Midnight

Just as good a day as any to give your new tank its fist birthday. Right now between 1600 and 1800 all the lights are on, I have set them each for 6 hours with a two hour start delay for each halide. As you can see I have not cut off the threaded stock from the lights because the lights are not centered front to back over the tank, this may need fixed if I decide the front of tank is too dark. The rails stop at the crown molding in the garage which would give me a couple of inches.
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The sump arrived on Wednesday, I rushed home from work to get started on everything that needed to be done.



At Marc's suggestion I filled the bottom of the stand with sand instead of concrete, it took five bags of sand.



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A fellow reefer in the Charlotte are asked me to build him a sump. He was very opposed to have to take down or drain his reef to add a new sump so we opted to just add another chamber to his existing filtration. His goals were to get things cleaned up and set up his filtration better. He originally had an old style trickle filter with some live rock and a berlin turbo skimmer.

Our plan was to remove the live rock and turn that chamber into a refugium. I had an old Octo skimmer that ...