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kodez wrote:lol I meant for the frag fest on sunday :P
That's odd with the weather we've had, my chillers been on 60% of the day lately.

Lol - yeh it should be quite the spectacle - there is going to be some great stuff up for grabs.

The water only reached 28° on that 44° plus day we just had - my two titanium heaters battling to get higher than 24° on full time (or seems to be every time i look at them). No lights prob not helping either.

Looking good Lyall

I found with the out side systems heating was the biggest issue rather than cooling.

Is it semi or fully enclosed ? I can see your using insulation in the pics so once the lights go on and if it is enclosed the heat will build up. Summer I vent the heat out the roof our room and have little need to cool only the hottest hours of the day. Days like today we not running any cooling just open the doors.

We don't use any heating other than that generated by the lights for most the year save a few of those 0 nights I run the air cons on heat.

oceanarium wrote:Looking good Lyall

I found with the out side systems heating was the biggest issue rather than cooling.

Is it semi or fully enclosed ? I can see your using insulation in the pics so once the lights go on and if it is enclosed the heat will build up. Summer I vent the heat out the roof our room and have little need to cool only the hottest hours of the day. Days like today we not running any cooling just open the doors.

We don't use any heating other than that generated by the lights for most the year save a few of those 0 nights I run the air cons on heat.

Thanks Pete - plodding along.

Yeh, the plan will be to enclose the tank stand and frag stand as one room with insulation. Once I got the doors on the back of the enclosure to stop the fan effect, the temp stabilized at 27 c. Winter might be different though.

Cheers

Time for an update

Well the old Trigon got shutdown today And boy what a messy job - I can't believe how much gunk was in the old tank and I thought I was ok at keeping it clean too.





Oh well, out with the old & in with the new (albeit outside with the new in this case). The new tanks have cycled and I was able to finally pick up the fish that came with it. It's not ideal inthat I haven't finished setting up the new system but that was the deal. Lol - I should have isolated the tomato clown (aka devils spawn) it bites me every time I put an arm in the tank -


Still not sure how to finish off the front yet -


Having issues with an old calcium reactor too - the pump didn't work so stupid me thought the fittings were just tight but it turns out they glue these things on



Lol - I got it off though

Chop

I walked past the nem tank and the little sand crab I got was out n about


This tank looks great under the MH lights - the carpets are looking much happier


The clam is enjoying the new light too

I'm also going to try keeping my shrooms in with the nems - so far they aren't hiding from the lights either


One tank done - 3 to go

Wicked, looks mint dude. Did you get that sand crab from OE? Strange looking fellows.

This is gonna be a great setup.

kodez wrote:Wicked, looks mint dude. Did you get that sand crab from OE? Strange looking fellows.

Thanks kodez - yep they (oe) got a few different things to try. Hopefully it won't end up eating everything - lol it looks like a body builder with those arms

sabo wrote:This is gonna be a great setup.

Thanks mate your already part of it with the lift help and frags

Hi folks - well I think this build is finally coming together at last.

A nice MASWA chap dropped in on the weekend and helped me move the old tanks into place (thanks Reece). The old Trigon is now a bypassable 350 lt water change tank. I can drain it and heat up the water before returning it into the system. I stuffed up the heights though and had to drill out another hole in the return sump to make gravity work lol I was that annoyed with myself i just drilled it vertical while it was there squirting a spray bottle at it every now n then - the glass cut out is still in the sump - thanks to Heliman for the glass cutters again (awesome lend thanks ) - lol, that's 6 holes now... I don't even bother using the template anymore.


And the old sump and frag rack.....has been promoted to a second level sump and frag rack

It's on the night shift - helps with ph from memory, plus it gives light into the sump room.

The old sump box is still coming in handy now as a giant tool box



Got some stick on insulation to help with temp control - it doubles as a black glass backing too


Chop