AndyL Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Well, gotta admit, I'm a slacker - the minibow 5 was getting some really good green algae growth on the acrylic... And God knows I'm too lazy to scrape it - so it was time for a tank upgrade Tank's of course a minibow 7 - made out of glass, sweet little system in its own right. But that's not good enough. Drilled 3 holes for 1/2" bulkheads, one feed for the closed loop, 2 returns, equiped with Hydor Flo's (rotating nozzles, poor mans wave makers) - which if you're curious clip right into 1/2" bulkheads :thumbs: Flow supplied by a Mag 3. So here's day 1's progress: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Roth Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 thats really sweet :> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanerd Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Sweeeeet :thumbs: Hey do you think it'd be possible to include what this is costing you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyL Posted December 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 (edited) Keeping track of pricing would be very... Very... Bad... LOL :mad: MB7 - Used cost me 60$ Mag3 - ? 70$? (had it onhand) Hydor flo's 2@ 19.99 each (pisces) Plumbing bits & pieces - 40$ Black paint - 5$ Acrylic top - Scrap laying around. The rest is coming out of my MB5, so no pricing on that sorry. Andy Edited December 4, 2005 by AndyL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murminator Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Thats gonna be a cool little set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyL Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: Note to readers - Never go pure hard lines to bulkheads... use some flex somewhere in the system... Otherwise you have 5g of water on the floor. Wait till you see the 10g :thumbs: Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlkWolfe Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Thats it, your OUT of the minibow club MB wannabe :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTR Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 In all fairness, he does still have his MB5. So now he can still be in the junior MB club. And dream of getting the real MB again one day. :drool: Now back to the drawing board there CADET ANDY. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyL Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 :cuss: :boom: :boom: :boom: :boom: :cuss: :mad: :mad: :mad: Wait, its only a sheet of glass, she shall rise from the dead soon enough. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTR Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 -roll- -roll- -roll- And the dead shall rise again to take over the world. No MB secret decoder ring till you repair the damage you have caused. :beer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyL Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 (edited) I still have the 5 - I'm still a member of the club :mad: :cuss: :cuss: I'ma gonna take my ball an go home! Hey J-roc I wanna be moderator again! :banned: :drunk: Andy Edited December 5, 2005 by AndyL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquanerd Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Crazy I didn't think that it would break like that. I'm guessing thats becasue there is no give in the Bulkhead connections? So when the glass flex's the bulkheads put stress on it, right? Good thing it happned to you frist, good lesson for us all! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyL Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 yeah, test run and construction were done on a nice true level surface, wasn't an issue, but my desk apparently has a bit of a bow to it - thus the pump wasn't quite touching ground (was about to grab some foam rubber to fix that), but the stress + vibration resulted in a end to end crack through the intake for the closed loop... And well... I'm sure y'all can imagine the rest Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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