waack's 150 gal discus tank.

**waack** · 02-15-2013, 11:12 AM

Photos of come of the bean animal, startup , running and simulated power outage. Sorry about the photos I didn't realise how blurry they were. Also i might add not the final location of the tank obviously. Just running the system to check it all works and check the new tank for leaks before i move it inside.

**Cermet** · 02-15-2013, 12:30 PM

Not an issue - they are good pics because they show what you have done.

**waack** · 02-15-2013, 12:43 PM

Here a a few videos of the bean animal during the three main stages off operation. The best to demonstrate the bean animal are the last 2. The first one is really just showing that I won't be flooding my house.

A turning off, such as a power failure or during maintenance.

During normal operation. The start of the video shows that NO air is running through the pipes, any air seen coming out of the left tube is only because it's only been running a few minutes and is still flushing the remaining air, no air exits the middle tube because the flow is so little that there isn't enough force to push air out. You can also see how much water is running through this system when I raise the return out of the water.

And finally during start up, this video shows that the tank level increases above the normal level, until the full siphon starts. It also shows the fact that with air running through the pipes even both would not be able to handle the flow but, after the siphon starts there is actually very little water running in the middle.

**Cliff** · 02-15-2013, 01:06 PM

Only your second video worked for me. Each time I tried to view the first and third videos I message stating "this video is marked as private", or, "this video is unavalable".

**waack** · 02-15-2013, 01:17 PM

My Apologies fixed the first one, the third one is still uploading and will be available in 15 minutes

**waack** · 02-23-2013, 05:43 AM

Tank and stand inside and all setup now. Plumbing all done and tight and not leaking. Startup works perfect which I'm surprised at, (hadn't tested it with full length plumbing), I was expecting some tweaking. Tank is running through now trying to clear it up a bit.

Yes I did wash the gravel, obviously not enough, 4 hours in and I am starting to see some of the driftwood i put in, which i couldn't before so hopefully not too long left.