I just saw this for the first time, i called my wife over, her words were "crazy crazy man, crazy" I concur you are a crazy man.
Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank
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Just finished readin' this thread. As soon as i get a house as my own, and i actually make some money (like that's gunnu happen) i might get a mini-mega tank...
peninha;559369; said:we dont know each other but u must be a mediumor something. you built my dream thank in yr home....
anyway i am very much interested in seeing upgrades on yr filtration and any other pics of your fish u wanna show.....i'll be watching....
thank u so much for sharing
Sorry for the huge delay in showing the filter upgrades.
I have finally got my new filter system up and running no problems for 3 months now so I can now show the upgrades.
I've added another intake which is in addition to the 4 drains I had originally. The intakes go to 6 blue bag filters where I use 600 milligram filtration bags. I also have a second bypass straight to the pump in case the bag filters get clogged. The bag filters each have 2 pressure guages (the normal swimming pool type and a differential pressure guage) I use the 660 bag filters because their main purpose is to catch larger objects like snails, small pieces of lava rock and any pool liner pieces.
The 3 hp pump then pushes the water through two 600 lb sand filters. Where I have upgraded the sand with multidensity material. The sand filters work well and the multidenisty material reduces chanelling. The returns from one filter then goes through an upgraded Rinnai tankless hot water heating system with an extra external heat exchanger which then returns the water to both of my large tanks (the 52k and the 15k). The 15k overflows into the 52k and has its own filtration system seperate from the one I am showing using a 2 hp pump and an additional 600 lb sand filter. I also have a picture of the new thermostat and heater switches. The thermostat will keep the heat to within one degree of my set. I keep the tank at about 78 degrees right now because of my baby Arapaimas. They are 40 inches now and will get to 50 inches in about 6 months. At that point I will reduce the tank temperature as they will slow down their growth rate to about one half inch a month from the present 2 inches a month they are growing now. (This is my rates of growth on previous pimas I have raised)
The return from the other filter goes through 4 10,000 in line Aquarium ionizers for molecular purification from Eco Aqualizer www.ecoaqualizer.com .
The system works well...........the fish are happy.........which makes me happy.
The pictures are not the greatest (I took them). However Neoprodigy has better pictures taken by my friend Wei Hing Lam and will show them in a new article very soon.
