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The left side of my reef suffers from sand movement. The ebb of the Vortech pump seems to pull the sand toward the pump, leaving a huge low spot at least a foot wide that coincidentally buries some corals on the left. It wasn't this bad at first, but something changed and it will move in a day instead of over a week's time. In this recent picture, you can see the big hole. Maybe I bumped up the flow rate, I'm not sure.

I took a couple of ...

Here's a great video shot by Dustin Adamson.

Right then.Float sensor stuck on due to little white snails.Ato thinks water is low in sump.Pumps ro water into system untill sump overflows dumping i"m guessing 20 gal onto basement floor.And the external skimmer pump.Then gfci for that room pops.No pwr to system for several hours.Thats what I discovered at 10:30 am.Scrambling all day doing damage control and cleanup.

I really like talking about this project but I'm going to do my best to keep this simple along the way. After failing to find the product I wanted last night and spending about an hour reading on my iphone I was able to find sealants and epoxy that will work. So I'm hoping to save the next guy some reading time.

Wood is cut. Need to coat it in something to waterproof it that’s reef safe.
First product I got is Bondo all-purpose fiberglass resin

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I've always loved mixed materials in buildings and designs. The last home my family built had dark, charcoal grey polished concrete floors. My room had light green walls and rich wood furniture. It was actually very calming. Since then I've played around with a few ideas. I built a concrete fish tank that functioned fine but didn’t come out perfect and I never had a second go at it since it was pretty hard to make. But let’s bring it forward to today. Plywood tanks. I've read up on all the ones ...