oneoffcustom
10/11/2008, 12:54 AM
Hello,
My name is nick, i started a thread a few months back in this forum. When i first started salt water i was immediatly drawn to nano tanks. After many years of freshwater off and on, i began talking to my cousin about the possibilities of going into a salt water adventure. Some of you may have stumbled on his build thread for a in wall 250 gallon. My original idea was to do a tiny tank maybe an all inclusive but i never quite had the money all at once to buy, and was terribly scared that salt water let alone a reef tank would be possible for me. After several talks with my cousin he convinced me that a 10 gallon or lower would not be a good fit for me, so i gave up the idea. I later set up a 29 rushed the tank, got ich, treated with copper to display lost lots of money. This ended my salt career.So after about a month of playing around on here and reading i decided to go back to what originally attracted me in the first place a true nano. I ended up selecting a 2.5 gallon. I purchases about 5 lbs live rock 10 lbs of sand and began a non rushed approach.The tank actually did great for almost three months, my frags were growing coraline was comeing in nicely, then hurricane ike came took my power and killed my joy. Currently i now have two baby box turtles in the tank but just ordered the parts to get it up again. I currently have been working on aa 46 gallon bowfront that i drilled built rock wall and am cycling with a 29 gallon sump. I am going to tie the 2.5 into my sump and share the water volume. Now if you made it this far down here are my plans and where i could really use your help.
1. first i plan on drilling the bottom of the tank with two 3/4 double slip bulk heads. I then want to extend the drain and return to almost the top of the tank maybe about a 1/2 inch from the lip. On one side i will knotch the pvc to drain down to my sump, and on the return side come up 90 with a lockline fitting and nozzle.
now where i need help will be what type of return pump can i use. i do have handy a maxi-jet 1200 unused but not quite sure how to attach to it being i will be using 3/4 pvc, any help there would be great.
please help and tag along to give me some good pointers.
My name is nick, i started a thread a few months back in this forum. When i first started salt water i was immediatly drawn to nano tanks. After many years of freshwater off and on, i began talking to my cousin about the possibilities of going into a salt water adventure. Some of you may have stumbled on his build thread for a in wall 250 gallon. My original idea was to do a tiny tank maybe an all inclusive but i never quite had the money all at once to buy, and was terribly scared that salt water let alone a reef tank would be possible for me. After several talks with my cousin he convinced me that a 10 gallon or lower would not be a good fit for me, so i gave up the idea. I later set up a 29 rushed the tank, got ich, treated with copper to display lost lots of money. This ended my salt career.So after about a month of playing around on here and reading i decided to go back to what originally attracted me in the first place a true nano. I ended up selecting a 2.5 gallon. I purchases about 5 lbs live rock 10 lbs of sand and began a non rushed approach.The tank actually did great for almost three months, my frags were growing coraline was comeing in nicely, then hurricane ike came took my power and killed my joy. Currently i now have two baby box turtles in the tank but just ordered the parts to get it up again. I currently have been working on aa 46 gallon bowfront that i drilled built rock wall and am cycling with a 29 gallon sump. I am going to tie the 2.5 into my sump and share the water volume. Now if you made it this far down here are my plans and where i could really use your help.
1. first i plan on drilling the bottom of the tank with two 3/4 double slip bulk heads. I then want to extend the drain and return to almost the top of the tank maybe about a 1/2 inch from the lip. On one side i will knotch the pvc to drain down to my sump, and on the return side come up 90 with a lockline fitting and nozzle.
now where i need help will be what type of return pump can i use. i do have handy a maxi-jet 1200 unused but not quite sure how to attach to it being i will be using 3/4 pvc, any help there would be great.
please help and tag along to give me some good pointers.