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My Lord, when are you gonna be done dude!!

Is that the rare bunnyappora!!!!! Can you frag some and bring it too the brs meeting? Sorry some one had to do it......

Wow Marc! It's really coming together now. The fish room is looking great. I can't wait till ya can put ya livestock in... Fish are going to love their new home. ;-)

Hey Marc, looks good, are you going to do a article on building sumps for the site. I know you have all the ones on your personal site, but I believe some of the info is probably dated and you are probably using some new techniques.

Thanks man. I'm having a custom house built now and we're just at the point where we're going to install the aquarium plumbing rough-ins and nobody that I talk to has any ideas to help me with. All I know is that I want to do it now, before there's drywall in my way.

Sure, I'll get some new pictures taken so you can see it all better. I found the panel at Home Depot, and I think it was about $8.

Hey Marc, can you share some details about that access panel for the hot and cold water? What kind of valve, where you found the panel, etc?

Marc, while it's always sad to loose a specimen, especially one you've had for a long time, think on the positive side. Think of all those corals you had to pass up because they wouldn't fit in with your old livestock. Think of all the cool new stuff you can get now. Personally, I love starting a new tank from scratch. It can go any way you want with few limitations.

I did place an order, so you can say that now.

I don't have any long turn 90s in this layout, but I do think it is pretty streamlined. I think it will be easy to understand and follow, and there is a little room for redundancy that my last tank didn't have.

Today is exactly 6 months since I broke down the 280g, and with the coral losses I've endured, I'm saddened. I lost some big pieces, and feel like I'm almost setting up a reef from scratch now. Oh well, I'll just have to go with what I got and then shop for some new pieces. The system will definitely be designed to support life, but it's going to have to be new life instead of what I had.

I noticed my little mandarin that I've had since Dec 2005 was in the return section of my sump three weeks ago. She was in a 100g vat with all LPS corals and rock since the breakdown and was doing great. I saw her again yesterday and she looked completely starved. I shouldn't have left her in the return zone, but at the time I didn't have the ability to catch her amidst all the equipment, anemones, and other corals. I scooped her out and dropped her back in the 100g vat but don't have high hopes for her recovery. What a shame.

np. glad I could contribute even from this far away. If you decide to place an order i could now say I helped with the build. lol

rome wasn't built in a day, right. but it sounds like you'er making great progress. it's so cool to see and hear how things are progressing. i know this will be the ultmate set up when you'er done. have you worked out a design for the new sump. have you ever used pvc-dwv fittings like long turn 90's to reduce the flow loss, i'm thinking about using them on my new tank plumbing. hopfuly reduce some of the head pressure from the return pump.

Yes, that is a flaw in the color scheme of the site. If we change it to a light color, then the links on the right side of the screen are too light to read. It's a trade off. I always bold the links on my comments to help make them more visible.

Thanks for the link, rarely.

i couldn't see the post above. it is in a red that is very hard to read until i highlighted it.

try flexpvc.com

why black?

I have a 55g barrel about 75% full of LR that I'll be using. It's been in there for 5 months.

http://flexpvc.com/cart/agora.cgi?ca...The_Foot_Black

good site

That's good how much longer should it be till you can add livestock again. I was also wondering if you were using all live rock or dry rock and liverock.

How exciting!

I'm thinking about it. Next Wave will have the Coral Farmers Market in February. I'm going to have to figure out a way to save up some coral money.

I just placed my order today for the plumbing parts from Savko. OMG it was expensive, but it'll look great.

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I lost quite a bit of SPS, but still have an decent assortment of livestock for the new tank. It's still going to feel like I'm starting over.

So you'll have to go to lots of swap meets and watch places like Reef Koi for special deals to repopulate the tank. Darn that sucks!