Building The Ghost Box And Weir Box
Ok, I decided to source my own Acrylic and build my own boxes. I wanted minimal intrusion into the main tank so the ghost box had to be fairly flat. A mate has a CNC table and did a fantastic job on the teeth. I managed to get away with only a 30 mm wide box. Didn't want any shadowing potentially.
The weir box was fairly straight forward, only challenge was making sure the holes line up perfect with the glass and ghost. Obviously be dead level and ultimately not crack the acrylic as I drilled it... I'm happy to report there was no such issues. phew!!! Would have hated to bother my mate again for another comb.... Using all slip fittings and I think they are the best looking too.
So thus far I have the two RO boxes setup and connected inside...
The weir box sits nicely away from the RO boxes and I made sure all plumbing will have enough room for the unions to fit between the RO boxes...
I did complete my plumbing today but had not had a chance to mount it to the weir box yet. Did the water test on the ghost and she's all good.
My 40 meters of 6mm RO water line arrived today so tomorrow its going through the roof and that's it for top up water. Timer, float and manual isolation valves. No joint anywhere that could cause water damage, last thing we want is for the hobby to start doing damage.
The sump has also been collected and is pretty straight forward. The aim was to have two 18cm socks mounted in a tray so that water flows from the first compartment on the back left into them. Then under the baffle to the skimmer, over into a wide bubble trap where all my 8 litres of Siporax will go and then the return section. Nothing complicated here. The tray will be built this next few days. I want quiet water in here so no big drop is crucial. All 45 degree fittings where possible... should be nice and quiet.
Loving this build, and you know its hard to say which is more fun... the build or the taking care of fish and beautiful corals. THIS HOBBY IS AWESOME!!
The weir box was fairly straight forward, only challenge was making sure the holes line up perfect with the glass and ghost. Obviously be dead level and ultimately not crack the acrylic as I drilled it... I'm happy to report there was no such issues. phew!!! Would have hated to bother my mate again for another comb.... Using all slip fittings and I think they are the best looking too.
So thus far I have the two RO boxes setup and connected inside...
The weir box sits nicely away from the RO boxes and I made sure all plumbing will have enough room for the unions to fit between the RO boxes...
I did complete my plumbing today but had not had a chance to mount it to the weir box yet. Did the water test on the ghost and she's all good.
My 40 meters of 6mm RO water line arrived today so tomorrow its going through the roof and that's it for top up water. Timer, float and manual isolation valves. No joint anywhere that could cause water damage, last thing we want is for the hobby to start doing damage.
The sump has also been collected and is pretty straight forward. The aim was to have two 18cm socks mounted in a tray so that water flows from the first compartment on the back left into them. Then under the baffle to the skimmer, over into a wide bubble trap where all my 8 litres of Siporax will go and then the return section. Nothing complicated here. The tray will be built this next few days. I want quiet water in here so no big drop is crucial. All 45 degree fittings where possible... should be nice and quiet.
Loving this build, and you know its hard to say which is more fun... the build or the taking care of fish and beautiful corals. THIS HOBBY IS AWESOME!!