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It doesn't show too much but I made a lot of progress last night. I got the top oak pieces waterproofed on the undersides. 8 of 10 bags of sand are in (i'm not sure if I need the other two as I have approx 4" of sand all around. I'm waiting on the tank to settle a bit first). and then I got the sump box in place. I needed two more plastic containers that I picked up today on lunch.

Here's the tank as it sits currently.

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So got home last night and checked on things... Sump had a slow but steady leak. The bottom of the sump was completely soaked so I drained it all out and took it outside for inspection. I found what I think and hope is the only leak

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If you look at the right most hole you'll see it's damp and thats the only place I could find that was definitely dripping down to the bottom of the sump. I sanded with 60 grit on the line that those holes made (previous design of the sump baffles that I threw out) and siliconed the #%$& outta it. It's not pretty but I'm confident that I got that particular issue under control.

I had to give it 24 hours so I figured I'd get my UGJ's pump installed. I teflon taped the connectors and started to assemble. The return connection worked well but when I was tightening, by hand mind you, the intake connection I split the impeller cover. Luckily I'm using the same pump for the sump return and I can just swap pumps but I was seriously angered for a min!! In my opinion I shouldn't be able to break the cover when I'm tightening by hand. Frustrating night but I think all in all things are still going quite well and I should be done and cycling tonight. I put a decent piece of foam my current 135 to jump start the cycle. I'll likely also throw in the foam from my 2 HOB filters in that same tank to help out.
 
So I have it Built already (no photo's yet) but here is the Sump Design.

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This all sits inside the Sump Box that I was working on last night... I think it's self explanatory but questions or comments as always are welcome
 
Sub'd. Good Luck with this Mega Project.
Any luck with that leak?
 
Yeah the Leak is now fixed and the tank has been running for about 1 week. I've been busy outside of the house since we have had some decent weather finally. I'm hoping to snap some photo's of things tonight to bring this thread up to date. I have some tuning to do on the tank still but it is fully functional at this point and there is an oscar that was in a little 10g grow out that is now in the 310. He's being terribly shy but seems to be healthy enough.
 
Tank has been running for 2 weeks now and no leaks!! Sump leak repaired and it's running really well I'm very happy with that part of the project. The Pump cover came in yesterday and I got the undergravel jets started up last night. I almost all the fish that will be in this tank two days ago. Everyone is looking pretty happy but I need to get my hands on some rocks and territory as everyone looks to be a bit out of place with no where to just hang out.

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Today I got 1100 pounds of rock :-)
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View from my Couch
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And a couple of the fish currently in the tank (Arowana jumped while I was putting rock in.. seems fine now)
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