Hail Scuba Dave - the king of big tanks!

[Deafasa]

Greg and Dave,
You are both planning passive chillers. What happens in the winter when you don't need the passive cooling? If you bypass the loop, won't the water get stagnent (and otherwise yucky.) Are you planning on flushing the loop out every spring? Curious minds (well, at least me) want to know.

Jeff

 

[Greg Hiller]

I cannot speak for Dave. I will be using DI water in my cooling loop. I will have a small low speed pump, that will pump it though the tubing in the ground, into an expansion reservoir, then through the cooling loop in my sump. I don't want anything growing in the cooling loop as I don't plan on digging up the tubing to clear it!

 

[One Eye]

Greg, you are a coral farmer. That makes this a buisness investment and combining 2 tanks into 1 more efficient tank seems to me to make it a wise investment.

Dave, well.....Dave, your just a FREAK!

 

[seasno]

Exciting news! Best of luck guys...Keep us posted on the progress.

 

[Scuba_Dave]

My passive chilling loop is planned for under the garage floor. The garage should stay above freezing. And since thsi will be salt water, it would have to be even colder. The garage will be insulated, the back wall will be 1/2 buried underground, the room above will be heated, and planning on well sealed & insulated garage doors.
As far as growth...no light..not much growth...but possible. I think Moe had a mushroom growing in a light sealed cannister.
As far as getting yucky, I think a 5000gph pump will flush it out easily enough.

And I will be selling frags (softies), as soon as I get rid of my flatworms (and none sighted for 2 months or more). I do not think I will have any acro frags for a long, long time. Except maybe orange cap, green slimer & any other fast growing acro.

Freekin A!!

 

[Moe_K]

Anyone have Scuba Dave or Greg beaten already?
I think Alberto does (not Armando... yet ).
How about Randy?

 

[TheUltimateNoob]

you mean tank size?? what does alberto have?

 

[Greg Hiller]

Randy's looking at a nearly 10 ft x 3 foot tank (not sure it will really happen, Randy dreams a lot!), but I don't think it will beat Dave!

 

[Armando]

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(not Armando... yet )

 

[Alberto780]

my tank is 560 gallons all glass 3/4 thick reef ready 11 feet long 31 inches tall and 32 inches wide
i built the stand out of 2" square tubig hey dave if you need help moving the tank let me know i can help you i have a full size truck and i can also get a trailer

 

[mikrok]

holy crap

where have I been?

 

[Scuba_Dave]

Move date will be sometime mid-September I think...Whenever he's ready. They are still removing LR & there is a ton (literally!) of sand in there
Ideally I need a flatbed. I'd like (need) some way of moving it that will keep the 5'x8' base flat

 

[Deafasa]

I get it. A closed loop with coils of tubing in the sump. I thought you were going to pump the tank water through the tubing, into the yard, and then back to the sump.
If the water is already cold enough you can shut off that section of the sump with an electric ball valve, or just pull the coils out, or turn the pump off, or any of a bunch of different things.
I like the idea. Good luck with it.

Jeff

I cannot speak for Dave. I will be using DI water in my cooling loop. I will have a small low speed pump, that will pump it though the tubing in the ground, into an expansion reservoir, then through the cooling loop in my sump. I don't want anything growing in the cooling loop as I don't plan on digging up the tubing to clear it!