Ghetto Rig - Page 2

GROWSZOAS · 04/25/2009, 01:19 AM

coat hanger center brace

username in use · 04/25/2009, 06:57 AM

That looks like it may not be your first coat hanger center brace.

hobogato · 04/25/2009, 07:56 AM

pvc carbon/phosban reactor. a circle of acrylic, hosebarb, three caps and a short piece of pipe. i used 4" diameter pvc.

parts

acrylic disk with holes superglued to bottom of pipe

assembled - obviously for in-sump use only - water just pours out the top and down the sides. i ran it with a mj 900.

jbird69 · 04/25/2009, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hobogato
pvc carbon/phosban reactor. a circle of acrylic, hosebarb, three caps and a short piece of pipe. i used 4" diameter pvc.

parts

acrylic disk with holes superglued to bottom of pipe

assembled - obviously for in-sump use only - water just pours out the top and down the sides. i ran it with a mj 900.

Do you have carbon and phosban together in there? Where is the peice with the holy acrylic disc on the assembled unit?
Just looking at what you did here is openning a new door in my brain!
This is a hot DIY!

Discustopia · 04/25/2009, 09:55 AM

Ok, the coat hanger brace is just plain scary!
hopefully it's nothing more than a sump filled halfway now.

I am totaly digging that GFO reactor, Fantastically simple, just a little work drilling the holes.

Here's my lighting upgrade I did for a buddy - Literally by hand.
I smacked the hammertone over the edge of a board from a wooden pallet with the base of my hand. Only tools were tin snips, a drill, and a hand riveter.

jbird69 · 04/25/2009, 09:57 AM

ok. I see it now. Its on the bottom of the pipe (just like you spelled out LOL.) so the media is fully contained within the pipe and remaines susupended above the hosebarb. Sweet

hobogato · 04/25/2009, 10:05 AM

you can run both, but the carbon is exhausted much sooner than the phosban. you could probably do another acrylic disk that fits into the pipe to separate them and put the carbon in the top so it could be changed more often than the gfo. i only run carbon now and have since made a completely acrylic one (like these) that doesnt have to be in the sump

here is a small single beckett skimmer i made with some scraps i had lying around

jbird69 · 04/25/2009, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hobogato
you can run both, but the carbon is exhausted much sooner than the phosban. you could probably do another acrylic disk that fits into the pipe to separate them and put the carbon in the top so it could be changed more often than the gfo. i only run carbon now and have since made a completely acrylic one (like these) that doesnt have to be in the sump

here is a small single beckett skimmer i made with some scraps i had lying around

Okay. You must now remove yourself from the ghetto category

Verry nice! Awesome stained glass btw.

jbird69 · 04/25/2009, 11:33 AM

one more Q... Are you buying the acrylic cylinders or making them?

username in use · 04/25/2009, 12:45 PM

i like the DIY reactor, very good idea, I may have to make a couple of these myself, as for the skimmer, that is way to nice to have in this thread.

Agu · 04/25/2009, 08:21 PM

Water bottle skimmer for a nano tank,

A couple days worth of skimmate,

Neptangelo · 04/25/2009, 10:55 PM

Now that is truly ghetto! Well done......

exoticaquatix · 04/25/2009, 11:53 PM

awesome gear guys! makes me think back to the DIY kalk reactor that nuked my tank

hobogato, im afraid you dont quite get the idea of this thread. haha

-nick

stripevt · 04/26/2009, 04:54 PM

There has to be more out there.... This makes me feel not so bad with the stuff I have done. ha

yukonblizzard · 04/26/2009, 07:31 PM

Great Ghetto Rigs everybody!!

Here is my ghetto rig: A fifty gallon Frag tub with a old bucket as a surge device

The surge in action. It goes off every 25 seconds.

Inside the surge bucket: I used a toilet ball float to pull the flap once the water reaches a certain height.

airdog67 · 04/26/2009, 08:28 PM

Heres mine, its a temp cage to see if my tang was the cause of clam staying closed, he was.

airdog67 · 04/26/2009, 08:29 PM

Looking at my picture, my camera is pretty ghetto as well

stugray · 04/26/2009, 10:24 PM

yukonblizzard,

That pic cracks me up!

The surge bucket is nowhere near as ghetto as the 10 gallon fuge tank sitting on the ( rolling ) PVC pipes!

You might be in the lead so far.

Oops I dropped my beer..... bend over to catch it, and bump my butt on the fuge and it rolled into the Sump! - DOH ;-)

Stu

yukonblizzard · 04/27/2009, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by stugray
yukonblizzard,

Oops I dropped my beer..... bend over to catch it, and bump my butt on the fuge and it rolled into the Sump! - DOH ;-)

Stu

LOL, the pvc is drilled down so it can roll.

rguyler · 04/27/2009, 06:07 AM

Oh, I don't know...Agu's dual water bottle skimmer is pretty darn ghetto as well. He made it with scraps out of the trash can and it even pulls out a bit of nog by the looks of it. ;-)

username in use · 04/27/2009, 10:53 AM

I think RC should start a "ghetto Rig of the Month" or "GROTM", I think it will be a highly contested award haha.

jbird69 · 04/28/2009, 06:08 PM

bumpideebumpbump.

