I don't know how logistically this is going to work.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Yo, what's up, guys, it's Queen of Reef here
And today
I'm going to plumb the Waterbox 220
with the help of David, here's David,
he's going to help me because I don't know anything about plumbing.
Hopefully it goes over smoothly. I don't know.
What do you think David is going to go
over smoothly?
It should go pretty smoothly.
So let's hope for the best, y'all. I don't know.
It should be pretty easy.
I've heard Waterbox is kind of like plug and play.
It's not a, you know, crazy customized plumbing or anything.
So hopefully everything should be fine.
Oh, no, no, no.
Hopefully
we've got our parts here.
Unfortunately, we lost the instructions, didn't we, David?
I don't know, I hope your aquarium knowledge is pretty great.
Yeah.
I don't even know what I'm looking at.
David, what am I looking at?
All right.
We have some check valves. We have an intake.
We have some return.
We have a oh you have a gate valve here.
What is what is that most likely goes to the return pump.
The return pump is my guess because from the return pump back to the tank.
And if my guess is right,
I'm hoping it is because otherwise because we have a couple I forgot the name of these things
OK, well,
considering
I don't even know where to start, I guess this is David's video.
This is a team effort and I'm going to have her
at least putting these one to two PVCs together.
We're going to learn together it's a learning process and we're going to be a team.
Well, team buddy, where do we begin? Where
do we begin?
Walk me through the sump what do we got going on here?
So it looks like what we have here is we
have two chambers right here for the filter socks, OK?
That's where the water in the tank is going to enter the sump.
We're going to have, of course,
the back looks like to be the skimmer section
we actually have the filter socks right here.
which we should probably take out
We've got a 225
We've got a mesh micron mesh filter.
So that one actually will work perfectly
Put them both in each different chambers for the sump return.
And then we'll also have the refugium
and skimmer section in the very last one will be the return for the return pump.
that will pump the water back into the tank.
First things first.
Let's see if we have the removable baffle right here.
This can go back and forth.
You can expand the chamber, make it smaller whether you want to keep
a skimmer by itself or you want to add the refugium and the skimmer combined
Stephanie's going to have a little bit of both.
She's going to have the skimmer
and the refugium plenty of chaeto
plenty of microalgae to absorb
any additional nitrates, phosphates, anything additional in the tank
Manual!
He found the manual.
It was just in here.
Crisis averted. We have the manual.
This is the cabinet manual, not that flimsy piece of paper we used.
This is actually detailed
Are you serious?
Yeah.
So you're saying
this might have been
more helpful than the printed copy in the box.
Are you serious? Did we really.
All right.
So we have our filter socks are baffles in there of course.
Our core sponge is already inserted inside the sump
So that's good to go.
Convenient, very convenient
Always enlist people to do the dirty work.
I love this.
I have separated everything from top to bottom.
So what we see right here, you're going to have the sump
the bottom underneath the stand plumbing and the above the stand.
This is going to be for the overflow this going to be the return above that's going
to come out of the overflow in the Waterbox.
I feel like we can do it.
This is gonna take a little bit
of teamwork because someone's going to be on top.
Someone's going to be on the bottom.
I'll be up top.
You'll be up top. I'll screw from the bottom.
And that should give a really good
connection for both plumbing, since a lot of the plumbing is already pre-glued
As you can see in some of the joints, they're already been pre-glued all set.
So really, it's plug and play.
Plug and play.
That's what I like to hear.
All right.
So instruct me on this.
Do you have any
I forgot the word for it,
the pipe thing that goes around the white that wraps around
the the the the
it goes the pipe.
It goes on threading thread, sealer thread.
It's white, it's little thing.
And it comes and it goes around and it
makes a perfect seal to make sure it's perfect.
Don't say
Ugh
Are my spirit fingers helping?
Like plumbing tape?
Yes.
Plumbing tape, that stuff
We may have some in
we need some
in the garage
because there are a lot of threads here and we have no plumbing tape.
Let's check in the garage to see if we have some plumbing tape.
Reef Mama and her engineer self
Hard to believe there's no plumbing tape.
You have a machete.
Don't ask
Maybe it's in the junk drawer
haha. Is this it?
Does this look like plumbers tape to you?
Is this plumbers tape?
Not that I'm not the one used to
Its like kind of gross but
do not handle below 10 degrees.
Why is it sticky?
Oh it's UL
UL rated this is electrical tape.
So for if we were electrical
I found it!
It's even more sticky though
Thicker electrical tape.
Why do we have so much electrical tape?
Not a plumber but she sure is an electrician
what are we going Bao Bao what are we going to do
Is this plumbing tape?
That's duct tape.
I thought,
Plumbers tape
Plumber tape not sticky, comes right off
Let's get this protective tape off.
This is sticky.
Now, let's just show you on a small scale
what the plumber's tape is going to be like, so the threads look pretty perfect.
They're deep, deep threads.
So they're not going to leak very much or at all.
But the plumbing is just going to be a safety precaution just to make sure
that anything that's tightened in there is going to be 100 percent sealed.
So when we turn the water on, safety factors goes up tremendously.
Pull the plumber's tape out and what
you're going to have to wrap around the threads.
So it's going to compress. Use your thumb.
Otherwise it might slip off and you can compress it right on.
There we go.
And then, of course, you just break it off
with your thumb, push it in and you're going to have a nice seal like so
and put for this one.
You can kind of see this one's going to go right into the sump area.
That's going to be for a reactor.
You have your valve, you can increase or decrease the flow.
And when this goes in,
anything that's offset those little threads, if there are any imperfections,
they will take care of them and seal it up properly.
