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  1. Challenge accepted!

    Two big sumps had to ship this week, requiring that they be crated and shipped Fedex Freight. To keep costs reasonable, I had to load these up in my trailer one at a time and drive them to Fedex Freight myself, rather than have a truck pick up at my location. They add charges if you need a lift gate, if you need a fork lift, if you are in a residential area, etc. My trailer has always been useful, back when I was cleaning floors, as well as during my carpentry days... plus all the remodeling ...
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  2. Another big sump gone

    I ship a lot of sumps, but the ones that need to be crated seem to be more important, so I'm sharing.

    This one is made with 3/8" cast acrylic, and is 48" x 24" x 16". It's a tough sump. This is the front of the sump. It will be installed in a basement with the refugium side up against a wall.



    The three zoned sump provides both a skimmer section, a long refugium zone, and a large return ...
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  3. Dakuwaqa's Garden - Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga

    Uploaded by bubblevision on Oct 4, 2011

    Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific.




    This video showed up in my newsfeed on facebook today, and I had to share it with y'all. And if you want to know what's ...
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  4. Ecotech Radion TIR lens upgrade and full install

    I was up at my LFS tonight, and he was ready to install his brand new Radions into the canopy fixture. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to play with these for a bit, and took pictures with my iPhone4 as time allowed. Two days ago, i posted on our Facebook/reefaddicts wall that Ecotech released information to upgrade the current LED reflector with their new TIR lens. Frank had a bag of these lens already, so I offered to swap out a pair to see what was involved. Initially I figured you had ...

    Updated 08-12-2012 at 02:20 AM by melev

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  5. A fellow DFWMAS member's reef tank is coming together

    Here's a nice tank to keep an eye on. Michael's a DFWMAS member, and has really paid attention to detail with his new setup. Click the image for a larger size.

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    Under the tank, the acrylic work was done by Melev's Reef.

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    You can see MBSL55's build thread here:http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtop...?f=100&t=99413

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    Updated 10-10-2012 at 01:59 AM by melev

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