I was really hoping this thread would stay alive a bit longer

Plankt0s · 04/28/2009, 10:03 PM

The thing is that alot of us dont take pictures of our ghetto devices due to the fact that most of them are just built because you get a crazy idea and then start prototyping then rebuild it properly. Man that was a long sentence. I love the idea of this thread... Maybe I will be able to find some of my ghetto inventions.

I love the hanger center brace, especially because you can see where it ripped out once already.

fishoutawater · 04/28/2009, 10:22 PM

Getto skimmer, in a getto sump, coming soon,... getto carbon reactor and kalk reactor. And yes, I'm stealing them from this thread.

GROWSZOAS · 04/28/2009, 10:26 PM

Thats my ghetto center brace, yeah the first hole i drilled was to close to the edge. Someone said they hope thats its on a sump thats half full, now what fun would that be. Its on my 65 display!!!

04/25/2009, 06:57 AM	#27
username in use Azog the Hugger Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: East Hampton, Long Island Posts: 5,458	That looks like it may not be your first coat hanger center brace. __________________ Joshua BrianD - "UIU asked the questions Brian was pondering" Wolverine - "Sorry, Joshua's right" Current Tank Info: 75g in wall in early stages of build

04/25/2009, 07:56 AM	#28
hobogato Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: SanAntonio, TX Posts: 1,349	pvc carbon/phosban reactor. a circle of acrylic, hosebarb, three caps and a short piece of pipe. i used 4" diameter pvc. parts acrylic disk with holes superglued to bottom of pipe assembled - obviously for in-sump use only - water just pours out the top and down the sides. i ran it with a mj 900. __________________ ace Current Tank Info: 250 gallon solar reef

04/25/2009, 09:57 AM	#31
jbird69 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: The beautiful State of Jefferson Posts: 2,752	ok. I see it now. Its on the bottom of the pipe (just like you spelled out LOL.) so the media is fully contained within the pipe and remaines susupended above the hosebarb. Sweet __________________ Broke Back Mountain is not a movie, its the pile of dead ninjas in Chuck Norris' back yard

04/25/2009, 10:05 AM	#32
hobogato Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: SanAntonio, TX Posts: 1,349	you can run both, but the carbon is exhausted much sooner than the phosban. you could probably do another acrylic disk that fits into the pipe to separate them and put the carbon in the top so it could be changed more often than the gfo. i only run carbon now and have since made a completely acrylic one (like these) that doesnt have to be in the sump here is a small single beckett skimmer i made with some scraps i had lying around __________________ ace Current Tank Info: 250 gallon solar reef

04/25/2009, 11:33 AM	#34
jbird69 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: The beautiful State of Jefferson Posts: 2,752	one more Q... Are you buying the acrylic cylinders or making them? __________________ Broke Back Mountain is not a movie, its the pile of dead ninjas in Chuck Norris' back yard

04/25/2009, 01:19 AM	#26
GROWSZOAS Registered Member. Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 895	coat hanger center brace

04/25/2009, 09:55 AM	#30
Discustopia Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Cambridge, ON Canada Posts: 207	Ok, the coat hanger brace is just plain scary! hopefully it's nothing more than a sump filled halfway now. I am totaly digging that GFO reactor, Fantastically simple, just a little work drilling the holes. Here's my lighting upgrade I did for a buddy - Literally by hand. I smacked the hammertone over the edge of a board from a wooden pallet with the base of my hand. Only tools were tin snips, a drill, and a hand riveter.

04/25/2009, 12:45 PM	#35
username in use Azog the Hugger Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: East Hampton, Long Island Posts: 5,458	i like the DIY reactor, very good idea, I may have to make a couple of these myself, as for the skimmer, that is way to nice to have in this thread. __________________ Joshua BrianD - "UIU asked the questions Brian was pondering" Wolverine - "Sorry, Joshua's right" Current Tank Info: 75g in wall in early stages of build

04/25/2009, 08:21 PM	#36
Agu RC Mod Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Venice, Florida Posts: 30,275	Water bottle skimmer for a nano tank, A couple days worth of skimmate, __________________ Less technology , more biology . Current Tank Info: 30 gallon half cube and 5.5, both reef tanks

04/25/2009, 10:55 PM	#37
Neptangelo Moved On Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 55	Now that is truly ghetto! Well done......

