Your attention to detail is outstanding. I don't plan to ever build a large coral farm but I really enjoy watching your effort to make the day to day more enjoyable to your team and yourself.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!...........PHENOMENAL VIDEO!!........I was Freaking 💯 MESMERIZED!!...😱😱😳😳😳😊😊😊😁😁😁 Thanks For The "Nuts and Bolts" (WELL!..."PIPES AND PUMPS" Tour!!)...👍👍👍👍👍 Sean.
As I start up my business @CoralReefCay I have learned so much from watching your successes and failures throughout the years as well as everyone else. Hopefully one day I'll be profitable enough to be on this level. I will definitely be posting my progress videos here on youtube like you Than!
Hello Sir. Very awesome state of Art work in your Tidal Garden. Glad you went with Sch.80 pipe, if you get a leak you can weld the leak. Love the elbows work so clean a looks sweet. That guy that made the Rock is awesome can't wait to see live Coral on it. Also so people don't understand Volume first than to down in size. Love the intake you can move water more ways you want. I hope someday come up there an see ART at work. Please don't let people get to you, you at the best thing for us people want live marine life and let our Ocean SAFE. God Bless. Please think on having it Bless on Opening day. Thanks Greg of Ohio. Southwest of you
Even though I’m 3500 miles away so will never see it in person and still I can’t wait to see it finally up and running - it’s been an odyssey and a half for you Than, nearly at the finish line 🏁
AMAZING!!! The planning and execution Than put in this building is so interesting and the execution is so clean. What a great work ethic. Video is perfect and so well done. Call me a Tidal Gardens fanboy.
Idk what to say that hasn’t been said... just simply beautifully functional design and craftsmanship. Your other video on your design choices was also great. Looking forward to more updates on the new building but I wouldn’t mind if you made us wait a bit to show us more coral videos as well. 👍👍
Your aqua system is absolutely amazing, looking forward to seeing your show tank I'm sure it will be absolutely mind blowing. Keep up your incredible work !!!
Looking great! I'm so excited to checkout the new building. I live 5 minutes from you and I've been following these updates.. Wow. What an impressive setup. Can't wait to see it
Why did you use schedule 80 instead of schedule 40 pvc pipe? Seems to me your pressures are not high enough to exceed the capacity of schedule 40. Great build by the way. Your geothermal temperature control system is unique and great.👍
That was so enjoyable to watch ,although I got a little behind, i managed to to sort of figure it all out! Very impressive system Wow!💜 I got a real kick out of when you said "Yes I am that Nutty" 🤣 didn't want to say anything 🤔 teasing it is perfect to be so neat and organized👍 can't wait to see how thing progress great job!😊💜💜💜🐠
I'm very curious what kind of hassle/maintenance over long term will be, to me it look super solid and your design/choice are the same has I would do minus your experience. You could make a rotation/spining thing with the return tube, from your closed loop, potential is here.
We have some but they are cheap and look like they would fail. Also vectra pumps have a closed loop mode where you can program them to do different flow patterns. Having said that we will probably just leave them at a set speed.
You obviously put a ton of thought into the plumbing. Question is why you chose an over the top return lone versus drilling into the tank from either the back or bottom?
Great vid! I'm surprised you didn't fit sweeping elbows on the 3inch drain section where you're planning on using a drain snake. I reckon you'll have problems getting it through that tight 90. Can't wait to see everything stocked!!!
@@tidalgardens I can imagine! What was the reason for going schedule 80 on everything? Just added peace of mind on how hardwaring the system needs to be? I guess you're about as industrial as it gets in the industry hehe! I check your channel every day just in case I've missed a notification!
There are some calculators out there for the flow loss, but even with the pump at the lowest setting we are getting decent flow. I don't see a situation where we would need a lot more flow, but if we did we can always upsize the pump to something even bigger.
Looks great! Now that you have water, have you started taking some humidity readings in the building? I wonder if there are guides/standards for say, x amount of water surface and x temperature equates to x rise in humidity? How will you handle ATO?
