I am really sorry about the broken tank, that sucks.......
Today was day that was supposed to be easy and go with no issues.... that did not happen. So I woke up at breakfest with the family and decided since I had no pending tasks for the day I was going to fill my tank with water. So drove to Lowes to get a large 50gallon container and to 5gallon pails. That was the easy part of the day. So drove to LFS to get RO water, my system is on order.
So I get there have them pump the water from their system into the the back of my Sprinter. Filled the two pails and drove home to transfer to my tank. I work with different style air pumps so I figured I could hook up a pump and pump the water into my house. So I set up the compressor and started pumping, half through the bin my compressor piston snapped. So I decided to use nitrogen power instead, well apparently I did not refill the tank after use, got 1/4 more of the water into my tank. So decided to do the rest with five gallon pails.
Went back to LFS borrowed four 6 gallon buckets for RO. Went home and dumped all buckets into my tank.... three trips later tank and sump are full. Tested pump to find return hose to be leaking. Attempted to repair it for four hours with nothing but failure.:frustrat:
Went back to Lowes to change entire return system around more money into the tank. Got back home swapped out return system with new stuff, leak checked and no leaks. THANK GOD:D
Connected all wiring minus FUGE lighting, and turned my tank on. So far so good, no more leaks that I have found. So the next step Live Rock and Live Sand, but as Promised here are some photos.
Here is the Tank Full of water with no light, cant even tell its full
Here is the sump running like a charm, no valves were needed to control flow
Here is shot with lights
Thanks for looking and thank you everyone for helping me with set up ideas
