Hi guys
started my hole in the wall project today

cleaned out my garage and ordered new tank 48"x 36"x 24"

it starts

gray

nice one. keep the pics comming

Looking forward to the updates, 4x3x2 nice size tank too.

Where did you order your tank from and how much was it?

can i say slappy
as there not sponsors
gray

dont want to upset anyone

Looks good but the rockwork isnt very interesting.

Pm me.

pm sent

Could of got a six footer on that wall

You dont need furniture in the lounge lol

As above keep the pics coming .

tried to get bigger dave pushing my luck with the boss as it is

trouble is i have to offset the tank to the left of the garage wall to keep it central the other side in the lounge ,
these things matter to women apperantly

going to keep pics rolling guys
cheers
gray

Keep the pics rolling in ,love to see progress pic with new builds


jas

no worries jas

think of the corals i can get in this baby

gray

update

hole cut and lintel in

small incident drilled through leccy cable

mesh cleaned up
wife made me dust and hoover the whole house






looking from garage in

hello gray, very interesting, one word of advice, get tank in quick before wife decides it would make good serving hatch, keep going m8, will be worth it . cheers, norman.

Looking good Gray,

Keep the pics coming

hey gray, you will find it hard to hide in a 10ft x 8ft shed, better start running m8. cheers, norman. ps, never known a woman to fight fair, hope u got a&e on standby when she finds out.

update guys
hole is plastered and painted , she's happy now now on to the important stuff


stand is build , build it 2 foot wide than tank going to build permanent access all the way round

sump installed 46"x26"x26" just starting baffle walls drilled throgh external wall sump will have overflow weirs to waste outside
ro pipework in and new filters and inline tds meter arrived ( great service ro man )

all grey pvc pipework bought for main tank , man you can spend alot on a few bits of pipe

skimmer bought went to wales yesterday to collect big beastie
called in taunton aquarium cntre , very , very nice stunning fish

electrics next
cheers

Looking good Gray, how tall is that skimmer?

Looks good gray, a lot of work ahead of you I think, enjoyable work though

What are you doing flow wise?

Are you putting in a surge bucket or just using powerheads?

I was toying with a surge bucket but still not decided yet.

Nice project, I look forward to watching it develop, please keep the pictures and updates coming

hi slappy
not sure about flow yet
got a set of tunze ts24 but jas suggested a surge bucket , not 100% how they work or how to set up advice welcome guys

evening guys
update return pipework 90% complete cw new return pump,
have brought new water supply into garage going to run ro on auto top up
sump baffles and all overflow pipework in , have piped phosphate reactor into skimmer feed pump, done away with one pump anyway in a vain attempt to reduce lecc cost

have decided to upgrade phosphate reactor if anydody has one

and the best bit my tanks coming tuesday







cheers
gray

cool, whats the overflows in the sump for, incase of problems or water changes?

both really ben, and i bought the tank cheap with them allready drilles seemed silly not to use them , ive also tapped the skimmer cup into the mains overflow, trying to competely rule out flooding if anything at all goes wrong
gray

good thinking

Hi Gray, if you need a lift with the new tank give me a shout

update

tank was delivered at 6.30 am tuesday morning and lifted into its final home alot easier than i imagined
spent the rest of the week fixing return pipes and feed pipes, plumbed in two reactors ( phosphate and carbon ) off main return pump using a laguna 7500 pump through 32mm returns
tank has twin weirs one on each end panel 40mm pipes

have started to fix light 2x 400 watt and sort electrics

started to fill with ro last night , 4" in 24 hrs at this rate will take to friday to fill just the main tank

just can't decide weather to paint back and sides black or blue

looks good mate, get some plywood cut to size and do black one side and blue the other that way you get the best of both worlds and can change around if needed as painting the tank is ok but if you dont like it then it would be a pain to change

Very nice looking setup gray , the only trouble with painting something to put up to the glass is that if its not touching all the surface of the glass you get a reflection off the glass in those areas and also if any water gets in between the two surface's it then makes it look patchy, then you've got to keep taking it off to wipe it down, been there, done it, and wouldn't do it again.

