jestep Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Stand looks great! I want to see a video too! After running at 28" deep tank, I now know this is the deepest I'd ever want! My ear would end up in the tank when working on the bottom of a 110 x-high which is 29 - 30". 36" seems like it would be most of your head if trying to work on the sandbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reburn Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I'm sure if he has any problems he can go over to Ty's and get a lesson on how to hold your canopy with your head and use a grabber in each hand and play with the things on your sand bed. Ty is a Kung fu master with those things. I swear he can work his grabbers better then I can work my fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I agree the stand came out really nice. Can't wait to see the whole thing come together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 All those years of chopsticks have finally paid off! Lenver, I'm a big fan of the coralife aquatongs. They seem to be the best quality that I have found and can grab medium sized rocks on the sandbed easily. I occasionally use them to grab my 10" clam and move him around if needed. The stand does look great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 I have these tongs and will continue to use them in the new one, seems like they will do easily, I really don't mess around the sand bend that much, and what I'm going to do is predrilled holes on the background and on the rocks where I can easily slide frag plugs in them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Ok, got the egg crate, foam and salt, I will star this tomorrow or Tuesday since I'm feeling lazy, will do the cube first to workout any problems or issues that I might discover along the way before I do the big tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 8, 2014 Author Share Posted December 8, 2014 After thinking a lot about this next part I'm having second thoughts, now that I'm going back to work I don't think I'll have the time to go ahead and do the background and really don't see the need to do it in the cube since it will be used mostly as a frag tank at first. Will try and decide during this week, will go ahead and clean up both tanks and start working on the plumbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 I think setting up nice black frag racks in the cube would look good, and would be really space efficient too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 8, 2014 Author Share Posted December 8, 2014 Ok let's do a quick clean up and setup the light and see how it looks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Doing a leak test, all looks ok, so the cube is ready for pre-plumbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 So it seems I have the tools for drilling my acrylic sump, trying now to see how I'm going to setup the plumbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Started to do a little bit of fitting between the 2 tanks and the sump and seeing how big this thing really is, going to do some more sump drilling tomorrow and start to do the plumbing, it's going to be a beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 The good news is you will have lots of storage in the stand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Lol, the 55 gallon sump took about 65% of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 So I'm having issues on how to plumb this, I'm looking for some kind of flexible pipe that I can use between the tank and the stand, something that I'm able to remove so I can move them individually, my drains are 1" and my returns are 3/4", any feedback? I will use that only in between the tank and stand about 2' of length, the rest will be rigid pvc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Also since I'm going to move every single rock is there a dipping method that I could use to get rid of hair algae, it's in about 40% of the rocks, and I could just take it all out of the water and kill it, but that will kill the live bacteria from the rocks also, or is there a time frame that I could use to kill only the algae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I'd manually remove with a brush. You can do peroxide but you risk nuking your bacteria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I say peroxide and nuke the bacteria anyways. Some rocks may not require peroxide and will be able to seed your tank again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 I would say about half of the rocks would require it, so what percentage water and what percentage peroxide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 Ok so I placed the tanks in the finished stand, now I have to work on the plumbing, does anyone know what kind of hose is the one in the pick, the cube had two of these in the drains and they fit the one inch pipe, I have to use some like that for the build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmaytagg Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 Looks like pool plumbing to me. Readily available at Lowe's or home depot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 OK found the solution on the hose, one is for the 3/4 and the other is for the 1", both are very ridged will not kink and is movable, right I'm trying to see how much will be rigid pvc and how much and where I will use these sections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 Question, are my pics showing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenver Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 Test 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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