Great video, beautiful build! I heard you mention cleaning vertemid snails out of the plumbing in the future. I'm curious of your opinion, is that something you can prevent in your new system, through a heavy QT and frag remounting process? I'm trying to keep them out of my new frag system build now. Or, is it a reality pest and you just assume they will find their way in eventually. Thx!
That's a good question. We are actively trying to keep them out. We have the luxury of kicking stuff out as soon as we see it, so hopefully between QT and aggressive removal we won't have them show up.
Do you have any advice on vermetid snails? It sounds like you think these will be an inevitable fate for your new pristine tanks. If only there was an assassin sail specifically bred for eating these little buggers. By the way, you have done an amazing job and thanks for sharing!
I love it when ecotech comes to the party on these projects :) for a home reefer like me I just can’t afford them :( I know why you chose this lighting, but I wonder if ecotech wasn’t an option, what you would have gone for ? I just had one of my ecotech MP40s rust out, my older ones are fine, any concerns around all those vortechs ? I lost a couple colonies from the rust that dumped its guts into the tank, scary stuff as it did so between maintenance of 6 weeks.
For the winter the air exchangers can easily handle the humidity. They are surprisingly good at that as a matter of fact. We have them set to the lowest fan speed and the building is dry. Once we get into the humid spring and summer though we are going to rely on the air conditioning first. I have one 5-ton unit, but the line sets ready for a second 5-ton unit. If that is enough we will have to add dehumidification near the tanks.
Thanks one more time for sharing, such a nice and reflected setup! I would be worried a little bit about your overflow system / sump capacity: if you stop return pump (and there's only one), water level will go down up to level of main first overflow. With such long tanks, and you've got 4 right?, is the sump really big enough? Would suggest to consider one modification on these main overflows: use another tube on them, to reverse the intake not at the top but bottom, and little hole just under water level of the skimmer to deactivate the syphon. 2 benefits: taking water from bottom, and minimise diff between main and skimmer overflow, meaning less water going to the sump if return pump stop. What do you think? ;)
very nice.. but i have some comments about the close loop controllers... its bad if you want to put it there, each time you are going to take corals or something there will be some water drops to the controllers and over time it will go inside and destroy it as it has been done for me and i lost 2 controllers... so if u can change the place of it will be better
Love the new set up, Than. Wish I lived closer to see everything when you're done. Had a question for you: are you just running the single L2 on those frag tanks? I'm setting up a 130 frag system and was going to use a Varios 8 for a closed loop until I was told that DC pumps don't handle head pressure that well. First time setting up a closed loop so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
6:49 I dont understand why you decided to use so many 90 degree elbows on the pumps under the tanks... By just slightly move the pump and rotatate it 90 degress, no less than 3(!) of the elbows could get eliminated and a lot of unnecessary head pressure would be gained on each setup. The same applies to many other places on the pipings.
By design closed loops look good on paper, but how are you keeping your heating closed loop separated from your system like when you lose power and everything flows to the sump?
The closed loops are always separate. Tank water does not flow through them, but rather fresh water that just circulates through the PEX pipe. The heat only comes on a few min a day to heat the tank so in that sense it is almost always powered down.
What kind of tank supports are those? I mean the racks or table hehe call it whatever you want it seem very customizable and Im thinking of using it. Anyone knows how they are called ?
Michael Balsley it looks like 8020 aluminum extrusions. Probably one of the metric types since he mentioned using M8 screws. It comes in a variety of sizes and configurations in metric or imperial.
9:20 "leave the plastic shavings to replicate the ocean"
accurate and hilarious
I lost it. 😭
lol bad joke!
Than a savage 🤣
word
Yup. Came to comment about that. Sad but true
Your attention to detail is outstanding. I don't plan to ever build a large coral farm but I really enjoy watching your effort to make the day to day more enjoyable to your team and yourself.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!...........PHENOMENAL VIDEO!!........I was Freaking 💯 MESMERIZED!!...😱😱😳😳😳😊😊😊😁😁😁
Thanks For The "Nuts and Bolts" (WELL!..."PIPES AND PUMPS" Tour!!)...👍👍👍👍👍
Sean.
