Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JeffroM on January 23, 2013, 05:31:37 PM
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Regalblue is planning on coming over Saturday (Jan 26) early evening to help work on my fish room. At that point it should be in a position to turn the water on and see if my drip system works. So I figured I would invite anyone that wanted to come see if it works or if my fish room will just be a big pool of water.
I figure I'll buy some pizza and beer too. Stop by around 7pm.
I live basically at Duck Lake road & Cooley Lake road in Commerce, MI. PM me if you plan to come and I'll send you my address and phone number.
JeffroM
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When I read the title, i thought you were telling people that water "turned you on" LOL
Do you have any tanks to fill?
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~Beer? I'm in!!!
~Pizza? I'm in, especially if it has BACON on it!!!!
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I wound like to check it out.
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I definitely hope to make it over...knee surgery is two days later...I won't be able to get down the stairs for a few months if I can't make it Saturday :(
I think I'll wear my chest waders just in case ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I think I'll wear my chest waders just in case ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Probably a smart idea! If they made waders in my size I'd probably be wearing some.
I don't have the tanks yet. I ordered most of them and they are scheduled to be delivered 2/1/13. This is simply to turn a couple valves and see what happens. Hopefully it will be a collective "That's it???", but most likely its going to be a "OH *&^%! TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" followed by a few repairs and trying again.
Stan - your more than welcome to come out!
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Jeff
If its ok with you I will come over when the tanks come in and I will bring the boys to help out in any way we can :)
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I have to work :'(
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Jeff
If its ok with you I will come over when the tanks come in and I will bring the boys to help out in any way we can :)
Sounds like a plan. :) On Sat. 2/2 I plan on building racks, moving tanks from garage to basement, painting tanks, installing bulk heads, etc. etc. Probably won't get to all of that on Saturday but will start on it at least.
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If you need some help I dont work in the winter so if you need help just ask for the second ( I`m come to your turn on party but I have my nephew this weekend) ... he thinks my fish are stupid..you know they arn`t electronic
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If you need some help I dont work in the winter so if you need help just ask for the second ( I`m come to your turn on party but I have my nephew this weekend) ... he thinks my fish are stupid..you know they arn`t electronic
I won't turn down any help! Thanks!
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I won't be making the trip this time, but once it gets closer to completion I'll be sure to check it out.
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how did it go? wish i could have made it,But had to work and got home late :(
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Are you swimming with the mermaids now?
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Are you swimming with the mermaids now?
Even though I had my chest waders on, I am still much shorter than Jeff and Blair so once the water almost reached the top of my waders, I had to climb up the stairs and go home...I sure hope those two are okay :o :o :o :o
p.s. It is now almost 12:30am (Sunday) and I am just getting started with setting up the 180g for my herd of Clown Loaches....looks like another all-night adventure ::)
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Didn't go well, but not a complete loss. Turning on the water resulted in leaks at the first connection after the valves for both hot and cold waters. This required cutting some of the initial PVC out and redoing it. Had to go to Home Depot for new fittings. Got that fixed then there was a very very minor leak at the first water filter. That was able to be fixed without major effort. So the water is working up to sprinkler solenoid valves.
We had significant issues installing the drip emitters into the water lines. I think Lowes sold me the wrong type of water lines to use with drip emitters, but will require some research to figure this out.
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We had significant issues installing the drip emitters into the water lines. I think Lowes sold me the wrong type of water lines to use with drip emitters, but will require some research to figure this out.
I just used pex tubing for my drip emitter. I want to say it was a little smaller than 3/16" diameter. Since the tubing is so small I used some small zip ties as hose clamps, not sure how effect that works as hose clamps, but it doesn't leak. I also run a pressure regulator on mine to drop it down from 60psi to 20psi, as the site I got mine from said this was recommended.
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I used 1/2" Pex as recommended by Lowes. There is NO WAY to use the drip emitter hole punch as instructed. We tried drilling but the holes where always too large or the drip emitter wouldn't fit in the Pex without busting first. Tony gave me a good idea 15 minutes ago - use a heat gun on the Pex and then punch the hole and put the drip emitter in. I'll try that later this week.
The pressure regulators I purchased came from Jehmco and take water pressure down to 30 PSI. I think that is too much still but Jehmco says that is what I need. Chris Benes (Pet Suppliers) said he uses pressure regulator intended for boilers that goes down to 15 PSI - that sounds more like it to me.
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Check out http://www.dripworks.com/ for info.
Have bought a lot of fittings for other things from them but have never set up a drip system just a water changer using sprinkler timers.
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The advice from the guys at lowes probably works for what most people use drip emitters for because it is normally in a garden or underground. I only run one emitter for water change on my turtle tank, so it makes it a little easier. I think if I was going to setup a room I would look into running rigid pvc, using threaded T's with threaded barb fittings and running individual pex lines to each tank. With that method though you would probably have to have a ball valve at every connection, and would probably get expensive quick.
I agree with jimbob about looking at a drip site, not sure if this one is any different, but this is where I got my stuff. http://www.dripirrigation.com/ (http://www.dripirrigation.com/)
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I wouldn't expect anyone working for a large store to offer any great knowledge. Unfortunately the way things have developed, people working for chain stores tend to know little about what they actually sell.
For the pressure regulator, why not use a variable one? The impression I've got is that you don't have the ability to regulate from a variety of pressures yourself. I did a DIY sprayer this past spring and found one at TSC - you just need to get gauge with it as well so you know what the pressure is actually at.
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Hey Jeff, the only thing I want to know is did Blair get soaking wet?
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Sorry to disappoint you Ryan, but No I did not. I made sure to stand back.;)
The leaking wasn't catastrophic or anything....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McLIUy6Z9E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Sorry to disappoint you Ryan, but No I did not. I made sure to stand back.;)
The leaking wasn't catastrophic or anything....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McLIUy6Z9E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Did Jeff at least get wet? Lol
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Sorry to disappoint you Ryan, but No I did not. I made sure to stand back.;)
The leaking wasn't catastrophic or anything....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McLIUy6Z9E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
LOL
"I dont think it's supposed to do that"