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Swapped out the 75 for this nano. College is sucking up a lot of time and money.

In August of 2004, I had to erect a couple of walls to enclose the fishroom for the 280g. Today, I had to do it again. I expected it to go much more smoothly since I have a nice flat slab to work on, but for whatever reason, the ceiling in my garage varies and of course my concrete isn't perfectly smooth apparently.

This part can't be done without an assistant, and so I waited until Bobby could come over. The goal was to get the framework up and then have him get the new sub-panel ...

I'm happy to report the new 400g is under construction at last. One piece of glass was taking forever to come in, but arrived September 29th and the guys at Marineland sent over a couple of pictures for me to share.

You are looking at the tank from the end that faces the kitchen.


The external overflow that will hang behind the black acrylic panel with the teeth.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010.

So it has been sometime since I last updated my thread due to work and other non reef related things but the aquarium has been filled with saltwater for about 2 1/2 months with no lights at all. The cycling process has come and gone and I finally got tired of looking at this void tank of water in my living. However, due to cost I am not able to entirely setup my Custom LED Lighting System. So I am not worried about lighting that are able to sustain SPS ...

I just recently aquired a seagrass filefish. He is pretty cool. But I did get him for one reason. I have a plague of aptasia in my tank that just has to go.. cant take it anymore. Was going to get maybe a burgia nudibranch, but went with the Monacanthidae instead. He seems to be doing pretty good but doesnt seem to be going after the aptasia. I'm sure that it's probly normal that you will get one that doesnt eat aptasia, just like you'll get some that are not reef safe... But perhaps its because ...