Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Posted: **Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:01 pm**

drunken aquarium moving?

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:35 am**

YES...the guys hit our movie stand and it came crashing down onto Terry's soon to be refuge. Sorry Terry! I didnt think about moving the movie stand. oops. I regret that I didnt videotape them moving it in. It was funny.

It is in place now and I cant wait to add all the "fixings".

Deanna

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:32 am**

As we talked before I would add about 3in of water and ck the level. After you have a little water in you can measure from the water level to the plastic rim. If it is the same on all four corners then you are ok. You will want it about perfit for the skimmer boxes to wk corectly. Then you can take the water back out till you are ready if you want. All you should need is about an inch above the plastic. It will be the best level you could get. I know you are happy to have the tank in the house. It sure is looking good. See you Sat. Terry

Posted: **Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:03 pm**

ShagMan wrote:Welp, I just called, and the aquarium's delivery date got knocked back to Thursday; I'm ready and waiting! I got the other 30amp circuit wired in, so I now have 4 x 15A GFCI outlets behind the stand. I also was able to stain and polyurethane the stand (outside only), looks pretty decent! I still have a 55G that I need to get drilled, however, I was gonna drop it off when I picked up the tank, so I guess I'll do that on Thursday. I'm currently trying to procure a pallette of Southdown or equivalent, waiting on a callback now for prices... I'm also waiting on more money to roll in, from the sale of my last project, so that I can buy heater/pumps/etc.

ShagMan are you running 12-2 wire and 15 amp outlet off of a 30 amp breaker?

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2003 10:37 am**

no, I'm running 10-2 (orange sheath) for each 30 amp circuit, and there's two GFCI outlets (each rated for 15A) for each circuit. Total of two 30 amp circuits, two seperate 10-2 wire runs, and four GFCI outlets.

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:13 am**

You could just run an extersion cord from the garage.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:51 pm**

OK, I got most of the drains installed. I really wanted to share this, because this was a LOT cheaper than paying for the hardware that came with the tank, or so I'm thinking anyway. I spend a grand total of $50, and that was for all four drains, and for four Stockman overflows... I haven't put together the Stockman overflows yet, but here's pics of the hardware, and pics of the drains installed. The corrugated pipe was $6 for four 6' sections!! Also included in the $50 but not in the pic, was two 10' sticks of 1" pipe.... and all the bags of T's and elbows on the left is for making up the two spray bars that are gonna be mounted overhead.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:14 pm**

You still working on filling the tank up ? I am sure it will take at least a day unless you have been saving water a long time. I was asking because I did not see any water coming out of the drain hoses.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:19 pm**

It is going to be a waterless tank....plastic fish

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:51 pm**

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:33 am**

heheheh...so funny Terry. We are still filling it up. It is almost full, so we stopped running it overnight. Bad experiences with running water overnight! I think today it will finish filling!!

De

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:18 am**

Actually, it's about 4-5" below the teeth on the overflow as it is now, so I'm not gonna fill it any further.... the sand is gonna displace most of the rest of the volume. Waiting on that sand, hope it gets here soon!

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 9:23 am**

I think you will find it much quieter if you remove the teeth and replace with that plastic egg crate.. will lower the water backed up against the teeth and make a more even flow while taking just the top layer of water.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:54 am**

I played hookie from work today, and made these... only took about 20 minutes, but you HAVE to have a miter saw to cut them.... if anyone wants me to make them one up, I'll do it for free, just pay me the few $$ it takes for the plumbing parts, it's < $5 for each one. I can see now the overflow boxes are too large, but ohwell, better safe than sorry. These are called Stockman standpipes, after the guy that came up with the idea, they're very compact and are supposed to be like Durso standpipes, just take up less space, and much easier to adjust.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:47 pm**

OK, here's the overhead returns... not sure how well this is gonna work, but hey, if it doesn't, it's only like $20 down the tubes.

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