bomber has a point about the paint, however, it would be handy to remove it so you could check behind the rockwork now and then. maybe try tillys idea first and if it does look annoying then paint it.

set up is looking great. im always jealous of people with a sump room,lol.

thanks guys
tank is full , going for the main livestock move over the weekend , fingers crossed
gray

hi guys
moved tanks yesterday took me 14 hrs , my help never showed
anyway have just dumped some rock,corals and fish in new tank and the rest in new sump , will start to sort tommorrow with aquacaping and sorting corals i want to keep and those to move on

ready to move


temp needs sorting




will start to sort sump side tommorrow
cheers
gray

Looking very smart mate

Hi Gray.

Looking really nice

Not sure if you have sorted out your flow and whether you were going for a surge bucket. If it helps i have 3 spare ones which I've just taken off. I've changed over to Ocean Motion and revs which has made hellava difference.
I have 3x 30 gal ones that just need to be re-plumbed. Your welcome to borrow one and try it for a day or 2 if you want.
I had 2 different systems on the go. 3 flapper valve ones (same principal as the toilet cystern,same as Jas has) and 1 syphon one which has no moving parts but wasnt as good.

If your interested give us a shout. I'm just over from Jas's at Scorrier and am off all week.

Cheers

Martin

looking very good and what it shows from those photos is how good it would look in black!!

Your going to spend over 50% of your time enjoying the tank behind it! don't paint it it will make it really boring doing maintenance. If you can just keep everything dark behind could you get away without a painted board also. Just an opaque black curtain or something?

if you have nothing better to do try alsorts of colours for background. white pink orange would make for an interesting blog ha ha

looking superb gray

yea martin , thanks for kind offer really interested in fitting some sort of flow device, have to admit i know very little about surge buckets maybe you or someone on here can enlighten me

last picture has a blackboard behind it , not sure yet

looks good with the black and at least you can remove it to look behind as its not so permanent

Looking good Gray

thanks for the tubs dave, sorry i wasn,t here got called to work
thanks again will drop your skimmer out when suits you, let me know
gray

Like it loads already.
Blue is a great colour for the back and sides, adds a blueish tinge to everything without having Actinics.

Thats looking verys smart already - Be cracking one day!

Hi Gray.

Theres not much to know really. Jas and Lynds got me into them. Instead of using their fish tank idea,I got some 30 gal black tanks and installed the flapper valves. It was a bit finicky to get them running right. i had 4 of them. each one plumbed into 32mm pipes and heading into the main tank through gravity.As i'm sure you know from Jasons tank,they certainly send the current through.
Not sure what you need to know or whether this is the place to bore you with the ins and outs. lol
Its a valve that has a pipe attached to the bottom of it and sits shut. As you pump water into your bucket the top end of the flapper valve has a ballcock tied to it. the water eventually pulls the ball upwards and releases the valve. This then lets the water gush out. As the water level then drops the ball also comes down and lets the valve shut again. this then allows the tank to refill....easy My apologies to reefyman and any other plumbers out there lol

Its quite fascinating to watch and has the desired effect of seeing the corals "sway" in the current,especially if you can fit a couple of them.I wanted them to provide all my circulation within in the tank... which they mostly did. But then i saw Ocean Motions and realised this was in a different league... hth

Pop over if you like and see what you think.

Martin

The only problem with surge buckets is if you are using an ATO for evaporation, the water level in the sump goes up and down and will play havoc with the float switches.

just add a delay timer £10 or less job done

update folks
transsferred over 3 wks ago and everthing seems to be good , except one casulty see other post ( monti )



tank from back


sump area


full back shot


front shot still waiting for frame . came last week damaged


superman monti



clam loving new tank


still not sure what route to go down , keep looking at a large angel , really after a final show fish
thanks
gray

Bloody hell, looks like spaghetti junction under the tank, do you know what cable is what?


Looking very nice by the way Gray.