I'm entirely too new to this

[aedeos]

I just started an 85g tank about 4-5 weeks ago, it's going along decently, and I'm dreaming too hard. I ran into someone who suggested this site today, so here I am. Right now my tank is just sitting with 3 green-blue chromis, a domino damsel, and a coral beauty angel. 6 turbins to keep diatoms somewhat in check. For now, I dream and plan until it levels out more and I'm able to put money into it. I also should be moving in a month or two, which just makes things tougher. We'll see how well that goes. Does anyone on here have any good resource suggestions for large-scale plumbing? I'm putting together schematics in SolidWorks '07 for a dream tank, and I'd like to be able to work out plumbing as well in the design. Hopefully I'll get a grasp of these forums and learn all about what goes on here.

 

[james734]

Welcome to RF. Don't worry about putting money into it now because it'll turn into a money pit in the future. At least that's what my wife says..

Post some pics if you have chance, I'd like to see the setup..

 

[aedeos]

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v232/aedeos/

There's an idea of what I've done thus far. It's the college budget set up, but it's working so far. Unfortunately, I lost two dominoes recently. One to death, another I literally lost. *poof*

 

[james734]

Looking good..

 

[mmkeeper]

What do you mean by wholesale plumbing? Different ways to plumb your tank? Sump? Overflow? Closedloop?

 

[aedeos]

What do you mean by wholesale plumbing? Different ways to plumb your tank? Sump? Overflow? Closedloop?

not wholesale, large scale. As in, multiple thousand-gallon tanks designs, what's needed, all that.