As I start up my business @CoralReefCay I have learned so much from watching your successes and failures throughout the years as well as everyone else. Hopefully one day I'll be profitable enough to be on this level. I will definitely be posting my progress videos here on youtube like you Than!
Wow I wish I could give this video two thumbs up. You have built a beautiful system sir!
This is so freaking awesome. I love all the planning. So intelligent. Congrats!
Hello Sir. Very awesome state of Art work in your Tidal Garden. Glad you went with Sch.80 pipe, if you get a leak you can weld the leak. Love the elbows work so clean a looks sweet. That guy that made the Rock is awesome can't wait to see live Coral on it. Also so people don't understand Volume first than to down in size. Love the intake you can move water more ways you want. I hope someday come up there an see ART at work. Please don't let people get to you, you at the best thing for us people want live marine life and let our Ocean SAFE. God Bless. Please think on having it Bless on Opening day. Thanks Greg of Ohio. Southwest of you
super clean install. Bravo to the master plumbers
Thank you! Very thorough! We will see you soon!
Even though I’m 3500 miles away so will never see it in person and still I can’t wait to see it finally up and running - it’s been an odyssey and a half for you Than, nearly at the finish line 🏁
A lot of things are lining up nicely from now until the end of the year so I'm just sitting back and enjoying it.
9500 miles away and hope to visit one day haha
I'm 20 miles away! Are visitors welcome?
Thing of beauty Than! Awesome!
Spears fittings are top notch.
Finally! Water is flowing! Its a threshold moment!! Outstanding!!
I'm loving it!
I know you are...congratulations Than..its well earned!
AMAZING!!! The planning and execution Than put in this building is so interesting and the execution is so clean. What a great work ethic. Video is perfect and so well done. Call me a Tidal Gardens fanboy.
If a coral farm could be a work of art this it it. The bar has been raised by all who follow .
Absolutely AWSOME 👍🏾👍🏾
Idk what to say that hasn’t been said... just simply beautifully functional design and craftsmanship. Your other video on your design choices was also great. Looking forward to more updates on the new building but I wouldn’t mind if you made us wait a bit to show us more coral videos as well. 👍👍
Looking awesome Than👍
That output of that closed loop would look great in a display tank!! Covering the pipe in rock. #ideas great video as usual.
Super impressive
Stunning facility! So well thought out and beautiful! Congratulations and well done!
insane building! you can clearly see how much thoughts gone in this setup..superb!
Your aqua system is absolutely amazing, looking forward to seeing your show tank I'm sure it will be absolutely mind blowing. Keep up your incredible work !!!
Spectacular... really amazing
What a system my hat goes off to you and the best to you and your huge undertaking
Heaven
Looking great! I'm so excited to checkout the new building. I live 5 minutes from you and I've been following these updates.. Wow. What an impressive setup. Can't wait to see it
Fantastic update and glad to see you are making good progress.
It’s been so awesome watching this whole thing come toegther.
Looking really amazing 😍😍😍
I’m so happy for you! So exciting!!! Damn the skills of your plumber is next-next-next-level
He's the G.O.A.T. I need to come see your tank again and do an update!
Looks amazing!
Why did you use schedule 80 instead of schedule 40 pvc pipe? Seems to me your pressures are not high enough to exceed the capacity of schedule 40. Great build by the way. Your geothermal temperature control system is unique and great.👍
That was so enjoyable to watch ,although I got a little behind, i managed to to sort of figure it all out! Very impressive system Wow!💜 I got a real kick out of when you said "Yes I am that Nutty" 🤣 didn't want to say anything 🤔 teasing it is perfect to be so neat and organized👍 can't wait to see how thing progress great job!😊💜💜💜🐠
Omg how awesome. This is so good to see. Thank you for all you do and for not letting things get you down. Awesome shirt btw😏
Thanks Becky! I try to stay pretty chill
Top notch presentation as usual,everything looks great 👍
Very impressive!
Congrats on getting water in there Than! What a journey.
👏👏👏 Bravo you are on a whole other level. Maybe one day I can get to that level of planning and design. Good job!!!
I'm very curious what kind of hassle/maintenance over long term will be, to me it look super solid and your design/choice are the same has I would do minus your experience.
