DIY projects

This morning someone asked me if I had recent photos of our skimmer. I was cleaning up my phone yesterday and found this video. This was shot a few days, maybe a week, after being put online. This thing is a beast! Can't seem to find the embed option from YouTube, but here is the link. It pulls out about 2-5L/week and that volume seems to be both weather dependent, ozone reliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJKMDA9Bz4

The quality has degraded significantly, sorry! ...

Rearranged the rock a little, to get a little depth in the tank. It is kind of hard to show the depth with a picture like this, but the left side rock actually is too close to the front glass, and goes all of the way back to about an inch from the back....

RO/DI is installed, and we ran it for a couple of hours last night. Made about 8-9gal.
We chose to install in way up on the wall, about halfway between the water valve and where the mixing barrels will be, so that we have no ...

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Day 3

Got a little more done......









Got that ugly pole out of site. ...

The wall we intend to place Tibet in. This was us lining everything up to make sure both myself and my other half could enjoy a good view of the tank. I'm short, he's tall, but we found somewhere to meet in the middle.



After much demo this is what we had left. We appropriated the basement bathroom to be our fishroom, and have opted to move the bathroom to a more appropriate space.
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Well after a few years in the hobby I feel its time for an upgrade. What better time to look for a larger tank than when the wife is out of town.

So I started searching for a larger tank, luck lead me to a nice 240g along with 2 ice cap ballast's, rubbermaid holding tank, reef flo pump, and a whole lot of plumbing.

Step 1. Call wife and tell her I'm buying a tank-check

Step 2. Find a place to put it-Check

Step 3. Clean out spot-ummm ya heres ...