04/25/2009, 11:53 PM	#38
exoticaquatix Registered Member. Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: baltimore, MD Posts: 544	awesome gear guys! makes me think back to the DIY kalk reactor that nuked my tank hobogato, im afraid you dont quite get the idea of this thread. haha -nick __________________ This dude either has two glass eyes or he's wearing his patch on the wrong sa-sa-sa-side. -Aesop Current Tank Info: 120gal 500w MH 10K XMs 30g sump, MSX-200 skimmer, vortech MP40w and Tunze nanostreams; 9 gal, 29gal FW planted tanks

04/26/2009, 04:54 PM	#39
stripevt Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: blacksburg Posts: 282	There has to be more out there.... This makes me feel not so bad with the stuff I have done. ha __________________ Shawn "who ever said nothing is impossible, has never tried to slam a revolving door now have they" unknown Current Tank Info: 40B and 20 sump.

04/26/2009, 07:31 PM	#40
yukonblizzard Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: MI Posts: 1,075	Great Ghetto Rigs everybody!! Here is my ghetto rig: A fifty gallon Frag tub with a old bucket as a surge device The surge in action. It goes off every 25 seconds. Inside the surge bucket: I used a toilet ball float to pull the flap once the water reaches a certain height. __________________ ~Alex CLICK ON MY HOME PAGE FOR MY 600 GALLON SHARK/RAY REEF BUILD! Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

04/26/2009, 08:28 PM	#41
airdog67 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Earth, I think Posts: 234	Heres mine, its a temp cage to see if my tang was the cause of clam staying closed, he was.

04/26/2009, 08:29 PM	#42
airdog67 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Earth, I think Posts: 234	Looking at my picture, my camera is pretty ghetto as well

04/26/2009, 10:24 PM	#43
stugray Premium Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Longmont, Co Posts: 4,567	yukonblizzard, That pic cracks me up! The surge bucket is nowhere near as ghetto as the 10 gallon fuge tank sitting on the ( rolling ) PVC pipes! You might be in the lead so far. Oops I dropped my beer..... bend over to catch it, and bump my butt on the fuge and it rolled into the Sump! - DOH ;-) Stu __________________ Some people think that I have Attention Deficit Disorder. They just dont understand that........ Hey! Look a chicken! Well, We KNOW GOD exists, but for US to exist without a GOD is preposterous….Umm wait a minute…. Sounds a bit circular to me… Current Tank Info: 125 Gal. display w/80 gal mud/caulerpa sump. Basement sump w/ LED Grow Light,Gravity fed Reeflo200 skimmer w/ ORCA Recirc, DIY calc reactor & kalk stirrer. Inline plumbed 75 Gal frag/settling tank.

04/27/2009, 06:07 AM	#45
rguyler Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dayton, OH Posts: 607	Oh, I don't know...Agu's dual water bottle skimmer is pretty darn ghetto as well. He made it with scraps out of the trash can and it even pulls out a bit of nog by the looks of it. ;-) __________________ -- Rik Current Tank Info: 150g FOWLR Display/90g FO (soon to be reef) Display, 100g basement Rubbermaid sump, MSX300A, Reeflo Blackfin, Vertex N/P, MH-14K lighting (soon to be LED)

04/27/2009, 10:53 AM	#46
username in use Azog the Hugger Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: East Hampton, Long Island Posts: 5,458	I think RC should start a "ghetto Rig of the Month" or "GROTM", I think it will be a highly contested award haha. __________________ Joshua BrianD - "UIU asked the questions Brian was pondering" Wolverine - "Sorry, Joshua's right" Current Tank Info: 75g in wall in early stages of build

04/28/2009, 06:08 PM	#47
jbird69 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: The beautiful State of Jefferson Posts: 2,752	bumpideebumpbump. I was really hoping this thread would stay alive a bit longer __________________ Broke Back Mountain is not a movie, its the pile of dead ninjas in Chuck Norris' back yard

04/28/2009, 10:03 PM	#48
Plankt0s Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Formerly Krypton Posts: 825	The thing is that alot of us dont take pictures of our ghetto devices due to the fact that most of them are just built because you get a crazy idea and then start prototyping then rebuild it properly. Man that was a long sentence. I love the idea of this thread... Maybe I will be able to find some of my ghetto inventions. I love the hanger center brace, especially because you can see where it ripped out once already. __________________ Doing my part by building 6-7 new inland reefs a month (and growing).

04/28/2009, 10:22 PM	#49
fishoutawater Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: salt lake city, ut Posts: 586	Getto skimmer, in a getto sump, coming soon,... getto carbon reactor and kalk reactor. And yes, I'm stealing them from this thread.

04/28/2009, 10:26 PM	#50
GROWSZOAS Registered Member. Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 895	Thats my ghetto center brace, yeah the first hole i drilled was to close to the edge. Someone said they hope thats its on a sump thats half full, now what fun would that be. Its on my 65 display!!!