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So, been busy again. I have, built a bench top for the room, patched the holes made by my failed rodi barrel above the tank attempt, painted said holes, made a wheeled dolly for the bottom saltwater barrel for easy moving, installed the polywall around the tank opening, caulked the polywall and the trim around the tank opening, and cleaned up the room, dining room, and my tools.
Remaining is pretty much just caulking and painting the trim around all three areas, installing the tank, installing/caulking/painting trim around the display faces of the tank, and building a scaffold above the sump to stand on during tank maintenance - in that order. After that it's pretty much all aquarium setup and maintenance. I can't believe how much work this has all been. These aren't, quite, "after" pics - but they're pretty damn close. Anyway, on to the pics. 20160116_225217[1]small.jpg 20160117_200410]small.jpg 20160117_200425]small.jpg 20160117_200447]small.jpg 20160117_200508]small.jpg |
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Wow awesome job!
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I know now that Lowe's and home depot both do, and Menards does not.
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Well, all of the caulking is done. No trim painted yet. Also finished cleaning, bleaching, and rinsing the hell out of the 75g sump tank and the 20g qt. The other 20g I have leaks, but I talked to the guy I got it from and he says he'll swap me out with another one, so that's cool. Only thing is, it's drilled, so I'll have to cut a patch and silicone it on to cover the hole. Oh well, it'll only be a qt/ht - I doubt the fish care about aesthetics.
Tomorrow is SUPPOSED to be the big move day, and wouldn't you know it? A freaking blizzard. I say again, a freaking blizzard is supposed to begin tomorrow at like noon. Seriously? |
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75 and sunny here in PHX...bwhahhahhaaaahhahahhahhahahah
sorry, had to, I'm from Michigan originally. Love doing that when people talk about snow.
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Sir, you suck.
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The "blizzard" actually started at like 6 a.m., but the worst is south of us. We got mostly wind and only about 2 inches. I've been keeping the walks clear and only one guy has cancelled on me. Looks like everyone else is still down to ride, so we might just get this thing done anyway. Screw you weather!
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I scoff at your blizzard! Scoff, scoff, scoff!
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Have you ever seen anything more wonderful? Ok, well, maybe you have. But after the waiting I've done for this moment it's pretty damn wonderful to me. So now all is said and done, I see what I hath wroth. The good. The stand size is perfect, the stand lines up perfectly square along the base of the tank, the tank fits perfectly into the opening with about 1/2" play on either end and 1/8" play across the top, the tank appears to be perfectly level all around with no gaps anywhere along the base, and the overflow opening lines up perfectly with the hole in the stand top. Now the bad. There really is only one thing that went wrong somewhere along the way. I'm not sure at what point I messed up, but luckily it's only aesthetic and not functional. I lay bare my sins: See how the bottom lines up perfectly along the stand top? 20160122_211221small.jpg Well, take a look at how the top of the tank lines up with the bottom of the top of the opening. 20160122_211227small.jpg Yes, that happened. The dining room side is a little off, maybe 1/8"at the corner point tapering to 0" at the wall side, but this is probably closer to 5/8"at the corner point - tapering off to 0" on the wall side. Perfection would have been lovely, but I guess I'll just have to settle for wondrous. I guess I'll have to fix it the best I can with trim and caulk and a little TLC, lol. |
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Did you opt for the weather dry wall? Are you concerned with mold on your walls being that close to the tank opening?
Good job getting that in. I'm sure you had a nice blizzard party right after! |
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I used poly wall on the inside of the actual opening itself, with composite trim on the inside wall, caulked seams between them. I also installed the humidistat and ceiling fan to control the humidity in the room.
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So now I'm closing in on the finish line. Tank's in and trimmed. Built the scaffold, as well as a hinged landing down the side of the tank, bought some eggcrate, painted some of the polywall blue for use as the tank backing, built trim for that to slide in, cleaned the skimmer, cut a baffle and am waiting for 3 more, , siliconed the overflow cover into place, and painted the sides and back of one of the qt's.
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Update time!
Holy crap is it a tight fit under there. Today I ran the plumbing for the return and the drains. I wanted to use 45's for the drains, but I didn't have enough height for them so I ended up having to use 90's. I was able to use 45's for the return. It was almost directly underneath the bulkhead, so it almost completely ended up being a stack of fittings with very little actual pipe. I also got me apex mounted and connected to Fusion. I still have no clue what I'm looking at on my laptop screen though. I'll be learning that soon enough. The return into the tank is almost invisible in the pics. I used glossy black Krylon Fusion to match the acrylic overflow cover, and boy did it work. I'm going to let it sit for a week now to let the silicone, pvc cement, and spray paint cure and outgas or whatever it does before I put water in, so hopefully by the end of next weekend there will be water flowing and salt mixing! Anyway, here are some pics. 20160201_213307small.jpg 20160201_213324small.jpg 20160201_213344small.jpg 20160201_213401small.jpg 20160201_213412small.jpg I gotta couple more pics I'll put into the next post. |
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Here's the building and then completion of the sump.
20160130_105036small.jpg 20160131_204929small.jpg Here's the return line with the T and ball valve to control the flow to the fuge. Also shows the fuge light. 20160201_215532small.jpg Here's the bulkheads. Like I said, ridiculously tight fit. That's what I get for using a 75 for my sump/fuge, lol. I hated to do it, but I ended up having to silicone the bulkheads in place. I tried 6 different times to get them to seal. Pull them off, clean everything, try again. No matter what I did they kept leaking. (I poured a solo cup of water into the bottom of the overflow each time - just enough to be above the level of the gasket, but not enough to actually start running out of the overflow hole.) 20160201_215541small.jpg |
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Very nice. Very tight fit indeed but it will work
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wow very impressive build
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Thank you :-)
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