Nick's 300DD

Got 95% of plumbing done today and got the tank filled!

Filling the tank up! You can also see how I did the plumbing a little better in this pic.


Ignore the rock work, this pic is just to show where the returns come in at.


The plumbings not in the way at all being that I already have a cross brace, I really like my returns near the front to aim back at the rock work.


Have my manifold mounted up high and will run  a few lines later on for a calcium reactor, possibly a carbon reactor and possibly UV. I wanted all my pipes out of the way so went high with this one.


I'm using all four holes on this tank as drains... which makes it dead silent. I went with 1 inch spa flex.


Still need to find a strainer intake for the lower pipe but the water level runs between the two drains controlled with the ball valve in the pic above and the second is just used as a backup. *I know a lot of you already know about this just explaining now so I don't have to later and to help people who haven't seen it before*


Here is my backup test =)  (Closed ball valves off completely to make sure the backups would do their job)


Got my float valve in for my top off and my $8 sump light.


On the drains the two white are the ones controlled with the ball valves all the water runs down these. I only stuck them in the water about 1 inch. The other two drains are the backups, I left them out of water on purpose because their sound will notify me that I need to adjust the ball valves ..





Edited by Nick801 - January 22 2014 at 11:29pm

Looking great!

Added salt today! Got my skimmer in, and added a little sand to the refugium

 I went with the Bubble Magnus curve 9  Pic was about an hour after putting it in the sump

Nice!

I like where he put the tank but the 2 things that bugged me and I like the least are the floor under it and the ceiling.

The uneven cement "tiles" under it were a pain in the ass when I leveled it for him.  Made me even happier I put nice smooth tiles under my 300 and got rid of the carpet.

the second is putting a canopy with the way the ceiling in front of that fireplace sits.  It would piss me off every time I needed to get into the tank.  He doesn't have  lot of room to get into the tank to do work.

But it is a beautiful setup and is going to be like his usual tanks, beautiful.

The rock work looks even more impressive in person! This is going to be an amazing tank!

Well I got the stand wrapped finally.... and stained it to match the pillars we have in our basement.  Also ordered doors for it today!

I still need to work on the canopy, haven't even started that yet, I'm thinking I might just get the lights hung from the ceiling tomorrow, and then take my time building a canopy around them.

Anyway here are a few progression shots =)

I really like the way that looks. Very classy.

Well I got some lights hung today. I had a couple Aqua Medic halide fixtures sitting around collecting dust so I decided to put them to use.

I put a 250w in the middle and 150watt fixtures on both ends, They actually lit the tank up really well.

These will get the tank going for a while, but I still plan to upgrade to something else in the near future. Maybe led? maybe ATI? not quite sure yet =)

Go LEDs. 2-3 hydra fifty-twos should cover that tank. (1 unit covers a 36x36 area)

Edited by kellerexpress - February 12 2014 at 4:42pm