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I don't know wood, but I know iron. Seeing the beam in the garage, if it was like a structural iron job, I would say that the floor joists are running perpendicular to the main beam in the garage, and sitting on top of it. But, I would think that anything parallel to the floor moist where a load bearing wall sits on them, is probably braced to the adjacent moist. I will talk to a guy at work tomorrow and find out what he says because I think he knows about wood. If not, ill find the carpenter foreman and his opinion. In either case, see if you can calc out the pounds per square foot your setup will have, the area it covers, and we can go from there. Im willing to bet that you'll be good with it though. But, I see where you're going with it, and I think its cool you're covering all the bases.

I am really glad you started looking at the floor supports for that tank and stand, I would say 1" would be what I would do for the pipe given that is the size of the connection coming out of it, plus that particular pump is pretty good at handling back pressure from what I have read on it, but if you are running multiple ports out of it (which I assume you are for flow) then depending on how many Tees you run you may have to go down in size to keep the psi up if that makes any sense

lol, sounds like my wife, I want to move my tank into my den area but since it's such a pain to move something like that I am trying to convince her just to let me get a bigger tank so I can transfer the livestock over rather than just moving it plus a bigger tank would have to go in there unless I overhauled the floor it is currently in (which I need to do anyway if it stays in here) anyway looks like you have a nice setup with plenty of picture opportunities along the way *wink wink* so definitely keep us posted

Man that looks awesome! Make sure you document everystep along the way so we can all see how you figured it out. Great Find!

Agreed. And at 1.017 it sounds like it got a bunch of top off and no saltwater... like if the system had overflowed and they added more water. As evaporation occurs, salinity always goes up rather than down.

Very frustrating to be sure.

Well after looking into it i think it was most likely a salinity issue. When i went over to address the anemone issue i noticed there was massive amounts of salt creep due to the fact that they let the spraybar splash all over the place. There was a thick layer of salt on the hood, on the rim of the tank, and even some on the stand next to the tank. I checked the salinity and it was down at 1.017! I normally keep it at 1.025. I don't know if that change over the period of four or five days would kill it but i definitely think it wouldn't have been happy. I had gotten a call the week before because my metal halide light hadn't come on for a couple of days so they were "curious" if it was supposed to do that. Its all just very annoying because they lived with us for 6 months before my wife and i moved out so they saw me take care of the tank long enough to know what should and shouldn't happen.....

That's awful. Did you figure out what happened specifically? I completely agree that a tank in a clueless person is going to turn out badly every time.

When I've had to travel, I'd have my son "watch" the tank. It would kill me that he was sitting 7' away from it playing video games or watching tv and not notice when things are going wrong. I'd get a text or I'd check the tank via AquaNotes and have to call him to tell him to fix something. Looking over at the tank is a simple twist of the neck, and every time you walk into the kitchen, you walk past the AC3 that displays current conditions. I realize it is my hobby, but he was living here for free and you'd think he'd be all over the one thing that mattered since there is life at stake.

Man.... sorry to hear of your loss.... I can imagine your pain of seeing those grown up corals, who grew up under your care, dead...

Hang in there... if you were able to get that growth in a 30g you'll see much more in your 75g.

My finger leathers have been slowly shrinking since I upgraded my lighting over a year ago. They don't seem to like clean bright tanks much.

Those little needles are the calcium rods that leathers form as a sort of skeleton. they won't pollute the tank at this point.

Phil

i added Bio Pellets to my tank and my big leather turned grey. hoping it was just molting i watched it over two weeks almost get back to the right color then it slit open and sprayed white innerds all over... I would have thought leathers would cope better than most corals. Guess not...

Ya its just a bunch of little needle like things now. I sucked as many of them up as i could. I don't want to foul my water any more then it already has been.

It's completely gone. You can't even tell it was a leather; the thumbnail looked like a sponge initially.