On the above plan,the same fittings i draw at the right side,go to the left side too...The circles next to the drawing,mark the places of the powerheads...
But it wasnt that easy...When i place all the fitting i needed to have on the small sides and measured them,i found out that they were longer than the small sides of my tank...So,i needed to make them fit someway...So,i thought of cutting 0,5cm from each side of each fitting and doing some maths before doing it,it would make the plan feasible...And so i did and everything went ok...I marked the fittings that would be used for the small sides and cutted them with the Dremmel and then made them smooth with a sanding tool of the Dremel again...Then,i cutted the small pieces of pvc pipes for between the fittings...So here are the small sides,test fitted...

These two were the difficult and very tiring part of the job...They took me hours to make them...
That evening,the South American woods i had ordered this January finally came!!!!!!!

They were all great!!!More on that along with a photo a bit later...
Later that evening,Andrew from Hydrocosmos came and broght the overflow,sump,holding tank and tank hoods and installed the overflow hoses...There arent photos of the proccess as i was helping a bit there...
The overflow finaly fitted!!!Even this time,it took as a lot of time to install it as the o-rings were pushing the overflow out and also there is nowhere to hold the pipes that stik out of the overflow from so that they dont go in again and make screwing the elbows almost impossible,especially with the teflon...
The teflon used...Its very wide...
Tank covers and leftover hose from making the overflow piping...It says that its ducting pipe and that really bothers me...

He says its safe and he was the one who bought it for my tank...What do you think?Is it safe?I am really concerned as not all plastic is drinking water safe and this one doesnt say anything about that...Its made for air anyway,not for water so there was no single chance that it would say something like that...

What would you do?Would you use it or change it?
Now,on the woods...

I used three of the woods that came...The first was a really big and heavy piece,measuring 160-70-80cm(lenght,height,width).The wood maust weighted at least 80-90kg...

We managed to put it in the tank(breaking the upper front and side formaica a bit

and we saw what we should cut to make it fit...So we cutted one branch firstly withy a saw and then broke it so that it looks natural and the wood was ready...We putted it in again with no further damage to the formaicas and then we cutted a small protruding part of the wood that would not let the inner covers close...Then we fitted two more smaller woods,about 25 and 40kg respectively...And here is the end result...
Now,continuing with the pvcs and to make a long story short,i followed the plan letting the fittings for the other parts of the pvc network were size wasnt an issue,at their original size...Here are the small sides finished...Only glue is missing but i want put glue till i test fit them in the tank and make sure everything is ok...But i will first finish with the slates and then glue the pvcs...
This is my progress till now...The only other ting i have done is that i have put all the slates out of the boxes and have found the pieces i will use for the caves and the slate building...I will take photos when i return home as i am on vacations now...I had uploaded all the photos i hadnt posted before i go so than i could post them from an internet cafe
Hope you liked it!!!
