Looking forward to see it!

So wait, didn't you have water and livestock in the tank? what happened?

Nice build looking forward to the finished product

Updates?

If it were up to him he would be in build limbo for the rest of his life. Thankfully his better half demands order in the living quarters.

maybe i can get a 1000g tank up and running with frags grown to colonies before you can get your plumbing done ;) take your time, its worth it in the long run.

There has been great progress... I have put in about 60hrs and taken many photos... I'm waiting till it's complete to post.... :)

The tank is empty, livestock is on my floor in a 120g I bought... Water changes are keeping it alive...

The walls are mostly repaired... Will be done this weekend...

The tank is clean..

The new plumbing is complete... Including a pretty cool video of the flow testing we did with frozen corn.. :)

The plumbing is currently on the wood platform and three rounds of cement have been applied, probably three more are required before I'm happy...

I've got some travel for the next week or so that is causing a huge delay... I need about three days more to complete... It will take 12 calendar days to get those three....

I am VERY happy... And please take time to check out www.reefwholesale.com who is a sponsor here and also responsible for the awesomeness of the rebuild. Their work and experience made this better than I could ever do.

Would love to see the flow test video !

me too. I haven't pulled it off camera yet... I hope it is as goods the real thing.

Awesome build! Subscribed.

-Chris

this is one killer inwall.. never thought about doing it this way.. tagging along for sure

Thank you. :wavehand:

It was something that I had never seen before either, however I'm very confident it has been done 1000 times before.

I can say that the hidden plumbing and holes in the bottom of the tank was far more ambitious than I had ever imagined.

Thanks for joining the build...

build is looking good!

is that 72x24x24?

Almost, When I custom ordered I found I could squeeze an extra 1.75inches in width... So it is a 72 long by 24 high by 25.75 wide... Just to be different..

Folks here is a major update. I have a few photos (64) to post.... so buckle up and here we goooooo...
There are 65 photos and one video. Sorry, Pat (Redbelly) has the video on his camera, so it cannot be posted... I can show bags of corn.

Might as well get started.

The emptying of the display into a 120gallon that lived on the floor for the 5 weeks.
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Dis-assembly of the old plumbing that was the root of the problem.

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The "problem area" under the display where a new hole needs to go... the freezer needs to move and the air exchanger needs to be re-located... (sorry for the rotated photo)

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A hole will appear here... 14" by 4" The largest "standard" floor vent cover size available...
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And some plumbing parts... this accounted for about 25% of the parts purchased and about 40% of the parts used... I have an amazing collection of 1" - 0.5" fittings left over (for sale too btw).
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installation of the closed loop pumps under the floor to hide the noise (insulation still needs to be added to get even lower noise levels, but this isn't bad.

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The tank gets some drywall and clean up on this side (dining room)

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Now the fun can begin... internal flow/plumbing. Getting this done was no easy ticket. Having loads of parts on-hand was the key to creativity IMO... being able to reach for just about any part and fitting worked very well... in the end I'd say this took upwards of 16 hours to get completed.
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This is under the tank, it's upside down (sorry)
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Flow lines were drawn and alignment lines were added so that we could glue things into the correct final positions.
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The Closed Loop input screens were created by gluing two screens together and cutting a hole in the top of one (or bottom depending on your point of view) so that it could thread onto a fitting.
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Some more photos of the plumbing.
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Random
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More plumbing
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Some more photos of the plumbing.
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Random
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More plumbing
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As you can see we are filling the tank to do a series of flow tests. The goal was to ensure that once we encased the pipes in cement that the flow was already "ideal" or as close as possible. So we filled er up and turned on the closed loop pumps.... Now all that was needed was a way to see the flow...

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Yes, frozen corn. Almost nutrally boyant, but slight tendancy to sink... So in goes a bag and on go the pumps... and we are in a corn-storm!

(VIDEO OF THIS CORN-AWESOME AS SOON AS I CAN GET THEM OFF MY BUDDIES VIDEO CAMERA)