一個簡單土炮自制三萬公升的缸

coralfriend

缸主不是一個一時衝動的人只是一個以養海水魚作為終生丞諾的簡單人!
缸主不是富豪,只是一個魚迷!
缸主在數年前在偏遠的新界以所有積蓄,購買了–座小小村屋去建造自己的安樂園!
缸主也是一個DIY高手,決定自己去組合,建造一套三萬公升的魚缸!
魚缸在建造期為時年多,力盡所有困難,缸曾爆,曾漏,曾......
魚缸終於在年多前落成了!整個魚缸是缸主自家制造,保證土炮!
主珊瑚缸現正養水,未曾入石和珊瑚,只加入數百開缸魚!主珊瑚缸8.5尺x10.5尺高3.5尺鯊魚缸8.5尺x18尺高5尺(有三尺深入地底)加缸後大Sump約3萬litre!

It compose of  one reef tank and one shark tank! The water of reef tank ,shark tank and the sump which add up to a total volume of more than 30000 litre!
Reef tank which is  still under construction.
The dimension of this tank is width 8.5 feet, length 10.5 feet and height 3.5 feet.
There are some coral keep inside the shark tank as well.
The final structure of this reef tank is not yet finished.
Rock work and coral are waiting to add inside this tank.
The current inhabitant is numerous damsel fish and tangs plus other fish as well.Those fish is kept for nearly one year.
Shark tank
Dimension(Wide 8.5 feet x Length 18 feet x Height 5 feet)
This tank is situated in the lower part of the main tank.There are two black tip and one white tip reef shark.
The length of each shark is about 4 feet long.
The shark is feed twice weekly with fish of appropriate size.
The wave maker generate huge wave every 40 seconds.  It brings fresh air and current to those sharks.
At the very far end of the tank, there reside some yellow tang and coral.

coralfriend

   水冷１及２號


  
水冷３及４號


RK2 來自結業的藍地球地鋪


RK2 化氮及生物過哭


DIY surge box no1


overflow at the back and sump at the ground, far away is DIY 8 foot skimmer made of glass
right side is DIY surge box2


bottom sump (Huge and full of plenum to reduce NO3)


a corner of connecting pipe


sump at our feet over 20 plenum box inside and fully grow with algae


Self cleaning DIY 8 feet huge square skimmer made of glass
No need to manual clean

  
top overflow at the back of the tank
Beneath is the sump underneath our foot
right side is old skimmer no 3


DIY rubbish box which is a surge box


Two huge calcium reactor and serious pump CO2 and RO water reactor



上水pump加old skimmer no4

重貴是電費,電力已特別加大,100m三相
夏天電費每月三萬,冬天每月是一萬五仟,不是想Show off但如要養到如此大的Reef tank是必需用這電量的!
可見缸主養魚的必死之心!特別一題是reef tank照明曰間用天然暘光而晚間用魯仔群!
全缸是自己一手做,玻璃不用２萬元但玻璃絞也用了２萬!
最重一件底玻璃重至一仟磅要Call齊12位Brother自己友去正位!
我都應為是神級之作!!!

coralfriend

calvinfff big brother
Since the sump grow of algae, the algae problem is settled
wingk960 bigbrother
Thanks a lot!

ulgycat bigbrother
Try my best to update!

qqkkfish bigbrother
Thanks a lot!

Bryan811 bigbrother
The tank owner is my idol too!

Snakelok bigbrother
The tank owner is really a crazy guy!

ybkwok bigbrother moderator,derek 23 bigbrother!
The owner is a low profile man.  I will ask him for his permission.  Not sure he will allow!

Benny bigbrother
He is a super reef fans.  He can stand in front of a reeftank for three hour!

Macrokong bigbrother,
This man is really crazy!

faiwong,gn02562975 bigbrother,
Thanks!

leemanho bigbrother,
The tank owner is not very rich but he has some saving to pay for the bill!
If I get such a electric bill, I will faint.

Kwong bigbrother,
The electric bill is really crazy!

Terminator2,faiwong bigbrother,
Thanks!

ff23456 bigbrother,
Green house effect, temp increase, large electric bill for chiller in summer.
I discuss with him to decrease the electric bill, the solution is cover the top, only use halide for illumination

pat_shiu bigbrother,   
Thanks!
menlok1012, jacky66, MATTFX,j90109173, Master11,sumsum28,71 bigbrother,
Thanks!
civiclau bigbrother,
I will further explain about his equiment if necessary!

