Radar's 120 In wall build

excellent work man!

 

When i started this project my wife had two rules no debt and no would of, could of, or should of later on. So i spent better than a year saving and made me a budget and when i hit it i started going for it. I tried to cover everything except livestock. Two of my items were plumbing and misc. I figured a 100 for plumbing and 50 for misc. Well i blew these out of the water, plumbing slightly over double and misc almost triple so far. I bought a 40 breeder for a sump i didn't account for and a few of my products had price increase since my plan began. The item i have last on my want list is a calcium reactor. So in the last 2 weeks i down graded my reactor to a litermeter to a dosing pump and now it looks like i might have to stay with my current way of dosing 2 part with a shot glass. I guess the moral to my story it really is the little things that kill.

 

For circulation I'll be using a closed loop with a dart hooked to two 3/4 sea swirls and a 1 inch sea swirl. I went this route mainly because I've had a brand new dart sitting around for 3 or 4 years and i have the 2 smaller sea swirls.
After spending a hour or two drawing out the system i went to flexpvc.com and spent an hour or two finding all the parts. Yesterday i spent 6 hours working on plumbing another 2 today and still am not finished. It's amazing how hard 15 or 20 ft plumbing is to install. Vortech's are looking better by the minute.

 

I meant ecotech.

 

Just got my skimmer, went with a reef dynamics ins180. They seem to have lost some of thier appeal in a time of cones and bubble plates but i've been using a smaller one for years and it seems to get the job done. Plus made in the USA. I built a stand out of pvc and egg crate so it will sit in 7 inches of water.

 

Looking good man. How are you going to be running you closed loop? Can you draw a crude paint drawing maybe on a previous tank picture?

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Nice job man! I am following along on this one! Suscribed!

 

Looking good,

I am getting ready to do a 90 build so I will be watching yours allot!

Scott

 

Thanks everyone. I will get pic of cl soon.
Picking a controler was one of my harder decisions to make. I've grown tired of endless timers, unplugging this and that to feed fish, and my zilla thats seems to have a mind of it's own. I really liked everything about the reef angel but not having much in the way of computer skills i really worried about programming it. If i knew somebody that could come to my house and walk me through programming i would have went this route. So i went with a rke. For all the research i did what suprised me most when i opened the box was that each pc4 needs to be plugged in. I only have 1 outlet nearby so it looks like i have to take these high end power strips and plug them into a cheap power strip.

 

If it makes you feel better you can plug it in to this...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Monster...64111&skuId=8296952&st=power strip&cp=2&lp=15

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