Sorry it's been so long. I'm been updated the RC thread but here is the latest! Moving Rock over this weekend!
OK so today I'll post pics from Tues and before then tommorow I'll get a few more of the tank and trim, etc.
First shot is looking at the front as I just started to fill it.water. The PVC pipes are filled with sand. Their only purpose is to provide weight to keep the starboard down since it foats otherwise. I'll take them out once the rock is in there.
Water finally in the tank
Now for some plumbing. A little explaination first. I plumbed it where I could take the sumps totally offline if I wanted to. I also plumbed to where with just a few
ball valve turns I could drain the lower sump. So it looks pretty complicated but the reason is that it's super flexible now.
Back. The far left had of the picture the right return is out of the shot. This is mainly for naming reference on the underneath pics.
Here is a closer shot of the bottom. I really tried to keep everything high so I still have tons of room under the tank for storage.
Yet another angle. Note the numbers on the ball valves and I'll explain the positions for various activities below.
In normal mode with water darining to the sumps then returning to the tank
1,3 are closed and 2,4 open
When I'm draining to do a water change
1,3,4 are open and 2 is closed
For bypassing the sump (closed loop in tank basically)
1,2 are open and 3,4 closed
Hopefully that all made sense
Anyway last pic for now. Here are the PVC supports I made for the rocks. I laid them out pretty much how I want them in the tank. Where the lighter fluid bottle is is where a huge 18" rock will be. My idea was to hide all the Tunze and the bulkheads in the tank to have as clean a look as possible.
That's enough for now!
