Balz3352's 'Convinced Her' Basement Sump/Fish Room

[Balz3352]

I can help with that , ill adopt a piece of that landscape.... tank is looking great rj

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Thanks!! I just need to grab a bunch of cool frags from you and chad and patience.

 

[Andrew_bram]

Patience is good but hard to maintain in this hobby. Looks really nice man. Glad you didn't give up

 

[Balz3352]

Patience is good but hard to maintain in this hobby. Looks really nice man. Glad you didn't give up

Amen to this. Haha extremely hard to maintain but I also think it's kinda cool and interesting watching frags grow over time.

Im glad I didn't give up either. Came darn close but learned a lot!

 

[Balz3352]

Finished the doors.

I attached the bottom with magnets

Thankfully my father in law is in the finishing business and knows people.
Doors with just stain on them.

 

[halmus]

The cabinet work turned out really nice! Very clean looking and should be easy to access everything.

Are the upper panels on hinges or magnets?

 

[Balz3352]

The cabinet work turned out really nice! Very clean looking and should be easy to access everything.

Are the upper panels on hinges or magnets?

They're essentially l brackets with velcro on them. I made the top out of aluminum so magnets wouldn't work. I tried to do just l brackets but the doors would just slide off so I threw the velcro on and it's the perfect amount of resistance to safely hild everything on.

Top view shows front doors on. I bonded the 2 right doors together and 2 left. Makes it easier to make level and 2 doors it just about perfect to work if I need to work on the area. Happy with hie this worked out.

 

[static reef]

Looks great bubba

 

[Balz3352]

Been busy.
Added frag tank

And lights

Added a diy breakout box and added 2 floats to the frag tank just in case

Added a uv sterilizer

Made and added an algae turf scrubber

I think that's all I've done in the last couple weeks.

 

[halmus]

Looks good. I love those stock tanks.

I might have missed it, but I'm assuming the frag tank is tied into the main system? The float switches are a good investment. The ones I've used in the past don't do great under water after a while but they work great as long as they stay mostly dry. Saved me a couple of times from human error.

 

[Balz3352]

Looks good. I love those stock tanks.

I might have missed it, but I'm assuming the frag tank is tied into the main system? The float switches are a good investment. The ones I've used in the past don't do great under water after a while but they work great as long as they stay mostly dry. Saved me a couple of times from human error.

Exactly why I have 2 at different floats! Primary and backup.

Oh sorry yes it is tied to main system. I have a manifold on my system run by separate pump but all tied together. Manifold runs frag tank, carbon/gfo reactors, uv and the ats.

You can kinda see what's going on in this pic.

 

[Tango]

Rj the system looks cool man great job


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[Balz3352]

Looks like I need to redesign the ats.... Thabk god I was home.

 

[Balz3352]

Looks like I need to redesign the ats.... Thabk god I was home.

 

[Sctip]

That sucks, it could have been so much worse though. Good catch.

 

[Balz3352]

That sucks, it could have been so much worse though. Good catch.

Yeah definitely. Only dropped the salinity a little. 1.026 to 1.025. Nothing bad. Just needed to refill ato tank and clean up the water.

 

[halmus]

Any ideas on what went wrong? Hurry up and dry that floor before the wife finds it.

 

[Balz3352]

Any ideas on what went wrong? Hurry up and dry that floor before the wife finds it.

Haha im lucky she wasn't home!!

Yeah the water was following the pvc outside the box and dripping. Mow to only figure out how to fix it im thinking rubber gasket

 

[kutcha]

so is it all fixed up now?

 

[Balz3352]

All fixed up I don't see this happening again went over the design again just to see if there are any more flaws.

 

[halmus]

Any progress pics on the display? How's it looking these days?