You could make a rotation/spining thing with the return tube, from your closed loop, potential is here.
We have some but they are cheap and look like they would fail. Also vectra pumps have a closed loop mode where you can program them to do different flow patterns. Having said that we will probably just leave them at a set speed.
Congrats on getting water in the tanks! It's been a long time coming.
You obviously put a ton of thought into the plumbing. Question is why you chose an over the top return lone versus drilling into the tank from either the back or bottom?
Great vid! I'm surprised you didn't fit sweeping elbows on the 3inch drain section where you're planning on using a drain snake. I reckon you'll have problems getting it through that tight 90. Can't wait to see everything stocked!!!
Hopefully it wont be a huge deal. Just for fun I looked up the price of a 3" schedule 80 long sweep. Makes my eyes bleed.
@@tidalgardens I can imagine! What was the reason for going schedule 80 on everything? Just added peace of mind on how hardwaring the system needs to be? I guess you're about as industrial as it gets in the industry hehe! I check your channel every day just in case I've missed a notification!
I was thinking the same thing. That tight elbow is going to be a pain to get the snake past.
looking amazing! BRS did a video on if 90 elbows slow the flow. they found out it indeed does not. "plastic shavings to replicate the ocean" haha!!!!
There are some calculators out there for the flow loss, but even with the pump at the lowest setting we are getting decent flow. I don't see a situation where we would need a lot more flow, but if we did we can always upsize the pump to something even bigger.
Looks great! Now that you have water, have you started taking some humidity readings in the building? I wonder if there are guides/standards for say, x amount of water surface and x temperature equates to x rise in humidity? How will you handle ATO?
So nice!
Love the shirt bud👌very imformative video too
Great video, beautiful build! I heard you mention cleaning vertemid snails out of the plumbing in the future. I'm curious of your opinion, is that something you can prevent in your new system, through a heavy QT and frag remounting process? I'm trying to keep them out of my new frag system build now. Or, is it a reality pest and you just assume they will find their way in eventually. Thx!
That's a good question. We are actively trying to keep them out. We have the luxury of kicking stuff out as soon as we see it, so hopefully between QT and aggressive removal we won't have them show up.
Do you have any advice on vermetid snails? It sounds like you think these will be an inevitable fate for your new pristine tanks. If only there was an assassin sail specifically bred for eating these little buggers. By the way, you have done an amazing job and thanks for sharing!
I love it when ecotech comes to the party on these projects :) for a home reefer like me I just can’t afford them :( I know why you chose this lighting, but I wonder if ecotech wasn’t an option, what you would have gone for ? I just had one of my ecotech MP40s rust out, my older ones are fine, any concerns around all those vortechs ? I lost a couple colonies from the rust that dumped its guts into the tank, scary stuff as it did so between maintenance of 6 weeks.
Love it thank you👍
Love love love!!!!!!!
I’m 1 hour and 50 minutes away might have to stop by some time!
Sweet, love the attention to detail. It's a great playroom project.
What are you going to do with all your spare time when this is complete? 😜
Looks amazing. A case study in the right way to do this.
Everything looks great Than. Appreciate the update!
Awesome big money 👍
You are living a dream for reefers around the world.
I saw the air make up in the back but what about dehumidifiers ?
Just wondering .
For the winter the air exchangers can easily handle the humidity. They are surprisingly good at that as a matter of fact. We have them set to the lowest fan speed and the building is dry. Once we get into the humid spring and summer though we are going to rely on the air conditioning first. I have one 5-ton unit, but the line sets ready for a second 5-ton unit. If that is enough we will have to add dehumidification near the tanks.
I've heard microplastics are the new coral food. JK. Love all the info and how clean the new system looks
The attention to detail is really impressive, and it’s reminded me again about how bad the ergonomics are on my little reef 🙄
Yay!!! It looks great! So exciting
Its amazing how you really planned out even the smallest details. The 2yrs+ is all worth it
Love the 80/20 stands so versatile. Built one for my frag system and will never use another type of stand again...
Will you be installing any UV sterilizers since this is all new systems?
🍻 To the plumber.
