Thanks Carmie and I do like the rock. Its kinda weird though because as soon as I took the pics, I put the rocks back in the box and out to the garage. I want to take my time and avoid all the mistakes I made on the 120!!
I will need another 60lbs. but with the cost,,,I can handle it!! I was thinking today that I got 60 lbs. of rock for 143 bucks and if I got it from the LFS, It would have cost like 420 bucks. Thats a huge difference. I can handle not having coraline algae on the rock when it hits the water!!!
The next thing to look at is this greatstuff foam spray. I show this tank build thread the other day and the owner used this foam spray against the left side glass to hide the intakes for the CL.. In than painted it to much the LR he was using. The idea of painting the foam was to make it look ok until the coraline algae started growing over it. Anybody here have any experience using this stuff??? I thought I could use it to hide the overflow and the intake for the cl. All though I have not decided where the intake is going but if I put it on the back wall,,I fell like I can hide it better using this and LR.
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Far from worked out bud, 10years- its alot to untwine!
Big tanks mean more costs, & Im already taxed for the war in france, no wait.... i watched braveheart last night so i'll retract that statement!
How bout i bring my whopping great big fish to work, & assimulate everything i have running into a new 600lt for home - will that be enough to quench your appettite ?
Im selling all but 1 of my cars soon so maybe, just maybe i can re-dirrect some funds into the aquatic field!
No big changes as of late but have been playing with the marcorocks. Layed it out and am very surprised by how little 60 lbs. went. I need at least 60lbs. more and I still want two BIG pieces to go in front of these rocks
You've done a lot of work there so far Mr. T. Starting to take shape, looking good. I know about the LR, it never ever goes as far as one thinks it will. I think the weight always gets you fooled into thinking there's more there onstead of actual volume, surface area.
no big changes still but have gotten my barracuda pump for the closed loop. This thing is a beast!!! Hoping for tons of flow!!!! Couple pics of the BEAST
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120 gallon mixed reef Tank, 90 gallon Frag/grow out tank, and 100 gallon sump &
The birth of the 150
Hubby and I will be watching your thread, as it progresses. We're building a reef system here; tank on order, but have been doing lots of prep in the area of frag,fuge, sump, etc.
Are you retro-fitting your sump, etc to accomodate your new tank?
Thanks for the comments!! and thanks for letting my thread be your first here too!!!
I don't think I would call it retro-fitting the sump because really all I'm doing is increasing the display tank size. The sump doesn't really need any changing to fit the 30 extra gallons. Now, I would like to change a couple small things in the sump but if that doesn't happen no big deal really. The thing I would change would be maybe some mangroves in the fuge and a deeper sandbed in the fuge. I have thought of adding a RSB, but will just wait and see.
Next big ticket item will be the ocean motions 4-way and than on to plumbing!!!!
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