DIY projects

The leg tank came in earlier this week, but when we went to pick it up, they couldn't find it. They were really nice about the whole thing, they offered us a couple of fittings/valves/etc. for free as an apology. Friday they said they found it, so Kevin made the trip up to the opposite end of the city, when they were loading the tank they dropped it and won't sell it to us. They are concerned the fall could have damaged the tank. A new tank has been reordered, with a discount, and the aforementioned ...

So I have been thinking about doing this for a few weeks and finally getting around to it after trying to get the nitrates down though regular water changes etc. After thinking about it I decided to use the media tray area in my sump made it real easy. Where the red arrow is pointed.

So after taken the media tray out I put in some egg crate in its place, was added to support the screen which went on top of the egg crate like so. I purchased the screen at ...

Day 6 of work or What a way to spend your birthday.

Well I fell into some money so I now have enough to finish this project 100%.

Well we started by doing the electrical, 20 outlets in all. I wanted to make sure I had enough....




Then it was on to insulation, and I did put 6 mil plastic on as well just no picture of the plastic.

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After seeing trido's http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...Aptasia-Burner build i said i was going to make one and i did here is the build pic's
i put mine in a box and added a gfci cause i fig people would want to borrow and dont want them shocking themselves
i have only seen 4 aptasia in my tank but now i see none

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Now the my cousin and I got the 245 gallon reef down stairs. (see http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php/767-Moving-the-new-245-G-with-2-people for details). I can explain what prompted my to do this and some preliminary plans. About a month ago we had our second child and decided to finish the basement. One of the impediments to the project was my current 180G reef, which I planned to build into the wall. The more I thought about it the more I wanted to upgrade. The only rule that I had was ...