Thanks one more time for sharing, such a nice and reflected setup! I would be worried a little bit about your overflow system / sump capacity: if you stop return pump (and there's only one), water level will go down up to level of main first overflow. With such long tanks, and you've got 4 right?, is the sump really big enough? Would suggest to consider one modification on these main overflows: use another tube on them, to reverse the intake not at the top but bottom, and little hole just under water level of the skimmer to deactivate the syphon. 2 benefits: taking water from bottom, and minimise diff between main and skimmer overflow, meaning less water going to the sump if return pump stop. What do you think? ;)
We are going to test it and install siphon breaks if necessary. That part is easy. The sump itself is huge. Around 500 gallons total.
very nice.. but i have some comments about the close loop controllers... its bad if you want to put it there, each time you are going to take corals or something there will be some water drops to the controllers and over time it will go inside and destroy it as it has been done for me and i lost 2 controllers... so if u can change the place of it will be better
What company did you use for your new drag tanks?
Than than he’s our man!!! If he can propagate no one can! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
That's was so awesome!!!👏
Love the new set up, Than. Wish I lived closer to see everything when you're done. Had a question for you: are you just running the single L2 on those frag tanks? I'm setting up a 130 frag system and was going to use a Varios 8 for a closed loop until I was told that DC pumps don't handle head pressure that well. First time setting up a closed loop so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
If you want to bend smaller diameter pipe up to 1” and don’t have access to a hot box, heat gun will work. Fill the pipe wth sand and heat and bend!
Fantastic "build"
6:49 I dont understand why you decided to use so many 90 degree elbows on the pumps under the tanks... By just slightly move the pump and rotatate it 90 degress, no less than 3(!) of the elbows could get eliminated and a lot of unnecessary head pressure would be gained on each setup. The same applies to many other places on the pipings.
By design closed loops look good on paper, but how are you keeping your heating closed loop separated from your system like when you lose power and everything flows to the sump?
The closed loops are always separate. Tank water does not flow through them, but rather fresh water that just circulates through the PEX pipe. The heat only comes on a few min a day to heat the tank so in that sense it is almost always powered down.
So awesome Than, what dreams are made of hey
Epic!
What kind of ball valves do you use?
Can you do a video on scroll or cup coral care?
I would love to hot box it with Dan 🤣
😍😍😍
What are those white tray liners called on the bottom of your stands? i need to find something like this
Those are custom made ABS trays by Aqua-Crylic
@@tidalgardens Thanks!!
Greeeat!
If than’s shirt were a coral what would it be called? Better yet what would that bad boy cost! 👌🏻
It's alive!
Dang, that overflow is soooo quiet even w/ a little tiny gurgle.
WOW!!!!
👊👍
I’m worried of the extra weight on the tank the abs shelves sit on.
Beautiful update mate but way too many ads.
You could collect the plastic shavings and use them in a PVC media reactor.
I would just double up on the unistrut so no fittings or hot boxing it, they make spring nuts for connecting unistrut to unistrut,
Looks Great, what kind of lights are above the tanks?
Radion pros with diffusers
What kind of tank supports are those? I mean the racks or table hehe call it whatever you want it seem very customizable and Im thinking of using it. Anyone knows how they are called ?
There's an earlier video where he shows how he built them from kits that he bought.
They are 80/20 aluminum t slot
Thank you both :)
Where is that salt water coming from?
What LEDs are those? They look great.
Those are ecotech radion pros with the optional diffusers
Awsome! Like a dream. 😉 replicate the ocean by leaving the scraps in... that was actually funny but the sad truth..
So what's the total cost of this new facility here? 1 mil $?
I totally don't want to think about it.
May I ask what are the frames for the tank stands and where might I be able to get them?
Michael Balsley it looks like 8020 aluminum extrusions. Probably one of the metric types since he mentioned using M8 screws. It comes in a variety of sizes and configurations in metric or imperial.
Likely Framing Tech www.framingtech.com/solutions/aquarium-stands/
It is 80/20 aluminum t-slot
Could you do flatened exaust PVC pipe to direct water flow?
I think you could do that with a hot box.
You're giving away your secrets my friend