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Lol...I hardly get on my desktop anymore, just to print something or add pics to this site, that's all. Heh. I'll probably get mine when it's upgrade time to get it a little cheaper. Man, I don't see how I live without my iPhone before. My wife has some other type of smart phone, it's nothing compared to mine though. I told her I was going to get her one soon. The only thing, I can't find an alarm on it, that's weird, does everything but don't have an alarm?

I preordered (or reserved) my iPhone 4 at Best Buy yesterday. They only had it in black it turns out - the white one comes out in August and I refuse to wait that long.

Thanks AgSansoo and Marc for all the info. Been checking prices of ballast at the sites y'all gave me, don't know what I'm going to get yet. I like the IceCap and it's only a little more than the ATO one.

I' moving my liverock and things to a new tank.

Darn, I really don't know DSB or bare! I do want some sand and since I'm spending a lot of money getting this set up, I believe I'll go with 1 1/2 to 2 inch sand bed.

I will show pics of what I have for plumbing hopefully tomorrow. We went to Lowes t
tonight and picked up some wood to fix the canopy, paint, hardware and some silicone, oh yeah some of them tie-strap to tidy all my electrical wires. Will start painting tomorrow. :-)

Heh, shoot, I think that would make me happier too! ;-p. I love my iPhone.

Maybe you should get the iPhone 4 with the 5 megapixel camera and make Midnight happier. (Me too!)

Lol...it's an iphone I'm using to take pics all the time. Heh, sorry.

Hat you really should sell the old tank and buy a new camera. My eyes don't like your camera.

1) The IceCap 660 ballast will light 16' of VHO bulbs, or 4 x 4' bulbs. The IceCap 430 only lights 12' of bulbs (or 3 x 4' bulbs). You can purchase the ballast online at MarineDepot.com, ChampionLighting.com, or PremiumAquatics.com to name a few. The IceCap ballast overdrives them to get the bright light our tanks need. ARO is the house-brand sold by HelloLights.com

2) Yes, you want plastic hose clamps, sold online and possibly available at your LFS. Metal ones rust and drop bits of metal into the sump. We can't answer your question about the return tubing because only you have seen it. Pictures help.

3) You can buy dry sand and live sand from your LFS. I prefer a DSB, but you may only want to see a shallow sandbed of 1.5-2" deep. It's a preference thing now-a-days, although a DSB does help with denitrification.

4) Get the tank set up, make sure there are no leaks, stabilize the water for a day or two, then move your livestock. If you had a few year's experience under your belt, you could probably move the livestock into the tank the same day, but being new I would suggest you verify that all is well before risking the livestock's health.

1) How many bulbs are you planning to run. They do sell a four bulb ballast. http://www.hellolights.com/index.asp...ROD&ProdID=360

3) Run a bare bottom tank. save your $.

4) Are you starting a whole new tank ? Or are you moving liverock from old tank to new setup ?

Yeah it's glowing pretty good... Lol. Not sure about easy,just hope the water perimeters will stay a little more stable.

super mega glowy rubbermaid tote right there .

I'm jelous, hope this tanks makes it a bit easier on ya.

Good info, thank y'all very much!

The fine sand will eventually settle down and bind to each other so you're not blowing it around. In fact if you don't have any sand stirring critters it can become like cement. I prefer a little courser sand, suger sand, not flour sand, mixed with some even courser 1-3mm size sand.

Just remember that with the really fine sand you might have problems with your powerheads blowing it around. I'm dealing with that right now even though my Vortechs are as high as they can be without creating a vortex from the surface.

Yes, sand is the way to go.

Hey, my wife likes sand not crushed coral, I do too because it looks better. So, I was going to go with that in the new tank. What ya think?

Okay, thanks Marc!

Yes, they will be okay in the rubbermaid as long as you stay on top of temperature and top off. Water changes as well, but you mentioned that already.

I have alot of work to do on this set up. I'm going to try and take it as slow as possible, well as fast as possible while still doing it right. It's in the middle of my living room in pieces. The pic is from the seller, in his home. Tonight I will put things more in place. I néed to start cleaning and painting these next few days.

Looks like you got some work ahead of you. I still have my dreams of a nice twin overflow 6' tank with a rock wall and some very nice islands throughout it

One of these days... one of these days