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ok, so its up and running,
can anyone use any of this mesh type stuff? i get tons of it at work, i'll mail it to you if you need a couple pieces
GRRRRRRRR.............
ALL BETTER
an after shot
and here it is, a work in progress. the 2 coralias will go...
I like this and will go this route. I have a black sand in the tank that we likes and I paid small fortune for.
Times have, but money is tight, 2 kids with braces payments and lacrosse habits absorbs most spare coin.
Thank you all for the help. Mods can lock or delete if they like
so these are the before pics
man i collected alot of crap under that stand over 10 years!!! :wildone:
what is it? found a couple of them in the sand :reading:
what the heck is this blue slime? was on the bottom of a couple of rocks :eek2:
couple barnacles i think that took...
ok, so im changing out my tank today, all is going good, im taking out the sand, and man is it beyond loaded with crap!!!!
i was trying to rinse it a bit as i was taking it out, i drained the rest of the water, prob about 10-15 gal, and this is whats on the bottom!!!
this was not a deep sand...
leak tested tank today, all is good.
***note, DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN BULKHEADS!!!!***
hand tight is fine, as per the instructions. im a believer of "torque = tighten till spins freely" no good, gaskets squished out, all is good now.
testing my $50 esshops 150s cone skimmer
99 gallons of new...
whats wrong with a blue hippo tang? ours is the second fish we ever bought, lived thru a salt spike of 1.039, power outages, kid feeding cheerios to the fish,
and some other thingsi i cant remember, just swims and swims
well, got home from a day trip to the ohiblow river, echhh, and got some tank time,
got the overflow box drilled,
got it mounted and siliconed in
all bulkheads in, and cheesey lfs backround applied (if you need to know y, then you can ask her, i hate it)
these are...
hey, sorry again bud, im still sitting in the airport waiting on my flight.
im a marine electrical engineer, and when a ship is broke, we gots to go fix it.
maybe next time, thanks again
Hey tony, yes the makita is a great
Tool. I have the impact gun and radio too. That came back strong.
Blows dewalt outa the water.
I'm going to run a bead of shipwrecked supplied silicone around the perimeter
Of the box and just around the holes where they meet the glass to keep water from...
well, i gota send Kudos out to the cats at glass holes, i placed my order on Feb 23rd for 3 1 inch bulkheads and 6 3/4" bulkheads, some of that flexi black ball return pipe, and the diamond hole saws, wholy bejesus!!!! the box came today at the office!!!!
get this, i open it up, utterly amazed...
next time to build my bean animal ohio river to colorado river. (ive heard of the coast to coast beans, going from side to side, well i m only going 24" across the back center, so ohio to colorado it is)
i did the 24" box, as im going to drill in 2 return on either side of it for the return...