My second bigish tank!!!!

Yey. Got the last pieces of my new tank from Neilh today (thanks Neilh).
waiting for black gravel. Going to fiddle with the overflow system of pipes to save space behind the tank . Also going to use the Prof's Palmfiber peat method. The wait while the tank cycles is going to kill me (not that i have any money left to buy fish lol).
Also cleaned/tried the tank today. Can anyone give advise on how to clean those stubborn water marks that get left on the sump?

 

Glad its gone to a good home :blink1:

Sugar soap or vinegar works to remove the calcium/lime deposits.

Return pump should be in the big/last chamber. Also move one of the 150 Jagers to the first chamber. Spreads the heating load. I had the 300 in the display due to the cold floor

 

Tanks still going to be moved. I don't want to keep it under my TV. And pumps just put there after i washed everything.But i am going to be doing more research on sumps.

 

Woops

The small overflow chamber makes plumbing interesting

 

I figured I'm going to have to have a big pipe coming from the OF chamber after i tested the Pump. 1750lph is allot. A small pipe wont cope.

 

Not really, the 2 90 degree elbows slow it down a lot. You might want to change the return configuration. Change the 45 degree to a 90 degree and have a T piece. Works very well to reduce flow

 

Congrats on the great buy Franna

 

This setup will need pics as it progresses

 

+1 Donny

Can't wait to see what you do with it Franna ^^,

 

i'm sure its going to be a beaut...

 

What size is the tank ?

 

100X50X50, sump is slightly smaller

 

Pressure.. Maybe i should sketch some designs lol.

Im open to ideas for plant and layout.

Don't have any idea on what fish im going to have.
my 2 talking catfish are definitely going in once the tank is ready.

 

nice long growing plants along sides and back and some nice drift wood with a lon airstone running along the back behind the plants

 

Getting exited now. Went to a few petshops to buy tubing ect. i have a few great ideas. i want to build some sort of wooden Cabinet around the sump aswell, with a removable front so I can get to the sump (doors would feel like a waste on such a big sump).
Something that looks good but wont cost me an arm and a leg. I'm good with cars/bikes ect. but I've never tried woodwork before and sadly they stole most of my late dads Wood working tools out of our garage. Any tips?

 

if you going to do it in wood make sure you use a good sealer and measure and re measure .. before cutting lol

 

Also use Marine plywood

 

nice size. Its not huge but wide enough. Keep us updated

 

The problem with Marine Plywood is the price! It's hellishly expensive!! :amazed:

 

Got these rocks. I was looking for red jasper rocks but they were 5 rand a kg. and jasper has allot of iron in so its heavy. would have worked out to be allot. so i got these instead. at least there is a little red in them. Red would work nicely with the black substrate . These rocks would also make nice caves. wanted to drill the jasper so that its hollow if its even possible.