240 Gallon Build thread

[714car11]

Yes that's all acrylic.

That looks dope man! Whole thing is acrylic?

 

[fattubwhale]

I have a 75g sump w/ 3 baffles on my 250g and it works great... and still have plenty of room to work with. My tank has a coast to coast weir and drains to to the right with 2-2" drains with a 1" return connected to a tee to 2 loclines. 1st baffle holds the mechanical and the bio, middle hold my heaters and last has my MaxFlo 2900
Guess it comes down to your plumbing and lay out

Cheers

For the size of sump max I can have so I can still have some wiggle room to adjust ect.. Is

39" L X 22" W X 18-20" H

 

[M@T!@$]

I have a 75g sump w/ 3 baffles on my 250g and it works great... and still have plenty of room to work with. My tank has a coast to coast weir and drains to to the right with 2-2" drains with a 1" return connected to a tee to 2 loclines. 1st baffle holds the mechanical and the bio, middle hold my heaters and last has my MaxFlo 2900
Guess it comes down to your plumbing and lay out

Cheers

Yeah my over flow will be just 2 1" or 5/8" bulkheads, with the strainer thing they come with, return is 1" probably. I'll look around on a local forum/ Craigslist for some ready sumps, if I can find them I'll look for a cheap tank and go from there

 

[fattubwhale]

when your looking they will never be available till your all set up and running lol... I'm sure you'll come across something that works.

Yeah my over flow will be just 2 1" or 5/8" bulkheads, with the strainer thing they come with, return is 1" probably. I'll look around on a local forum/ Craigslist for some ready sumps, if I can find them I'll look for a cheap tank and go from there

 

[M@T!@$]

when your looking they will never be available till your all set up and running lol... I'm sure you'll come across something that works.

haha that always happens to me. Bought my old 200 gallon and boom a much larger tank popped up for sale haha.

In sure I'll fine some ready sump or 40-60 gallon for a good price

 

[M@T!@$]

Started cycling some media tonight. Took the 3 trays of bio from the fx6, bagged it up and placed it in the pond. Tank will take about 2-3 more weeks to complete, so it'll have some jump start. Plan for the pond also is to upgrade filter, and summer rolls around have some feeder guppies breed

 

[M@T!@$]

Nothing new done. May start cleaning out the spot the tank is going jn and put the stand their today. Also will be going into the crawl space to see if the floor needs to be reinforced

 

[M@T!@$]

Still no progress, it's been raining 4-5 days in a row, waiting for some sun so I can wrap the stand in plywood, cut out the doors ect.. And clean out the spot. Drill the extra holes on the tank and I still need like 3 more bulkheads. Last but not least, pain the back of the tank black

 

[M@T!@$]

Started cleaning out the space for the tank. Hopefully by tomorrow I can have the stand in the house.

Now I have a question. Filtration will be fx6, 2 aquatop cf500uv on one side. Other side I want to do sump. My dimensions for max sump sizes are- option one- 39" X 21" X 18" or 42" X 18" X 18".

Now for the intake outtake.. I was thinking 2 1" bulkheads for intake, 1 inch for output, how many gph can that handle? I want to have my heaters in the sump so I guess it needs to be pretty high gph to keep tank warm? I guess I can add one inline heater?

 

[Thomas18]

To find the flow that you want look at this thread:

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/pipe-sizing-charts-and-flow-rates.205645/

I hope that this helps
Thomas