Skimmer bigbrother,
Thanks!

nickdo bigbrother,
He has force to cover the top at the end.  It is what I guess!

coralfriend

Nickdo bigbrother,
Good suggestion!  Thanks a lot!   

coralfriend

ff23456

He usually use 30 large bowl of salt to change water!  He order salt in a quantity of 30 bowl!

coralfriend

ff23456,

Large reef system has many challenging problem.  Some kind of problem that we never has a chance to encounter.  We  can see the tank owner has a strong will to keep large reef tank as a life long hobby!

coralfriend

DIY Q tank! Skimmer heater, uv, airline , temporary shelter for fish(pipe)


Every time 20-30 pieces of fish is Q for 3 weeks before entering the main tank!

coralfriend

深水角 moderator big brother,obama810 big brother,z2z2 big brother,[size=1em]細輝[size=1em] [size=1em] big brotherThe tank owner says thanks a lot!

hachan bigbrother,
The tank owner is also not able to play such type of tank when he was young.  I remember I can only afford to buy a 5 dollar tomato clown fish in Mong Kok railway station market.  Work hard and you must success one day!  I will ask the tank owner for you!

吾係路人甲 big brother,
I also can't believe what I see in the very first beginning.

Timothy898989 bigbrother,
It is a good suggestion!  The tank is situated in 八鄉

Messi_sunshine bigbrother,
I will give you a pm if the tank owner allow to visit again!  

Calvinfff bigbrother,
Algae in sump is indeed very effective but the bioload of this tank is not high in this moment.  Therefore, the algae is not so much!  It is just my guessing



The rock work and the framework is in the stage of preparation.  Coral  and liverock is waiting to come



The size of shark compare to the size of salt

coralfriend

Thanks Lucky bigbrother


Calvinfff bigbrother,
The RK2 also help much to lower the nutrient level of the tank!  Therefore, the algae bloom is not so great!

coralfriend

timothy898989 bigbrother,

Yes! I agree with you.
The entire house is belong to the tank owner.

Meowmeow bigbrother,

It is a little bit crazy!

Calvinfff bigbrother,

Sure! It cannot find another one now!  I also want to buy RK2!  

Wanyechang, Him,Messi_sunshine bigbrother!

Thanks a lot!

coralfriend

Pat_Shu bigbrother,

Sorry , I do not have any tool to write Chinese character in my working place.  I have to write in English although my English is not good either.

Good observation and very good opinions from your brother!
Your brother is right.  There are still many problems existing and need to fix in his system.
There are in fact two large water containers to make the surge.
The blue one(plastic) is for the reef tank.  Unfortunately, this one is not allow to use now.
Another one(glass fibre) which is below the blue one  and the glass fibre container is for the shark tank.  
I attach two photos for your reference.  We can follow the outlet pipe and it is clear that there are two container.  One on top and the other grey one below(although it is hiding behind the concret,we can bearly see the corner of the second one).

Plastic is not uv resistance and it will crack in long term.  It also absorb water and bulge out. It change its form gradually.  In fact this plastic container is not design for holding water in long term.  Therefore, the owner change them to glass fibre instead.  The watercontainer for the shark tank is no such problem any more.  Besides that,  the blue container can make the wate level in the main reef tank rise two to three inches within 10 second.  The power of surging effect is so strong that it already damage a little corner of the glass to break and crack.  The owner has to change it back to smaller size and another material as well.  Therefore, we can not see any surging effect on the reef tank in my video!





Your opinion is very valuable.  It is also the aim of my thread.  I hope that can receive some suggestions which can help the tank owner to improve his tank.  Trial and error method is the only way to complete a task that the tank owner have not contact before!

Newtoy bigbrother, I  will try to contact the owner.

coralfriend

Pat_shiu bigbrother,
You are quite right!  Crack will propagate and become larger and larger.  Therefore, the tank owner remove the crack area entirely and then reinforced with another glass on top.  It is the area underneath the overflow site which the crack begins.  I attach two photos.  The second one is the left hand corner of the first one.  You can see that there are an extra glass cover the area under the opening of overflow area.  The tank owner emty all the water of this tanks first. Remove all the fish.  Clean the area well and then remove the crack entirely and cover the area with another extra glass. Since the cracking event has happened, the surge tower has forced to stop in action.  In fact, this tank is build by the tank owner and his elder brother.  His brother is a civil engineer. His brother advocate a lot in the design and fabricate of this tanik. His brother give instruction of not open the surge devise until any modification is made.  Therefore, I think that this tank is quite safe now!




Thank ko1008 bigbrother!

royleung826 big brother,
Thank you for your suggestion.  Use air condition to settle the overheat problem is another solution!  I hope that the tank owner will serious consider it as well!  But I think that water cooling system has to be used even the entire area is cool down by air condition.


timothy898989 bigbrother,
Thanks for your contribution.  I will tell the owner to learn something from your link.  You are welcome to give more help!