Treants - 155 Dirt build (56K) It's Flooded!

[Layout420]

Looks good so far, that's a massive undertaking to carpet a tank with foreground. Can't wait to see it filled!

[ikuzo]

wow
a dry start for a tank this size
can't wait to see the mature state

14 hours of planting is awesome
i've done 8 hours
but 14 man, what a tiring job

[Dutchworks]

Ok, question time. I am starting to put together my filtration system and decided that going oversize was better than undersizing, so I bought a Reef Octopus OB300D overflow box. This one is rated at 2000 gallons/hr and has dual 1inch outlets.

The question now is the pump size. I am not going to try and push 2000 gallons through that tank, but want a good decent flow. I also am going with a fractioning impeller pump to use as my CO2 injection method.

I was looking at the Danner Model 18 supreme w/fractioning impeller, this one would push about 1200 gal/hr @ 5 ft head. I plan on splitting the outlet which is 1 inch into two feeds that are reduced down to 3/4 in lines, one for each side of the tank.

Does this sound like too much pump?

Comments, suggestions?

Thanks.

[Dutchworks]

Week 6
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Things are still growing in nicely, moved a few things around, added moss to the trees. More plants coming on Friday for the rest of the tank, will update with pics:

[Dutchworks]

Week 7.

Rest of the plants got here today, got them all in (one stem at a time) except a very large NL java plant in the right corner.

Pump is ordered, went with the Mag18 Fractioning, will be here next week. Time to put together the filter, plumbing, etc.

[Lil' Swimz$]

Very nice!

[kwheeler91]

You dry start guys have some serious patience. I would never last

[CL]

Must be nice to have so much real-estate to work with. Solid start. That's a lot of glosso right off the bat!

[Dutchworks]

ty for the feedback!

Put the background on last night, really makes the colors pop now (guess I should have also cleaned the inside of the glass b4 the shot)



mini xmas moss:


fissidens are really taking off now:

[@marko@]

this tank is gonna sick.
cant wait to see the stems grow to their full size.

[aXio]

Looking really good.

[Hadouken441]

Wowowow. It looks better than most tanks and its not even flooded.

[TWA]

Thank goodness you went with black John. In my opinion the best background is black. No question.

Tank still looks great, What fish are planned?

[Dutchworks]

Week 8-9

The last few weeks has seen an explosion of growth. The HC is almost fully carpeted now. I will say that the glosso has been quite a challenge, still having problems with sections dying off for no apparent reasons.







The xmas moss on this tree has bloomed! really pleased with the spread and growth on it:

[Dutchworks]

Time to start on the plumbing. With the great help from a fellow club member Jarrell, with access to some really neat equipment for cutting stuff, we put together the wet\dry sump this weekend.

The tank is a 40 breeder. There are 2 one inch inlets (the bulkheads) that stick down into a noise reduction chamber on the sides, the water then flows up and over the filter sock plate, down through the socks and then out through an opening that is level with the diffuser plate for the bio chamber. It then flows through the bio balls, out the bottom and through a bubble reduction area before hitting the sump. The sump has a built-in float control that will be attached to a RO system to refill for evaporation. The sump also contains the Mag 18 fractioning pump and heater(s) not sure how many heaters I will need at this point but there is plenty of room to add more.

My thanks again go out to Jarrell for all his help with this build.







Waiting on another bulkhead (in the mail) to finish it up. The really nice part of this filter is that top lid covers the entire sock and bio chambers to create a very tight seal to keep the CO2 in place.