Ghetto Rig

[Neptangelo]

Dave.....

[username in use]

I actually just built the bucket skimmer chamber yesterday, thats why the room looks like a disaster, it was the second chamber I made in 3 days, so i never cleaned up the first mess before making the second, you know how it is. I gotta say though, after only one day my skimmer is already working better than it did before. I definitely got the inspiration to build my own from this thread. I almost bought a chambered sump, but all of them were too long, you can see I have space restrictions, and my current sump is a 20high, which is too deep for the skimmer. Anyways, thanks for the top 3 vote, and the pizza box comment made me laugh out loud.

[Beaun]

Originally posted by username in use
I actually just built the bucket skimmer chamber yesterday, thats why the room looks like a disaster, it was the second chamber I made in 3 days, so i never cleaned up the first mess before making the second, you know how it is.

Sure, we believe you...

[jbird69]

Originally posted by DaveG99
that wave box wont accomplish what a tunze wave box does. The tunze wave boxes make the water in the entire tank shift back and forth. That wave device just dumps water in the tank. Totally different concept.

This is a Ghetto thread Tunze wave makers arent allowed in this thread, Unless you do something really weird to one

A quick comment on the concept... If you suddenly dump a mass of water into a tank that is allready ripping with lots of flow, your gonna get a sudden chaotic flow that can only benefit corals. And it will absolutely send a surge across the tank and rebound back again.

Can you imagine how easy and effective something like this can be on a big frag tank? On a larger scale of coarse. I was thinking of a dumpbucket that pours into a raceway and makes a longer, slower, more latteral spill into the tank...cheap and effective.

[username in use]

yeah, the surge is a great tool for stirring up dead zones. At Atalantis Marine World, they have a 20k gallon reef, which utilizes a 500gallon surge every three minutes, and you can definitly see it reach all the low and tucked away corners of the tank. I am more in favor of a surge devise than a wavebox.

[stugray]

jbird69,

"Can you imagine how easy and effective something like this can be on a big frag tank?"

My LFS has exactly that.

they have fiberglass frag tanks that are ~12 feet long, 3 feet wide, & ~12" deep.

On one end they have two large acrylic tanks ~4 feet tall & maybe 18" X 18".
A pump fills these tanks up from the frag tanks.
Inside they have standard toilet flapper valves.
Tied to the valve is a 2 liter coke bottle on a short string.

The tank fills up, the bottle floats & eventually pulls the flapper valve open dumping the tanks contents into the frag tank.
Then the whole cycle starts over.
Elegant & Ghetto all in one ( Is that an oxymoron? ).

Stu

[Neptangelo]

I went ahead and got an over the tank shot of my skimmer bucket/return sump area..... It has been doing the job for about two years now. It bridges the gap between my 29g. display and all the "stuff" in the closet behind it.

[Neptangelo]

This is all I'v got... $10 dollar return overflow made from two specimen containers and a chunk of three quarter inch tubing.

[username in use]

nice to see someone else rockin the bucket. A truly underlutilized piece of equipment.

[Dante_JoseCuerv]

Originally posted by username in use
nice to see someone else rockin the bucket. A truly underlutilized piece of equipment.

So true. A very versatile piece of equipment indeed. You can use it to transport potatoes, or live rock. Or even turn it into a skimmer. Heck, if you want to you can use a bunch of them to make your own mock gundam

[Rhodes19]

Originally posted by stugray
This is pretty ghetto:



Stu

Stugray,

Cool skimmer! How did you make it and what size tank do you have it on?

Chris

[stugray]

Rhodes19

Here's the link to the new & improved version with the Orca.
The one in the pic above is the older one driven with a Mag12 & a beckett.
In this link, you can find the link to the 1st generation one too:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...hreadid=1386605

Stu

[newtophish]

This is an absolute blast! I don't have any pics of my Ghetto rigs. I have not figured out how to Ghetto a camera yet!

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Originally posted by DaveG99
that wave box wont accomplish what a tunze wave box does. The tunze wave boxes make the water in the entire tank shift back and forth. That wave device just dumps water in the tank. Totally different concept.

Not sure why you made this comment, but for the record, I am intimately familiar with Tunze waveboxes, I understand the difference between a surge like this and what they do, and I don't want what they do.

[Rhodes19]

Originally posted by stugray
Rhodes19

Here's the link to the new & improved version with the Orca.
The one in the pic above is the older one driven with a Mag12 & a beckett.
In this link, you can find the link to the 1st generation one too:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...hreadid=1386605

Stu

Hi Stu,

Thanks for the link. Is it supposed to go to the archives? If so, what year and what week should I look at. Thanks.

Chris

[stugray]

Strange.....

I'll try again:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1386605

If that does not work, it was in the DIY under May 08.

Stu

[Beaun]

Originally posted by stugray
Strange.....

I'll try again:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1386605

If that does not work, it was in the DIY under May 08.

Stu

It works, thanks, very cool build.

[Plankt0s]

This is not mine and I did not make these. I found this picture on the first page of the link that Stu provided above, the inventor is dew2loud1. I just thought that these deserved to be shown here in this thread.


[IMG]http://i37.*******.com/wi20w1.jpg[/IMG]

[der_wille_zur_macht]

A classic photo. There are so many things awesome about it. If the concept of ghetto reefkeeping were to have an iconic photo, that would have to be it.

[SmknReefer]

Okay, I think its high time to get some chick action.... I would like for you to pay close attention to a couple of things here.

1. Notice My nifty way of getting my precycled salt mix into the tanks.

2. I had some really nice support with the 2 x 4 stand, as in no actual support.

[jbird69]

Originally posted by SmknReefer
Okay, I think its high time to get some chick action.... I would like for you to pay close attention to a couple of things here.

1. Notice My nifty way of getting my precycled salt mix into the tanks.

2. I had some really nice support with the 2 x 4 stand, as in no actual support.

that stand is positively terrifying!

[Plankt0s]

what happened to the pix??? I wanna see

[jmking33]

Im going to the beach this weekend. May I borrow the noodle??

[ah30k]

Originally posted by biowerks
This is not mine and I did not make these. I found this picture on the first page of the link that Stu provided above,

Posting pics of someone else's work in the ghetto page is not cool. Had you read that thread you would have know there was a lot of sensitivity to people calling the person gheto and him not appreciating it very much.

You can only safely get away with calling your own work ghetto, not someone else's.

[drpo21]

love the noodle, that made me laugh. I agree with that stand being scary though