antrageous
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Various other issues I ran into the past couple weeks:
Designed and built a remote refugium out of acrylic. However, I used 1/4" acrylic which was too thin and the tank bowed in the middle a 1/4" outward. psh, wait a waste. live and learn. I'll start over another day, probably with 1/2" acrylic. here's a pic.
Next issue was the water line in the display tank being too low. It was literally 2 inches under the eurobracing and no matter what speed the return varios 8 pump was set, the water just kept flowing easily into the overflow at that height. I tried to higher the bean animal open secondary channel but that barely raised the water level.
Finally I just built a small acrylic sheet around the overflow to bring up height of the water level. Doing this also meant I had to add flex pvc and bulkheads to the return holes since water ran into those sections. This fixed the issue and the water level is now 1/2" under the top eurobracing. what a pain...
Designed and built a remote refugium out of acrylic. However, I used 1/4" acrylic which was too thin and the tank bowed in the middle a 1/4" outward. psh, wait a waste. live and learn. I'll start over another day, probably with 1/2" acrylic. here's a pic.
Next issue was the water line in the display tank being too low. It was literally 2 inches under the eurobracing and no matter what speed the return varios 8 pump was set, the water just kept flowing easily into the overflow at that height. I tried to higher the bean animal open secondary channel but that barely raised the water level.
Finally I just built a small acrylic sheet around the overflow to bring up height of the water level. Doing this also meant I had to add flex pvc and bulkheads to the return holes since water ran into those sections. This fixed the issue and the water level is now 1/2" under the top eurobracing. what a pain...