You are going to try this ? Keep in touch. I will like to see how it goes. Thank You

any updates?

Thanks! I can't wait either. We are getting closer each day.

I can't wait to get the new systems up and running to see how much better things will be.

Double decker systems make a lot of sense to business guys that don’t have to work on the tanks :)

The old Ehiems are supposed to be very good. Unfortunately I hear the newer ones aren't as good.

Definitely first world problems

how did it go???

Than is in the process of finalizing the new septic system for the new building .....its a long story he had a few delays.

@@AlienScientistFanThank you. So he's going to use a septic system for salt water disposal? I'm curious how that would work as far as dissipating the salt from the system. Maybe have it cleaned out periodically? I'm an individual and I don't dare put it down my septic system because it kills the bacteria. (Did this and was not a good outcome lol cost $2500 to ckean out the tank and replace the leach field) Don't want to put it in my yard because it kills the lawn and plants. So in the middle of the night I wind up running it from a hose down the street. Most of the time it's not such a bad thing because it rains quite a bit in Florida and no one notices however during dry periods you can see the salt buildup.

Most of it goes out packing corals. Rest goes down the drain, but for every gallon of salt we probably put 50 gallons of fresh.

I've never heard of these before. Seems they offer a full spectrum light similar to sunlight. Many people would find that too low temp for a reef tank, though I'm sure it could be adjusted with some blue T5's. I wonder how they compare lumen/watt with LEDs. After having looked in to them they offer about 60 lumen per watt which seems to be lower than what LEDs offer. Would be interesting to see how they look over a reef tank.

No, there are things that the greenhouse does very well. In fact, we are investing in all kinds of improvements in the greenhouse.

Those were made custom.

That man is full of quite a bit of wrong information.

Ted Can you share some specifics, examples of misinformation?

The damsels help mow down some critters that can be problematic. As for solar tubes, I think they are ok, but I want a lot more control over the light in the tanks. I would more likely consider them to light interior hallways.

Damsels are more useful than you think. The only knock off for many ppl is their territory aggression for such cheap fish which is why should be placed in the tank as your last live stock additions. But damsels are part of a clean up crew as well.

@@Meldium i see, what do the clean up as you mentioned they are part of the clean up crew.

The wiring is something I am still thinking through myself. I want to hide it nicely but at the same time make it easily serviced.

@@tidalgardens If there's an easy way to have quick disconnects closer to the tanks that would be best but would require cutting the existing OEM wires and inserting New waterproof connectors right near the head units of pumps, lights, modules, at the tank side. The same would be at the controller sides. This way you don't have to pull wiring all the way through all the channels and only where you need to. It's almost like thinking about it in terms of network patch cables and switch boxes.

Exactly!

Those were made custom by a local company called Aqua-crylic

They are just ok.

About half came from 80/20 and the other half from AluFab Inc.

It is aluminum t slot

Plain steel would be better as most paints won't stick to galvanized surfaces. And even those that do, don't do so as well as they would on a well prep'd steel surface. Not to mention that the galvanization wouldn't buy you much protection against constant exposure to salt water should your paint fail anyways. If you have tanks that are already galvanized, I'd strip the zinc off with muratic acid and then paint. When you take the cost of good coatings, the time involved in doing a good job and the still significant risk of having the tank rust away eventually, plastic or composite tanks might still be cheaper in the long run.

@@siggyincr7447 thanks the idea had just came to me when I was buying some horse feed at rural King they had a returned tank on sale for $20 it had a crack in one of the welds I also know galvanized steel leaches toxic zinc into the water not a problem to livestock since they drink it away and it doesn't have time to reach dangerous limits I think if I were to try it I would sand the coating off with a belt sander and then line it with some kind of epoxy then do a final coat of some form of pond liner another reason I would like to use metal tanks is I have about 100 hours of technical drawings and research waiting to be used for building a 15 inch gauge farm railroad one of the drawings is a fragging table boxcar what it is ,is a portable sink with a RV water tank and water pump over a RV septic tank of the same size. next to the sink is a raised edge tray in between this tray and is a mini tile saw and a dry table a circulation of tank water will run through the tray and the drain that Flows back into the tank will have a filter on it to catch any particles ,the tile saw will have it's own pump that takes water from the holding tray and uses it, for the saw's waste water it will end up in the septic tank at the bottom the sinks tank will be filled using the RODI tank at the end of the building I created that idea when I saw some fragging taking place at reefsystems in new Albany Ohio they had a fragging table /cart when I saw that he was using a sink on the other side of the building I thought why not have a portable sink / fragging table and not only that but to be able to use it in any of the several greenhouses I plan to set up, the first area I already started working on in filling the area across the drive from the barn two buildings will be going there a machine shop for maintaining the railroad and farm equipment I'll be leaving some room in between the shop and greenhouse for the showroom that will come later

Never tried it sorry

@@tidalgardens thanks I would like to visit sometime my family host a horse show in Ashland every June and I also will be most likely going to Flite Fest again in July .

Do you mean for this video? I used a noise reduction filter in the editing software to knock out the pump noise. In the new place here I tried to make things as quiet as possible, but it is a long term struggle

@@tidalgardens i ment like in general pump noise wise... the place must be like an echo chamber, prob gonna be loud when its all up and running

We don't use a lot of eggcrate, but we have 2.5ppm Phosphate. We don't really deal with it.

Copley, OH

@@tidalgardens oh wow I'm just here in Michigan so I'll definitely try to visit one day! If that is a possibility?

The stands are 80/20 aluminum t slot

I never really had to make a big deal of it. They know to wash their hands and avoid using lotions or hand sanitizers.

@@tidalgardens I always wandered about this approach Than. No soap, lotions and hand sanitizers. What do you do about natural skin oils that require something to remove it before placing hands into the systems?

Angry Owl Aquariums Thanks for that 😒

@@2pleez122474 no problem 👍🦉🍻

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@@AL-se7zy dang he beat me 😭

I am not :)

Did you have a tank crash?