Electrical

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 ...

So I finally got around to setting up the auto top off. I do spend a lot of time away from the reef and decided that, though I love my wife dearly, she won't always remember to check on the tank. So I spent about 30 dollars on parts from http://www.aquahub.com. I actually got 3 float switches, the third I may add to the reservoir or just hang on to for a spare. I had a small sheet of 1/4 inch acrylic in the garage to use for the mounting bracket. I ripped off a two inch strip and and heated ...

I was going to do one big update but decided to break it up. This part is about my canopy. The system I got was a few years old and was really a fixer upper.

Son-in-law Tim helping me! They had some bad wood on canopy, looked like it wasn't seal to great! He took off all bad wood.



He replaced with all new wood. Notice I taped off the VHO caps to get ready for sealing and painting.

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My neighbor showed up pounding on my front door while I was busy measuring PAR in the fishroom. Turns out a small fire ignited on the transformer behind my house. And it's raining!









I went ahead ...

So with a little help from a friend (by little I mean him coming over and taking all the pics for me, thank you Daniel). I actually have some good shots of some of my equipment and some of my livestock in my 325. Starting with equipment and under stand shots:


This is a shot from the right end of my stand where all the electrical of the system is run to. I wanted to try to seal this area off from any water or moister as well as keep it as organized as possible. ...