Aquabead 6 cubic foot installation part 5

Aquabead 6 cubic foot installation part 4 UV

Cutting a glued fitting off a proprietary UV fitting.  Risky and rarely works.

Sometimes things just work out.

Replacing the bulb in the Zapp Pure Stainless UV.

A close up for future reference.

Love it when things line up.  Just one more fitting.

Aquabead 6 cubic foot installation part 3

1/4 hp Wave pump with integrated leaf trap.

Fitting the system back together.  It was a year ago that I went and got this filter.  Thankfully I took a video of the system before I cut it up.

Reusing pipe can be cost effective but at times very frustrating.

Plumbing the midnight oil.

How does it go?

Aquabead 6 cubic foot installation part 2

The equipment pad.  The system was originally on two of these and I'm fitting in onto one.

The multiport valve.

Loctite silicone lubricant for the o-rings.

Multiport valve O-ring.

Mounted.

Aquabead 6 cubic foot installation part 1

Removed the top to check the strainers and beads.

6 cubic feet of beads.  Each cubic foot is rated for 50 pounds of fish.

A scoop of beads.

About to wrestle it into place between the tank and the shed.

A look at the sludge valve.

Bristol Shubunkin (Parker x Wolfe) 6/11/11

Bristol Shubunkin (Parker x Wolf) 6/11/11 spawn.

Raised in a 100 gallon Rubbermaid.

Sorting.

Side view

Top view

Close up

Goldfish: "Fort Knox"

Albino Telescope Goldfish

At a Local Fish Store.

Matsuyama x Itoh 6/11

Caught all but one in a single scoop.  A couple got caught on the net.

In some clean water.

Here they are in their new winter home.

Itoh and Hattori (Hater) '10

Doing a water change.  The tank is currently draining out the center of the tank.

Itoh and Hattori (Hater) 10

Itoh and Hattori (Hater) 2010.  Spent the summer in a 4x4 fiberglass tub.  Moved to a hatchery tank for the winter.  The water is currently draining from the tank.

Blue Tubs Removed

Draining the system.  A nice batch of Bristol (Parker) Spawn 2 came out of this tub.

Itoh and Hattori in the corner.

Blue Egg Phoenix and Bristol mutants in the left tank.

Moving out.

Site resurfaced with 1/4" #10 gravel.  Two Large Laguna tubs will move back in here.

Hatchery Tanks Completed

See the whole project here.

Completed Hatchery Tank

2" x 3/4" Recirc Supply.  1/2" x 1/8th" Air.

Ready for fish.

Supply Valve.

2" Primary Standpipe.

6" secondary standpipe.  Itoh and Hattori (Hater) '10.

The drain infrastructure.

See the whole project here.

Blue egg Phoenix (Lyons) 6/10 and brstol shubunkin mutants

The Blue Egg Phoenix are my outside population.  Much smaller than the inside fish but have been outside since they were out of their nursery tank.