75 gallon aquaculture

[bristle]

Hello,

I currently have a very successful 20 gallon long in which I house roughly 80 frags and colonies of various sizes.

I am expanding to include a 75 gallon. As of right now, I have 4x54W T5HO, a canopy, the aquarium, and a stand. I have an ASM G-1 skimmer that I may or may not use.

I was wondering about plumbing and flow. Would 2 modded 6025s be pretty good?

Plumbing...should I go with 1" or 3/4"? What kind of internal overflow would be pretty good?

[bristle]

I will be running a 3/4" outlet pump; 660gph at 1', 360gph at 4' and 190gph at 6' (Rio 10HF...I have it already), so I guess that determines that my return will be in 3/4" PVC/spaflex.

Since I want to be safe, would going with 1" overflow piping be best?

Thanks.

[A.T.T.R]

is this new money pit drilled?
if so. you need to go with what ever its drilled for

if your using HOB u tube syte,.. i think that uses 1 1/4 felxiable pool vacume hose

[bristle]

It is not drilled but I will be drilling it. Just wondering what diameter I should drill it.

Money pit...haha...Tell me about it...after a year of my 20 gallon long I'm still 62% in the hole.

[A.T.T.R]

my hole keeps getting bigger! ( building 4 ft by 12-15 ft tank tommorrow..... lol)


keep inmind 1 inch hole will not take a 1 inch pipe

buy the bulk head you will use first... ( yeah go 1 inch ) then drill for that bulkhead ( i think 1 - 3/4 i forget) then make sure thtat the tnak isnt tempered

[TomNeely]

...well make sure it is not tempered before you drill...lol

[bristle]

No, not tempered...It's your standard AGA 75 gallon with the tempered bottom. I am thinking of an external durso with a small 6 x 4 x 4 overflow in the middle, or maybe I will try the herbie method.

[bristle]

How are you going to go about your 4 x 15 aquarium with flow and lights? Here I think that a 75 gallon will hold quite a bit more than my 20 gallon. I may as well get a 2000sqft greenhouse and go from there.

[A.T.T.R]

id kill for a large green house... or even the land that would let me have one :( hmm hopfully within three years ill be out of florida and having a green house ( land is alot of money and we have bad storms... up north.. yeah tornados but.. chances are slim)

anyways you should just go and get one now lol

frag tanks tend to grow... rather fast...


as for flow and light

i should be able to get the whole tank moving using a single 3000 gph pump and using a single race way system

once water starts moving it tends to keep going. that coupled with eductors.

as for light

t'5s lots and lots of them!
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