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I have a lengthy post on aquarium forum, I will post here too though 
The tank is 30” deep, 36” tall, and 83” wide. The viewing window is 72x30 with 3” inside plywood.
i used 10 gallons of epoxy to line the inside of the aquarium and used a few types of pigment in the epoxy.
its bottom drilled with 2-2” pvc returns, and a 1-1/2” pvc supply. The sump is in my basement and the tank in my theater room.
my “sump” is not 100% complete, but will post what it “will” be shortly, I’m just waiting on my pond armor and epoxy to seal my cistern.
the return goes from the tank and back about 40’ to the back of my basement where it goes into a “breakout tank” which is a 40g breeder, then it flows into another 40g breeder filled with poly, from there it goes to my cistern which is 7.5’ x 6’ and filled to 6’ water level to give me room for a failure of some sort. Cistern will have 10 cu ft of k1, and I hope my cor20 will be able to supply enough. I am going to have a 400gph alpine pump to fluidize the k1.
i have a 16” pool pump that will be filled with a few pounds of pool filter balls, and as much purigen as I can fit in the strainer pot.
another pump takes water through my softener resin vessel which has 4 cubic feet of carbon.
will have another pump going parallel through 5- 5micron whole house filters.
still need to figure out which pump I will use to feed my 100 watt uv.
i am still debating on a bubble system for the cistern or not…
the whole system will have auto drain and ato, I have an ro system that will do around 4k gallons a day, it’s at about 20% waste water but I get between 3-6 tds from it.
I use an apex for my automation and that will make water changes a breeze.
the water heater will be through my boiler system for my hydronic heat and be inline with my supply to the discus tank.
future expansion will be another 400 gallon for large fish/stingrays that will sit over a 125 gallon on the floor that will house a turtle. Everything will utilize the same sump system.
all of my electric will run on an inverter system with solar panels with auto shore power backup.
The tank is 30” deep, 36” tall, and 83” wide. The viewing window is 72x30 with 3” inside plywood.
i used 10 gallons of epoxy to line the inside of the aquarium and used a few types of pigment in the epoxy.
its bottom drilled with 2-2” pvc returns, and a 1-1/2” pvc supply. The sump is in my basement and the tank in my theater room.
my “sump” is not 100% complete, but will post what it “will” be shortly, I’m just waiting on my pond armor and epoxy to seal my cistern.
the return goes from the tank and back about 40’ to the back of my basement where it goes into a “breakout tank” which is a 40g breeder, then it flows into another 40g breeder filled with poly, from there it goes to my cistern which is 7.5’ x 6’ and filled to 6’ water level to give me room for a failure of some sort. Cistern will have 10 cu ft of k1, and I hope my cor20 will be able to supply enough. I am going to have a 400gph alpine pump to fluidize the k1.
i have a 16” pool pump that will be filled with a few pounds of pool filter balls, and as much purigen as I can fit in the strainer pot.
another pump takes water through my softener resin vessel which has 4 cubic feet of carbon.
will have another pump going parallel through 5- 5micron whole house filters.
still need to figure out which pump I will use to feed my 100 watt uv.
i am still debating on a bubble system for the cistern or not…
the whole system will have auto drain and ato, I have an ro system that will do around 4k gallons a day, it’s at about 20% waste water but I get between 3-6 tds from it.
I use an apex for my automation and that will make water changes a breeze.
the water heater will be through my boiler system for my hydronic heat and be inline with my supply to the discus tank.
future expansion will be another 400 gallon for large fish/stingrays that will sit over a 125 gallon on the floor that will house a turtle. Everything will utilize the same sump system.
all of my electric will run on an inverter system with solar panels with auto shore power backup.
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