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Right so with a hell of alot of help from members on this forum i have now managed survive my 1st 7 months in the marine world. (and only 1 flood which happened today)
So what started off as just a small pass time a nice simple 60 gallon tank with a couple of fish maybe a nice coral or two. Has now gone into overdrive.
Today i finished installing my Overflow + my sump. Which had added another 18 gallon of water to my system.
Taken 90% of the live rock out of the tank and put it in the waterbutt. Taken my protein skimmer pump out of the tank and attached it too water butt and now am loving how much swimming room my tank now has.
Will take a new picture after i reattach the lid and lighting tomorrow.
But to quell the excitement untill tomorrow here is a nice picture of the mass of tubing now taking over the corner of my mothers dining room.
Just to explain how my system now works. I have an overflow sending water down into my Water butt. The exit pipe runs down to the bottom of the water butt into all the live rock ive put in there. And my external filter i was previously using then returns the water back into the display tank from the top of the water butt.
I have the skimmer pump in the water butt sending water through the skimmer which is then returned into the WB.
Well chuffed with how it now looks
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So what started off as just a small pass time a nice simple 60 gallon tank with a couple of fish maybe a nice coral or two. Has now gone into overdrive.
Today i finished installing my Overflow + my sump. Which had added another 18 gallon of water to my system.
Taken 90% of the live rock out of the tank and put it in the waterbutt. Taken my protein skimmer pump out of the tank and attached it too water butt and now am loving how much swimming room my tank now has.
Will take a new picture after i reattach the lid and lighting tomorrow.
But to quell the excitement untill tomorrow here is a nice picture of the mass of tubing now taking over the corner of my mothers dining room.
Just to explain how my system now works. I have an overflow sending water down into my Water butt. The exit pipe runs down to the bottom of the water butt into all the live rock ive put in there. And my external filter i was previously using then returns the water back into the display tank from the top of the water butt.
I have the skimmer pump in the water butt sending water through the skimmer which is then returned into the WB.
Well chuffed with how it now looks

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