New tank arrived

[Zoodiver]

Sad to hear about Tenecor. I get such great service from them. Wonder what the difference is.

Hard lines are the way I like to run things on this scale, so switching is a smart move in my opinion. Looks like the sump is set up to gravity feed into the top, and then use pumps to draw out the other side. If you are going to have the other sump full of live rock, don't waste time with the small amount of bioballs you'd have in the acrylic sump. Not worth the hassle of it all.

Just a quick tip I've picked up on over the years, on the inside of the sump at the bulkheads feeding the pumps, toss on 90* fittings pointed down to the bottom. Less chance of pulling in air and cavitating the pumps.

 

[cohl120]

Zoodiver- Thanks, I will definetly add the 90* fittings to the bulkheads. As for the tenecor service, they delivered the tank and everything exactly as they were suppose to, so I have no complaints there. I have not tried to contact them yet, so hopefully i am able to get a hold of them easily, as for the tank itself, it looks perfect so hopefully there is no issues down the road. I am not upset with my service with tenecor, I just wish they would have put a little more effort into the filtration design. It's kind of a cheap setup considering the cost of the filtration kit in my opinion.

Jabba- I agree the reeflo pumps are definitely the way to go, When i said i wanted to upgrade, i mean to a bigger model of reeflo pump. When the tank was originally planned the sump was going to be on the same floor level as the tank itself. I have changed it to where the sump is now in my basement which creates about a 12 foot head pressure on my pumps. Tenecor sent me two reeflo dart pumps, and i think that the head pressure is too much for them. , also jabba what kind of turnover rate do you have for your tenecor tank? If I run the dart pumps it doesn't give me a very large turnover rate, and that kind of concerns me.

 

[cohl120]

I got the the old garage all gutted and the center wall torn down, now i just have to knock out a wall that goes into my old living room, at least it is some progress finally. here are a few pics of what the garage looks like now.

 

[MIDWESTFISHBULLIES]

omg

 

[gangster]

Awesome project! Id be goin crazy havn a tank like that sit all wrapped up....beggn to get unwrapped.

 

[cohl120]

picked up some items i ordered through my lfs the other day, this is just a start but i got 36 bags of agronite sand and 10 boxes of instant ocean 200 gal salt mix. It wasn't much fun to load, i put it all on a pallet when i got home though.

 

[Deano1956]

Whats your projected completion date?

 

[cohl120]

Whats your projected completion date?

sure wish i knew the exact answer to this, hopefully get to start putting it all together around the end of may when work starts to slow down a little.

 

[Deano1956]

If you need a hand let me know, I could come down for day, I think its about 2 hours from Morris.

 

[tyndall72]

I am pretty jealous of that tank.