I love this first chalice, especially under 20,000K lighting. This green and blue one is doing quite well. A little frag was gifted to me by popular vote on DFWMAS, and this is the actual color of the tissue. I used a flash to keep the color honest. This little guy is amazing. You ...
Updated 02-07-2014 at 04:04 AM by melev
It has been a long time since i have updated my build. Before starting a lot has happened over the last year and a half. I have changed jobs, welcomed our new addition to my family with a handsome son and moved into my fiances home. Since spring i have built a 9 by 9 foot filter room in the basement where all of my equipment is at. For my tank equipment I went with 3 ecotech radion pros, 2 vortech mp40's, reef octopus xp3000 ext skimmer, bubble magnus dosing pump, tunzes ato, dart return ...
The left side of my reef suffers from sand movement. The ebb of the Vortech pump seems to pull the sand toward the pump, leaving a huge low spot at least a foot wide that coincidentally buries some corals on the left. It wasn't this bad at first, but something changed and it will move in a day instead of over a week's time. In this recent picture, you can see the big hole. Maybe I bumped up the flow rate, I'm not sure. I took a couple of ...
Right then.Float sensor stuck on due to little white snails.Ato thinks water is low in sump.Pumps ro water into system untill sump overflows dumping i"m guessing 20 gal onto basement floor.And the external skimmer pump.Then gfci for that room pops.No pwr to system for several hours.Thats what I discovered at 10:30 am.Scrambling all day doing damage control and cleanup.
I really like talking about this project but I'm going to do my best to keep this simple along the way. After failing to find the product I wanted last night and spending about an hour reading on my iphone I was able to find sealants and epoxy that will work. So I'm hoping to save the next guy some reading time. Wood is cut. Need to coat it in something to waterproof it that’s reef safe. First product I got is Bondo all-purpose fiberglass resin ...