tv would keep my attention.

Water is clearing up. Looks pretty cool! Kinda sterile right now but I will fix that soon enough.

I worked on this $#%!@ tank most of yesterday and all day today! Carried 20 5 gallon jugs of water from parking lot to building to elevator to office(4 trips to LFS) mounted the power heads, mounted the controller, mounted controller power strips, tried to get controller to hook up to computer network, tried to install skimmer and realized my sump is not deep enough, exchanged it for a Bubble Magnus(not real happy about this but I think it will be ok), plugged everything in to make sure breaker has enough capacity, let tank run for 2 hours and saw no leaks, adjusted return lines to make sure siphon does not flood sump when return pump goes off, added salt to the tank, cleaned up extra supplies/tools and inoculated tank with bacteria.

Long day!

Still got lots for tidying up to do(wires), some programming to do, still need to install auto topoff and get it working, need to calibrate and install pH and ORP probes, finish installing skimmer. Then later install reactors and ozone.

I hope the water will clear up by morning. I will take another pic if it is.

Thanks to Fishy Business for letting me borrow jugs overnight, for free!

Functional tank!

ur prob too far from here but if u need to borrow jugs ur more than welcome to

Thanks! Very kind. I got it running a bit faster now. And I am running jugs back and forth to store..... So fun

Interesting little unit. If you have decent water pressure you should be good with it after the initial setup.

You make a great point.... that thing is going SLOW! there is a pressure gauge installed on the line for a drinking water filter and dispenser. I tapped the line downstream from the pressure reducer. I think it has reduced the pressure in the line going to the RODI and is making the water craw out. The tank should be half full by now and it is not even close. I think tomorrow I will piss ant some water back and forth from a store to help it along. Then try to find another place to mount the intake so that I do not have low pressure in the future.

Aside from the water coming out slow that filter is awesome! 5 stages and I am monitoring the TDS - 145-150 in and 0 out. 5 stage RODI and very compact.

I found a very small 5 stage filter at Air Water Ice. It only makes 30-50 gallons/day but it is small enough to fit in the break room's sink cabinet and has no waste line.

Got it hooked up this am, ran the supply line to the tank, taped it down to the floor and the tank is now filling!

No leaks so far.

30-40 gallons per day, 125ish gallons.... Gonna take a little while but at least it is finally filling up!

Wife is headed home this weekend to visit family. I should be able to finish installing everything if I hustle.

I can host September or October meeting at my office. We have a big conference room. It is at 183 and Mopac.

Awesome, thanks for posting the pen pic, that really gives a nice perspective on the size, it's a little larger than I was thinking. Looks great. Sump looks nice too.

Thanks!

Made it up to the office for a little bit today to work in the tank. Lots of mounting today. If the wife was as.... Nevermind.

So I mounted the GFCI outlet, the battery backup(that thing is heavy!) and the light's power supply box. Also mostly installed the heaters and I hung the light fixture!

I was planning on working on the tank most of the day Friday. Did not happen, but I was able to spend a few hours on it. I programmed to light(I think I did was anyway), connected and wired the cabinet lights, wired and mounted the fan, installed the supplemental power strip and started on the auto top off. Still have a long way to go.

I also found a very small RODI unit that I can fit in a cabinet in the break room. Should make top off water generation possible. Slow and cumbersome, but possible.

looks cool, i'm having trouble with proportions... have a shot that gives an idea of size perspective? Very creative.

Here is a pic with a pen in the front, may help a bit.

I'm a coral guy and I am struggling with the fish list to place in the tank. Need some help please. Here is my basic criteria:

I do not want a tang in a tank this small.

I'd like as many tank bred as possible... clowns, manderin, for sure, others...

I have no lid so I can't have gobies or likely jumpers.

No high dollar fish.

I really really want a school of something

The current in the tank should be in the moderate to moderatly high range... so cardinals scare me. They school and they are tank raised but they do not like strong current.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

looks cool, i'm having trouble with proportions... have a shot that gives an idea of size perspective? Very creative.

I am going to work on the tank tomorrow and I will try to get a pic. In the mean time the tank is 36x36x22 tall. Temple is about 24" across at the base.

Nice!

I'm a numbers geek... so skip this post if you don't do numbers

Here are the numbers on the temple

$35 - Stone

$102 - 2 part epoxy

$85 - wet saw rental(paver saw)

$###.## - 3 hours total design/scale/draw/redraw/layout of temple

$###.## - approximatley 6 hours total building time to construct temple

I'm mostly happy with the way it came out. If I could go back I'd change a few things to make it look better but considering the limited materials and the lack of professional drawings and instructions I'll claim it as mine.

Welcome! And enjoy the ride

Here are a few top down from before I added the sand

And the internal support column

That is awesome! I love that area, will never forget swimming with the cuddle fish there.

Hope you have a blast working down there ad I hope those beds are doing ok!

Tank is freaking awesome. Very unique.

Thanks!

Are those some Cerameco caves peeking out of the back? Can't wait to see what this looks like with livestock in it!

Good eye! Yes they are. I got the combo pack with a small med and large. They were bigger than I expected. I almost put 2 up front but decided to put them on the corners. I really like them

That looks awesome! How will you move water inside the temple?

It will mostly be a low flow area but some flow from the powerheads will get in there and make a current