12 Foot Monster Acrylic Setup

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Back of the exchanger with the overflow headed to the floor drain. With 40 gpd it's just a trickle. The bucket stays at about 76 degrees.

About 8' later the 1/2" flex dumps into a floor drain with the other tank and some random furnace drains.

 
Nice, good way to capture what would be waste heat. I have had similar ideas but for chilling instead to keep natives but then read the regs up here and became sad
 
jandb said:
I thought about using something like copper because it's a better heat exchanger but this was cheap and easy to work with...
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DO NOT USE COPPER! It would be a more efficient heat exchange, but it will also kill your fish, I promise... It will take time, but copper bioaccumulates and will eventually kill your fish, even at the slow rate it is leached from the tubing.
 
jandb said:
I wanted to cut back on maintanance and had heard good things about The Filter Guys on the forum. I called Jim and he made getting a drip system real easy. I initially purchased the Carbon Drip 40 gpd. I've since added the drip to my 340 gallon so I added an 80 gpd regulator and split the drip into each sump.
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love the build! great idea on the heat exchanger. personally i just mix hot/cold in my drip, but next time around i may try something like that out.

wondering where you got the regulator from, i've been looking...
 
appak said:
love the build! great idea on the heat exchanger. personally i just mix hot/cold in my drip, but next time around i may try something like that out.

wondering where you got the regulator from, i've been looking...
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Hi Appak, thanks for the comments. I got the regulator and drip emitters from Jim at The Filter Guys. He was very easy to work with and helpful with all the questions I had.
 
Floating the driftwood and starting to arrange and rearrange the rocks. The large root sunk in about a day. One of the long ones took a week and I had to weigh the others down for over a month.
 
looks nice so far. im watching this part very closely, looking for ideas on how to scape large tanks. there's more to it than just use bigger driftwood.
 
ragin_cajun said:
looks nice so far. im watching this part very closely, looking for ideas on how to scape large tanks. there's more to it than just use bigger driftwood.
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Thanks. You're definitely right on that one. I figured I'd throw a bunch of rock and wood in there and be done. It looked off and lopsided the first try to say the least. I also don't have an eye for this sort of thing.
 
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