Tank - Full Summary

Now that the tank is on it's stand I'm going to start working on the water flow. Once I get the skimmer in I'll be working on the in tank sump and overflow. And I know, I know... Pictures are coming!

This is going to be a long blog, so if you are using your SMARTphone, better switch from 3G to WiFi.

Here's the schedule for that day. I removed the addresses and phone numbers since they are unnecessary at this point. While we did drive from home to home, the travel time wasn't too bad. Some tanks were a few minutes apart, and a couple were 30 minutes between destinations. I attempted to group them to keep drive times reasonable, ...

Hobby: an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation.
I thought this may be a good place to begin my blog here on Reef Addicts as this is where my interest began, a hobby. An activity, introduced to me by my wife (read: all her fault), to help mitigate my very stressful occupation. She had no way of knowing that the 10 gallon tetra aquarium was just like a gateway drug.


Current image of my original tank ...

How many of you out there have ever sat in front of your tank and sighed, remembering how exciting the hobby was when you got your first tank set up? Recalling the hours you spent staring in wonder at the infinte diversity you poured your heart and soul into building into your reef. The countless water changes performed, the meticulous testing you did and redid hoping that stubborn nitrate test wouldn't turn red. Even something a simple as seeing your first limpet stuck to the glass and thinking ...

First, this tank is going in my office not my house so I don't have to worry about my beautiful wife hating the rough look.

Now on to the stand...

I'm going to leave the side open and put a couple shelf sections in for parts, food, you know fish stuff!
I'll brace the back for strength, and also have a nice place to mount my controller parts. (That'll be a tough choice??? RKE or RKL? Who am I kidding, I ran an RKE decked out on my 10g!)

Anyway, ...