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by **Thales** » May 17th, 2006, 12:28 am

Very nice Sanjay!
10" sand bed going in there? :wink:

by **GreshamH** » May 17th, 2006, 1:14 am

Yup, SouthDown, right

by **ANEMONEBUFF** » May 17th, 2006, 8:55 am

Holy crap!

that's all I can say!

Holy Crap!

by **bleedingthought** » May 17th, 2006, 7:16 pm

What are you putting in there? Kittens?

by **fyrefysh** » May 17th, 2006, 11:35 pm

Jeesh, that's almost big enough for a whale shark (if you fold it up really neatly)! :wink:

NICE setup, I'm jealous and that's for certain.

by **GratefulDiver** » May 18th, 2006, 9:32 am

WOW!

Did you have to put in the double doors on the outside just to get it in the basement to begin with?

by **das75** » May 18th, 2006, 10:23 am

When I started reading and seen that it was going in the basement had me wondering. See though, ya have to love those walkout basements.

by **Sanjay** » May 18th, 2006, 11:10 am

GratefulDiver wrote:8O

WOW!

Did you have to put in the double doors on the outside just to get it in the basement to begin with?

Yes, I removed the small 30" door and a window and replaced it with the double doors. All the things we do just for an aquarium.

sanjay.

by **GratefulDiver** » May 18th, 2006, 12:56 pm

Very nice! - I'm probably not quite as anxious as you, but will be sweet to see the finished product.. - Feel free to keep 'em coming...

by **Len** » July 27th, 2006, 7:33 pm

:twiddles his thumbs:

by **Louey** » July 27th, 2006, 7:35 pm

Len wrote:

:twiddles his thumbs:

Call him out Sanjay. We all got blisters twiddling our thumbs waiting for Len. We're still waiting....

Louey

by **Sanjay** » July 29th, 2006, 10:28 pm

Ok.. you can stop twidling now.. here are some update pics.

Well, between travel, work, geting the basement work finished, delays due to missing parts, wrong parts delivered etc.... things got really bogged down there for a while.

But, a lot of progress has been made this week, and things are moving along again.

Tank is basically full with water now... no water in the sump yet. Holding off on that till I get the circulation pumps. I got the closed loops almost plumbed. Fired the first one last night.. and ofcourse there was a slow leak at the pump. Took it all apart and found that the pump had basically shredded the teflon tape. redid it with the thicker pink tape and that seems to be fine now. this closed loop return is split into a sea swirl and a fixed return. The pump does hold quite a bit of water after the ball valves are closed off.. have to get better at catching the spill.

As you can see I also put in a tee with a ball valve to allow me do do the water change and send the water directly into the drain that is near by via a tube that will be attached with a quick disconned when needed.

The second closed loop, is almost ready to get fired up. But I wanted to fire them up one at a time.. so I can debug each one separately. The second closed loop returns are 2 sea swirls.

As, you can see the lights are also, up and running.

Here is the lighting setup. i wanted something that would allow the lights to be easily rolled out of the way.

Using the light rail, and auxilliary trolley from Sunlight Supply. I used 2 6ft light rails giving me a 12 foot track to allow all the lights to be rolled out from over the tank. The diamond light lumen arcs were directly attached to the trolley. With the limited height available above the tank.. I wanted the lights to be as high as possible. The cords of the reflectors were cut and the quick disconnect adaptor that came with the ICECAP electronic ballasts were attached.

Here are the pics.

To open and close the front lid of the tank, I finally got the gas springs working right. After several trials with different sizes, I ended up with the 40 lbs version. It works great....keep the lid shut tight when closed and in the open position when opened. It has a nice slow open just like the car trunks.

sanjay.

by **MartinE** » July 29th, 2006, 10:42 pm

Very nice work!! Keep the pics coming and Thanks for sharing.

by **trido** » July 29th, 2006, 11:51 pm

Nice work on everything. Love the gas shocks for the door. And here I am, a full time design and build carpenter using a piece of PVC to hold my access door open during maintanance. Learn a new trick every day.

by **bleedingthought** » July 30th, 2006, 12:13 am

Everything is super clean and beautiful!

by **LA-Lawman** » July 30th, 2006, 2:39 am

I wonder what skimmer he chose??????

hmmmmm..... the skimmer nut wants to know....!

by **Louey** » July 30th, 2006, 8:34 am

Looking good.

I like the wood work and the light rail.

Louey

by **vitz** » July 31st, 2006, 12:26 am

very schweeeeeet, Sanjay

by **Wazzel** » July 31st, 2006, 12:36 am

Looking really nice.

by **LA-Lawman** » July 31st, 2006, 12:58 am

i am jealous....! i want one! NOW!!

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