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Post by jgentry on Dec 10, 2013 16:30:03 GMT -6
After being fishroomless for 15 months I'm finally getting started on my build at the new house. Got all of the electric ran last night. Ordered everything for the racks today. I was going to go metal originally and still think that is the best way to go but I instead chose to save $1500 and build out of wood myself. Should have the plumbing ready and racks build by Jan. Hope to have tanks and get them drilled and plumbed by the end of Jan. If all goes well it should be very automated and extremely low maintenance. Not going to be huge or anything, just a nice setup to be able to breed some of the fish I enjoy.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Dec 11, 2013 8:59:25 GMT -6
Looking forward to seeing the progress. Keep us posted.
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Post by jgentry on Dec 11, 2013 9:54:33 GMT -6
I've got a couple of days off next week so I plan on doing a little more deer hunting and getting the racks started. I don't think they will take more than a couple of days to build. There's no real rush though. I'm going to take my time on this project. Hope to be running in January but realistically as long as it is up before the ACA convention I'll be happy.
What are most people using for tap water filters? I know several companies that sell and service them but I'm just starting to look at this part of the build out. Since it's going to be a drip system I was just going to filter all of my water in the fishroom rather than using dechlorinator or a dosing system.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Dec 11, 2013 10:06:33 GMT -6
I just bought a kold ster-il but it's not operational yet. Gotta get my utility sink put in first.
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Post by jgentry on Dec 12, 2013 14:55:05 GMT -6
I ordered my tap water filtration from these guys thefilterguys.bizSuper nice very affordable. It will only cost be about $25 per year for filter replacements to run all of my tanks with basically no water changes. |
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Post by davidtcb1 on Dec 13, 2013 12:02:55 GMT -6
I'm trying to figure out how to get hot/warm water through mine. You aren't supposed to run hot through it, so I've gotta figure out how to do water changes and still get filtered warm water without doing a reservoir container. I was going to plumb it before the sink but now looks like I'm gonna have to do after it comes out of the spicket and do a Y adapter for when I'm using the utility sink for things other than water changes.
Thoughts?
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Post by jgentry on Dec 13, 2013 13:46:39 GMT -6
The only real not a pain to use way to do it is to have a water heater after the filter. Not exactly a cheap option. The filters work great for drip systems because I'm not putting enough in at a time for the cold water to be an issue. When I do manual water changes I'll still use dechlorinator and not run the water through the filter. I'm just going to put a garden hose hook up under the sink on the cold water line to hook the filter too.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Dec 13, 2013 19:24:18 GMT -6
You think even 75-80 degree water would be considered "too warm" for the filter? I thinking when they say don't run hot through it, they mean full hot. That wouldn't even be considered warm for water changes.
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Post by jgentry on Dec 14, 2013 6:37:35 GMT -6
It should be ok. You filter will likely not last as long. In the summer the cold water around here runs around 72 so it's not that far off. Most of the filters say 60 for optimal performance.
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Post by spacebug on Dec 22, 2013 17:31:12 GMT -6
Sounds like it's going to be nice. Looking forward to hearing about your progress and how you put it all together.
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Post by jgentry on Dec 22, 2013 18:05:19 GMT -6
Got the first rack painted today. It plan to put a 135g, 4 40g breeders, 90g and a 20g on this rack. Got another rack ready to paint that is going to hold 2 125g tanks. Going to get some acrylic cut Tuesday to build my own 75g sump out of. My tap water filter arrived Friday, still need to plumb the sink.
I'm going to rent a hole cutter from jehmco to drill all of the tanks, if anyone needs a tank drilled you are welcome to bring it over. Probably going to do that in about 3 weeks when I have all of the tanks ready to be drilled.
Still trying to decide on what pump to run the system with and what to use for a heater. I'm going to use poret foam filters on each tank also for extra filtration so the system should run awesome and I'm hoping maintenance will be very minimal.
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Post by jgentry on Jan 5, 2014 15:46:37 GMT -6
Since this will be a central system I was thinking of doing one planted tank in the system for even more nitrate control. Any suggestions on low tech plants for this. I just need something that will not require CO2 or fertilizer addition.
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Post by spacebug on Jan 5, 2014 18:01:52 GMT -6
I've got a low tech planted tank that I've had running for a year now and the plants are doing great. In fact, it needs a massive cut-back. I'm going to list what I have off the top of my head, so the spelling is probably not going to be great. Sorry about that.
Subulata Saggitaria
broad and narrow leaf ludwigia
narrow leaf java fern
red temple plant
golden creeping jenny
jungle val
I think that's about it.
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Post by jgentry on Jan 5, 2014 19:08:24 GMT -6
Cool, thanks for the names. I think having a heavily planted tank in the system is going to really help the water quality.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Jan 5, 2014 20:37:22 GMT -6
Will basically act like a refugium in a sump?
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