VanDeaM's Oceancia Tank No4.

[VanDeam]

bY the way THomas Come over lah A few reefers coming over and help me scape + equipments installation

southpaw , Kenji and a few more come over kopi

OPEN house to any one too just call me find my number in Market thread

[thomas_lim]

but this is gorgonia right ? seafan family not leather T_T ?

Yes, but they do slime like leather as well. Do be more careful abt it.

Busy today as got visitors at home. Another day.

[hammy]

Look like a super great project ... will dropby ur place to behold the real stuff when the tank is established.

[VanDeam]

After 7Hrs of Working our arse off

Thanks to Southpaw & Kenji help (of course alot of others behind the scene:P)

Manage to put 50% of the equipments in + scaping done

Coming weekend should finish most of the stuff alot of shopping to do

thanks bro , Next week not order pizza i cater Food !! lol

[VanDeam]

Side view with 8 X ATI tubes 5 Blue 3 White

Scape not fully done coz i missing 1 Tunze Magnet , and a few more rocks to complete

[VanDeam]

FRont View with a giant Overhang .

from top to The MH is less than 1 FT !

P.s Sorry glass alittle dirty and house REALLY messy

[VanDeam]

Make Shift Skimmer while waiting for big daddy to come

well More or less this sum up everything

Everything went smoothly except some hiccups on Tunze wavebox

gonna head down to RD this tuesday to get a replacement

Next week Agenda coming weekend :

Drill Holes thru the Wall

Trunkings

Scaping

Wiring

install Skimmer

Thats all folks . till next weeks , thx guys for helping over this weekend

[Ah-lim]

Side view with 8 X ATI tubes 5 Blue 3 White

Scape not fully done coz i missing 1 Tunze Magnet , and a few more rocks to complete

Wow. The big one is up.

More photos !

[VanDeam]

No more update till this weekend , tommorow will be going shopping island wide with some reefers for parts , equipments , livestock , liverocks and diy stuff

stay tune

[Reefzzz]

FRont View with a giant Overhang .

from top to The MH is less than 1 FT !

P.s Sorry glass alittle dirty and house REALLY messy

Nice island style rockscape, bro...

Pls do a good job for your 4x4... Will look very impressive if nicely done..

[VanDeam]

Of course will do with all reefers help

Already got ready my GLUE for my future residence

[VanDeam]

Many thanks to those that help !!

Tanks already roughly 80% complete and really all credit goes to kenny and kenji and ahlim thanks for helping me setup this mega monster

Will update picture shortly

Trunkings and wirings almost done 90%

wave makers all in postions

Skimmer installed

Chiller in place (waiting for pipes)

This coming weekend mostly the final week

Installation of lights + running chiller and ready to roll

will post pictures later

cheers. thx guys.

[VanDeam]

Pics as shown per week in progress

Heres my workers from family renov drill a big hole thru the wall , havent putty waiting for all pipes and wires to run first temp job a arylic board recent rain spell is a spoiler !

[VanDeam]

inside wall needs repaint after kenny DRaw on my wall with a pen Thanks Buddy !!

kidding not angry

[VanDeam]

Got a piece of water resistance board no idea what is it , aint arylic not sure what is it , kennys screw broke tryign to drill in with a powerdrill .. but at least its water resistance

A mounting board for all drivers , controllers and monitors ..

design by Kenny Aka southpaw23 !!

erm of course not done , this weekend finishing everything

[VanDeam]

Install a 851 with help of ahlim , kenji and yes kenny again ..

AFter 16hrs of skimming

OPS never knew its out of focus , came up 3storey already lazy to go down to take again ..

[VanDeam]

Close up on skimmer cup .

[VanDeam]

Ok kenny and kenji

Here are the tools just got my workers to go back to factory and get them ,

sorry abt the mix up , after they drilled the hole they thought we finish took all back with them hence we cant complete this week

Anything missing please let me know

gonna go out to get the rest of the shopping list as u listed .

Guys thats all for now

Wait till next WEEK !!

p.s BTW this weekend anyone wanna come gather and have fun together talk ###### and get Freebie please come lol everyone walk home with free stuff and FRAGS yesterday u know wat i mean kenji rofl.

[tang73]

Any update??

[VanDeam]

Everyweek end

tommorow a few reefer brother will come and put the final touch over anyone is welcome 1pm to 9pm .

cheers ,

[VanDeam]

As requested . Almost all done . Just need to install lights and hook up Chiller

My mounting board done by Kenny (not me)

[VanDeam]

hook up all tunze controllers Left :

Chiller Thermo controller

Ph controller

Orp controller

to mount

And in future MY AQUATRONICA need to save

[VanDeam]

Piping Done up

running 6ft of Pipes to Chiller outside and Back and feed thru Deltec 851 using 1262 .

[VanDeam]

Partition in my sump . the black board unknown material broke numerous screws and bits when attempt to Drill thru with a Power drill

Its tough and waterproof !!

[VanDeam]

sigh ...

Sump gave way ...

MIstake : Put AP851 in sump and grit of sand ran under the 851 .. and the weight stress the base and WHAM .... Flooding at home ... sigh .

now gonna redesign the sump with another reefers help

and get a tank maker to build it ...