Blitzkragz' 12ft 375g rimless peninsula with rotary drum filter build

[Captain Quint]

Cannot believe I've missed this thread until now.

Wow!!! @blitzkragz incredible build.

Thanks for joining and a warm late welcome to R2R.

 

[i_declare_bankruptcy]

THIS IS N U T S

 

[Plazy21]

I'm very excited to see this build come together!

 

[blitzkragz]

Wow, I can't believe its finally here! Special thanks to @Anirban for coming over to help move the stand. It was a pleasure meeting you, I am sure my noob self will have some questions for you

The tank moving I hired out though, it took all of 9 burly men to carry it (in the rain) around the house and through the folding/sliding doors.

Today working on the pluming and rinsing the 10 bags of Tropic Eden MiniFlakes!

 

[Anirban]

Wow that thing is really big. Hope your kids are loving it. It was nice meeting you too. Feel free to let me know if you need any more help.

 

[dantimdad]

Incredible!

 

[blitzkragz]

Filling it up with the 200 gal at the ready in the basement. Spent all day rinsing sand, decided to add it before putting in the Marco rocks that have been cooking for a couple months.

 

[Anirban]

Filling it up with the 200 gal at the ready in the basement. Spent all day rinsing sand, decided to add it before putting in the Marco rocks that have been cooking for a couple months. View attachment 990109 View attachment 990111

Did you measure the PO4???

 

[Captain Quint]

I am so bringing you a tank warming gift the next time I go to my beard barber in Chapel Hill.

That is incredible!

 

[McPuff]

...the next time I go to my beard barber...

I so want to make fun of you for writing this... :0) :0) :0)

 

[Captain Quint]

I so want to make fun of you for writing this... :0) :0) :0)

Be my guest. I've worn one for ~45 years.

 

[McPuff]

Be my guest. I've worn one for ~45 years.

Nah, just joking. I can't even grow an actual beard. :0)

 

[Reefcowboy]

Great job with a well planned, clean build. Looking forward to updates

 

[ithk21620]

Looks like a fun build!

 

[blitzkragz]

This weekend saw some major progress! I plopped in the Marco rocks I had cooking in the basement (DEFINITELY NOT their final arrangement). Then I painted the bottom tank bracing white. Then I custom cut and loose fitted the gloss whie Ikea Ringhult cabinetry facing to the tank as it stood, and shimmed underneath them so they were perfectly level with the bottom tank trim. Next weekend I plan on getting underneath there and welding the hinges in place.

Also am trying to figure out the exact spacing of the Kessils now that the tank is actually here. I attached one I got for my invert qt to start gauging how high it should be to not blind you. The spread on these A360x's is so wide! Believe it or not, 4" above the water seems to be the height at which it all goes into the tank instead of the room.

My absolute favorite thing about this tank so far is seeing the water traverse 12' over the surface.

 

[dantimdad]

Just amazing!

 

[Anirban]

Great..looking awesome. Just measure the lights LED can penetrate much more than T5 so place the corals accordingly.

 

[McPuff]

Will you have a screen top at all? Forgive me if I missed it but what is the stocking plan? Looks really good so far!!!!

 

[dantimdad]

I think I would take a single piece of 40mm 8020 and suspend it by wires on either end and in the middle and put the kessil's on it.

Very minimal and unobtrusive and strong.

And it would be adjustable that way as well.

 

[blitzkragz]

I think I would take a single piece of 40mm 8020 and suspend it by wires on either end and in the middle and put the kessil's on it.

Very minimal and unobtrusive and strong.

And it would be adjustable that way as well.

That's the general idea, but 40mm would be way larger than I would like. If you look at the post from the 5th of the kessils, they are mounted on a 19mm 6061 aluminum square that I ripped in half, with 3 points of support. The Kessils are surprisingly light, and 19mm was the smallest size that would fit everything. I realized I would like to have it covered on the top after the wiring is stuffed in. So this weekend I worked on that -- I started over and ripped another one so the walls were higher then used a milling machine to "chamfer" a groove on the inside wall of each side, and then milled a piece so it wold just fit in the groove. I plan to tap a few countersunk m3 screws to anchor the cover, and paint it all white.