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marc, if i can throw in my 2 cents worth. i'm not an engineer but i think in the long run you would be happier if you removed the old concrete and poured a new slab, making sure it was nice and level. yes it would cost more and take more time but like i said in the long run, i think you could gain a few advantages. putting that much weight of a large glass tank on a metal stand with adjusting bolts scares me in the fact that they all have to be adjusted at the same time, to keep from torquing the tank, hence more stress to the new tank. adjusting a piece of machinery that way is great, but it's a big chunk of metal, not so delicate. while you had the stab out, you could put in your french drain, move your water heater lines, and if you wanted to tap into your sewer line to put a wash sink in as well. just more things to think about. so when is the demolition party start. keep us up to date, you've been a great resource for me in the past.

Nice deal Dread. I use my phone from time to time to access the net. Especially if I need an address, or other information on something I am doing. The GPS built in on my phone is nice too even though I only use it once every other month or so, it does come in handy. And even though you aren't supposed to do it I used a free trial of tether and used my phone as a modem so I could have internet access. Went to a McDonalds on the strip and the internet there was barely fast enough to download a single file 20 mb took 30 mins. Through my phone I could download the same file in about 3 mins, if I ever go back to vegas I am buying a copy.

A side note, if anyone plans to go out to Las Vegas do not expect to find free internet access. Food is cheap, sometimes the rooms are too, and there are tons of interesting things going on along the strip that are free to watch but internet access will cost ya. One that I saw was 10.00 per day for cruddy wi-fi access.

heh, I'm totally spoiled by the constant web everywhere I go. I'm actually using it right now on my desktop since my modem took a crap for fios, and almost every post I've had on here last week came while relaxing on the sand down in myrtle beach :-P

I think Marc is right though, once you get a smart phone because of their price you fall in love with the one you have. I do believe all y'all when ya say ya love your phone. Smart phones are awesome life tools! I don't know how I lived without mine. I'm typing with mine right now. I do have great reception with my 3G where I live too. I'm on this phone 80% of the time and my desktop 20%..lol.

Very cool, learn something new every day. . . and since I read this after midnight I can let my brain go for about 23 hours, LOL.

I can bet a lot of algae started to grow as soon as light was available. And glad to hear that everything is looking good. When I started my tank and got a cup of live sand from the now defunct LFS, I don't think that I got much of anything really live other than bacteria but the rock I have now probably has a few things growing along. Had to kill a little aiptasia though but just pulled the piece of rock out and killed the little bugger.

But at least the snails and cucumbers sound like they are happy.

The rock was kept separate in case it tried to cycle (dying sponge from being exposed to air), but the livestock has been okay in the vats tied into the sump. The new sand bed won't cycle just because it is clean. It will need some critters though, but my LR will have that as will the sand from the refugium. I'm not worried about that at all. You should see the cucumbers and snails working these vats. I don't know what they are eating, but I guess film algae is forming as we speak.

I found a viable peanut worm in the sand tonight, so I tossed him in the refugium.

The 7 buckets of sand probably add up to 350 lbs worth, if they are 50 lbs each. It may be more or less - my scale is dead thanks to Wes and the Toadstool. hehe Once I rinse it out, I'll lose some of it. It was a 4" DSB in the tank, after all.

LOL, I know I will come see it at some point.

Wow, 7 Buckets????? It's going to really byte that you are going to have to cycle again too bad you couldn't rinse a little and keep it still live and viable. Without the sand in the system now are you noticing a lot of water parameters getting out of whack? I would almost expect a tank with the bioload you had to have a cycle of it's own with that much sand lost.

The tank is up for sale on DFWMAS: http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtop...580656#p580656

I am really lucky, I got my Blackberry Bold 9700 about 6 months ago for 33.00 and a renewal of my contract. Gotta love NewEgg, got two LG Xenon's at the same time for free just had to pay shipping on them. Even right now the Bold 9700 is 200.00 with a two year renewal on AT&T's website. So that is part of the reason why I ended up keeping a blackberry, I got my first one as a cheapo curve 8310 and started finding a lot of apps for free. Got my Bold and have never looked back.

I think many of the smart phones are really cool to have, but unless you are made of money, you'll end up with one kind. I'm thoroughly enjoying the iPhone experience. Yes, some multitasking is now possible. Kinda cool, but not always necessary.

If I build it, they will come, eh? lol

It was 7 salt buckets worth of sand. I have plenty of time to rinse it out before the next tank arrives - and yes I will be using it anew. I can seed it with a few cups from the refugium or from a few local tanks.

Originally Posted by waldend

P.S. I would like to change my recommendaion above about gutting the whole house. I think it would be better to just bulldoze it and start completely new! It would be the Reef Addicts house, we could deisgn it as a community. We could make it like that ED TV movie (I think that was the name). HA!

So are we going to start donating to a fund for Melevs Reef House? That way we can all driving him crazy by insisting he incorporate everyones ideas.

Reef by committee

I rock the htc evo on sprint, and stat for stat it outclasses the iphone 4 in practically every category :-P

We actually had this same conversation at Buffalo Wild Wings during the UFC fight... so then I let him use my phone for the rest of the night and now he wants a droid lol

Ewe, scooping sand is definitely not the funnest of things to do, wish I could be there to help you with the tank moving. Are you planning on reusing the sand? If so are you going to rinse most of it and keep 20-40 pounds live to reseed? Hopefully the corals and other livestock are still doing well in their storage bins? A "bommie" is a island so to speak to keep polyps on and to keep them form spreading? At least that is how I understood the term used before.

The skimmer is the right size for a bigger tank. It was originally rated for up to 800g, but I believe it is more likely rated that way for a lightly stocked tank - not the full blown reef I run. I'm sure it can handle the extra 100+ gallons. It is an in-sump skimmer, non-recirculating.

I picture the rockwork centered in the tank, with the Toadstool close to the overflow on the left and a bommie on the far right.

I'm scooping out the sand now. Not fun. Hopefully a few locals can come over tomorrow to take this tank outside.

Hey Marc are you thinking of aquascaping a bit of a peninsula coming out from the end where the overflows are? Seems like that would be pretty cool.

I would keep the ER skimmer running and just supplement with another skimmer. Otherwise buying a skimmer for a 400 gallon tank would be in the 1500 -2000 dollar range for a recirc which I believe is what Marc has now?

I know that in Texas ATT has great service and that would be great to be able to use I-phone. However, here in the Carolinas ATT is not so great, so just making a call let alone looking for actual 3G service is very unreliable at best. Hey Hat can you run more than one app at a time?

If yoou upgrade to the 400 gallon that Euroreef skimmers is going to be small, right? What equipment upgrades do you think you need out of this? I know you reuse as much as you can, but some stuff just wont want the a bigger tank!

Heh.. I know! I know you miss ya Iphone! ;-p. I do wish I could do flash though. Can your phone read to you though? ( speech Reader)