Great Riaan will be beautiful when it is done. Why don't you connect the new tank to your filter room?
RiaanP Mermaid tank
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well, he did manage to get black paint on the wall behind the tank...
Check the mark right above his hands.
He does need some training in painting techniques.
it will be.
in the pic where my son is painting, or trying to paint. Can see the hole already cut for the pipes.
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To everybody, thanks for the support and compliments.
Anyway, changed my mind on the overflow box.
Tested my new design based on the Bean animal overflow last night. Using a Water Blaster 5000L/h pump. Still need to redo this test using the DC12000 pump to see if it can really handle big turnovers.
Anyway
and
Using old bucket.
The pipe on the right is the one supposed to run full siphon. I did add a ball valve after these pictures were taken to get it right. Using soil vent valves as Durso pipes. On the right there are 2 holes, closed up with a bit of silicone for the test. Seems I need to add two airline tubes to get it right. The amount of air via one pipe does not work.
I suspect that using a 12000L/h pump will force another full siphon standpipe. If I can recall correctly, somewhere it was mentioned that one 50mm pipe can handle around 6000L/h.
Anyway, changed my mind on the overflow box.
Tested my new design based on the Bean animal overflow last night. Using a Water Blaster 5000L/h pump. Still need to redo this test using the DC12000 pump to see if it can really handle big turnovers.
Anyway
and
Using old bucket.
The pipe on the right is the one supposed to run full siphon. I did add a ball valve after these pictures were taken to get it right. Using soil vent valves as Durso pipes. On the right there are 2 holes, closed up with a bit of silicone for the test. Seems I need to add two airline tubes to get it right. The amount of air via one pipe does not work.
I suspect that using a 12000L/h pump will force another full siphon standpipe. If I can recall correctly, somewhere it was mentioned that one 50mm pipe can handle around 6000L/h.
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I did add the ball valve, and it was really quite. Impressive, taking into account that it is 5000L/h running.
Just need to play a bit more to see if I can get the airline right, and that it does start correct after the pump was switched off. it does seem to take a while to flush the air out of the full siphon pipe and to stabilize.
Just need to play a bit more to see if I can get the airline right, and that it does start correct after the pump was switched off. it does seem to take a while to flush the air out of the full siphon pipe and to stabilize.
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Not much happened end of last week.
Anyway, played a bit more on the overflow box. Opened up the internals of the full siphon vent valve on the left with a Dremmel to ensure maximum flow.
Anyway, played a bit more on the overflow box. Opened up the internals of the full siphon vent valve on the left with a Dremmel to ensure maximum flow.
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Gesiggie
Challenge accepted
Stop teasing and work faster young man....
Tagging
Tested with a DC12000 Jabea.
Works very very well, silent. Can hear a slight trickle up very close, like less than 30cm.
hopefully, this weekend I can continue.
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Hehehehehe! You talking about Riaan here?
Looks great, now get the tank wet! Less time on MASA and more time on tank!
congrats on the new tank mate i seem to recall you sayiong you'll never go big again after the outside tank
oh and please feed your kids a little, the sight of them makes me feel obese!
i seem to recall you sayiong you'll never go big again after the outside tank oh and please feed your kids a little, the sight of them makes me feel obese!
Nope... had plans for a while... Remember we talked about it. OK, this one is not as wide (front to back) as we did discussed this time last year. WOW time flies....
Anyway... Update time. Something did happen.
Had to wait for Deon to come around. Its not as if I can just take the tank to somebody to drill it for me.
New overflow exit holes drilled.
And the old outlet holes closed up with the front piece of the old overflow box.
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Gesiggie
Challenge accepted
Thread should be renamed to "Merman Tank". Only men in it up to now