Spray Painted PVC in Refugium

mirandacollc · Mar 8, 2010

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i never stop at being amazed how people come up with ideas to change a simple concept then just go all over the place with it.. A pipe going to the bottom with a cap and holes drill ed it ? Why a cap with drilled holes ? How long do you think it will take for the holes to plug up totally ? Ask anyone who ever had the great idea to make a spray bar . Just remove the cap and control the flow with a valve and on the bottom of that feed pipe add 2 90's to form a u to prevent the water from disturbing the sand or mud.

The the fact its a 1" feed being used to supply the fuge with water is a huge amount of overkill , all you needed was 1/2 tops and i use 1/2 cpvc myself with a globe valve .
Then you want to paint it ? Why in a few months if its a healthy running refugium you will never see that pipe for the slime and hard algae growing on it then not to mention the main algae species you seeded it with . The again unless you have it up for display long side the main tank its to support who will see the pipe with primer on it ?

Now for those who worry about the aesthetics of it simple use clear pvc primer and go to lowe's or home depot and get the grey pvc electrical conduit pipe is dark and you can not see purple primer all over it.. The only reason purple primer was put out was to help the plumbing inspectors to be certain the joints had been cleaned and primer and not to have to crawl up under a house or into a ditch the clear primer is just as good .
But to get back to the looks of the refugium ? In a few months you will not be ables to see a inch into it. The bottom line is a refugium is a lot of things but beautiful is not one of them and to run the chance of messing up my system with paint i'd not do it . But thats me..

I'm not trying to sound like a butt its just that i see people always just overly simplifying a simple concept and not really knowing their nature or true function, a swamp is never as pretty as the reef its to help keep clean. And i'd never put pain into a marine system unless it was a marine grade epoxy paint and they run about 75.00 a gal last time i used any .
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doog · Mar 9, 2010

looks like that stand works! got some room under there. cool.

DanKistner · Mar 9, 2010

doog said: ↑

looks like that stand works! got some room under there. cool.
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Yeah now that there is much more room, I am going to toss that SeaLife systems sump (i don't like how one side is higher than the other and it only holds 8 gallons full. I plan on putting a 30 gallon tank under there and have plenty of room for equipment and back flow. Now I just have to find a cheap 30 tank.

doog · Mar 10, 2010

i have the same plan with my 75 stand - 29/30 gal tank for sump. the problem is that doesn't leave much room for external return pump.

DanKistner · Mar 11, 2010

Yeah, I only have an internal at the moment, I will have to think about that

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