And now we have, of course,
we can move it.
We're going to, of course, tightened up a little bit more is a little
O ring is going to compress it just in case.
Just an extra added benefit of additional safety.
Well what it looks like, guys,
you have the saran wrap and right below is going to have this O ring in here.
Do not lose the O ring.
This is going to create the seal between
connecting parts, which is why Waterbox compressed it underneath this saran wrap.
So take it off
When you're actually installing the part, don't take it off until then.
Otherwise you risk losing that O ring.
OK, let's install the very first one.
That's removing the protective seal to lose that ring.
Don't lose that O ring, don't lose it.
This is going up top.
And Stephanie, you are going to have
to get into the tank and hold this bad boy in while I screw in from the bottom.
I get to sit in the tank again guys!
I need a ladder
Let me give you a boost.
I don't think I don't trust a boost.
I'm scared of heights.
No
What am I doing now up here
shove this through the hole and you're going to screw from the top.
I'm on the bottom
I shove through the hole
You shove the hole you take and I get on get on top
and I screw it as hard as I can
and there's three holes.
Make sure you put it in the left hole.
You stick it in the wrong hole, things happen
OK, is there really three holes or was that just, you know,
no there are three holes
Oh, there you are
Screw me
OK, hold on i'm screwing
Give it a nice hard twist at the end use that Kung Fu grip.
Yeah, we got the first part screwed in now.
Very nice. Very nice and tight with my kung fu grip.
Look at that.
What are you doing down there, bud?
I am adding the plumber's tape around
the threads of the next screw that's going to go in for the overflow.
Just so we hace a nice,
Tight seal.
You ready to screw from the top?
I'm ready to screw it. Nice and tight.
All right. What is this?
What is this?
Is a time to take off
the plastic or am I am I going to lose this O ring?
Oh, this thing is like, on, really tight.
I'm like messing this up so badly.
It fell off
Ok let's make sure that O ring is in there
Nice and tight.
Beautiful. I got the O ring back.
So are we ready for screw job number two?
I am
OK. I'm waiting.
I have to nothing to screw
Here we go.
Here you are, the kung fu grip. I think we're good.
What do you think guys? That is good.
Last one!
I feel like being watched like I'm like I'm
in trouble and I'm like, you are if you don't do that plumbing right
I'm going to get the Machete out
this little one is in going to be shoved in the third hole,
It's the last one.
Does this have another O ring that I'm going to lose again?
Oh, no, the O ring. There she goes.
I snipped the O ring.
I cut the O ring
Time to order another tank.
Got it!
O ring still intact this time.
So there's a plug right here and it's optional.
So you to put these on later for reactors or not.
like forever?
Is this a permanent decision?
No, it's just better to take care of it now
Well, what kind of reactors are we talking about?
If you want to put a carbon reactor
phosphate reactor, you could put a biopallet reactor but you don't need one
Technically,
any kind of reactor in general, a chaeto reactor
or we can put it on and keep the valves closed so if you ever want to open them up and use them, they're there
OK, let's do that.
And this is going to in the bottom
of the tank, these two of the reactors to them on, off, off and on.
And this is you basically put some tubing
pop it on there and you go right on the reactor and then some.
And this right here will be for this guy when we get the return pump on there.
Yeah.
Alright, are you ready?
Yes.
I can't get it to fit
Oh because you weren't in there!
Wow.
Where are you?
There you are.
Woo! We got it!
Here is the finished product, isn't she beautiful didn't I do
such a good plumbing job.
Hit me up if you need your plumbing done.
Shove it.
So you have options.
Options again, more?
Let's see we have a flow accelerator.
and then just a crimp nozzle.
So you have either way the flat nozzle or the flow accelerator
accelerators, of course, increase a little bit more flow going throughout the valve.
Flow accelerator.
if we take and screw them into each side of the overflow where those little holes are
yes, it's done
But you're just doing this, this doesn't work
These spin
Wait I never even spinned it, it just?
No, you were just spinning the nozzle like this
And now you can aim them in every direction.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's solid glass.
Looks really nice.
Wow.
And it's heavy.
That's a solid piece.
That's beautiful.
Now that is a sexy overflow if I ever did see one.
Very nice.
What was that?
Waterbox filter socks
Aw it's a little short and stubby guy.
One two
And then cut, cut to the next scene
Take the brunt of the fall.
No, that's not going to work.
I'm literally going to have to jump on you.
I think you should.
Yes, you can jump out put your hands on my shoulders.
I'm scared. I'm scared.
I'm so scared right npw
I can't get off i'm too short
Should we just leave her in the tank?
They ask you, how are you to say that you're fine.
You're not really fine.
You just can't get it done because they would never understand.
Don't laugh it's not funny.
I can't even give myself a ladder.
What, are you just going to keep me here for fun?
I don't know how you're planning on. I don't know.
What am I supposed to jump on you like.
I don't know how logistically this is going to work.
Oh, we could do a piggyback, OK.
Oh, good. OK.
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
That's not going to work.
That was so freaking scary.
That was not part of what I signed up for.
I don't know how I'm going to clean this thing.
Knowing him, knowing him, he would have kept me in there.
It was your new living space.
Eddie, your hindsight is 20/20.
I almost got stuck in the tank forever in this video, so thanks.
And right.
I'm definitely going to abuse this as much as I can.
And when in doubt, call Reef Mama, Reef Mama always saves the day.
Help me to convince her to join more
videos in the comments section of this video, y'all.
I'll make a PowerPoint compilation for her.
You know, maybe she'll join us next time.