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Update Time! The Fish arrived So did the worst 40 bucks I ever spent. Decorations for the quarantine tank. These things are so small Everything arrived ok except the geometric Pygmy hawk fish. He survived acclimation but I think it's going to die. He did NOT look well in the. bag...

Moved it in and setup the quarantine. I've been thinking of whether or not to black out the sides of the quarantine but I might want to or use the tank for some other purpose so I opted not to. For filtration I got a biowheel filter and I'm gonna grab some dr tims and marine pure media...

Update: I have been busy the last few days! First up I took a trip to GREENSBORO,NC to checkout Daves shop and see a few of his custom fixtures in action. I will definitely be ordering 1 or 2 for my new frag tanks soon. It is a absolutely gorgeous facility. While there we decided...

So last night after a ru day doing rock and other tank stuff it was like midnight when I started doing the manifold. Wife came in found me taking a nap on the job. In reality I had lay down on the floor to stretch out my back after crouching under the stand routing wires and closed my...

Alright you scurvy reef pirates I got a pic of the scape My inspiration is Chingchai My thought process was to go slightly less than 3/4's to the height of the tank. I'll be using 4 MP40's with random flow . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The gifts keeps on giving: So this one time I legit spent like 100 dollars on a cleaning magnet. I know right dumb. Just grab a magfloat and keep it moving amirite? Lol Today I opened my box of goodness and pulled out ye' olde' magnet - goin on a few years old now and naturally it has a lump...

Update time: So I swear I have not been idle lol. So I was able to get the tank full of RODI and salt 3 40lb bags of caribsea ocean direct later and I have a completely cloudy mess So I figured I would put my skimmer in and crank that summabish up. Remember my sump area? Not...

Remember those cracked bulkheads? Well a quick overflow water test revealed that 2 more cracked and you guessed it. I had to disassemble the overflow replace the 2 bulkheads and re assemble. Since I was up there I decided might as well hang the light. My ceiling drywall is 5/8" thick which...

Massive update almost time for water! So I have been having terrible luck with some aspects of this tank. Let's start with drains! The SC Aquariums come drilled with 3 1" holes. This is great but traditional overflow plumbing won't work. It comes packaged with a. 1" Durso and a 1" return that...

What a busy Monday! My doors arrived unexpectedly The tank made it into the stand after me and the guys moved the stand inside. Then the doors got mounted up But it was back to the garage to fabricate the center doorstop because the 3rd door from the door manufacturer wouldn't fit!! I...

First coat is on!!! Tank should be on the stand this weekend !!!!!! I also ordered my doors they not arriving until next week though.

Update! Last night I was able to get all the trim installed. I went with very simple trim. This was a major accomplishment and I can't believe I'm so close to being finished. Tonight I was able to triple kilz the interior of the stand. Arguably this was the hardest to get every crack...

Update been skinning this thing all day almost done !! Just picked up some trim from lowes Finally skinned OMFG this is a lot of work but I spent the day cutting and measuring and cutting some more and measuring and routering and planing. Added more cross braces to the top of...

So some more updates tonight! I cut the uprights and supports for the tank which will allow it to be centered on the 8 foot stand and have adequate support. I was able to finesse the template out of the SCA tank and was pleasantly surprised to see that it should fit without having to cut the...

Update !!!! Got a lot of progress done tonight. I traded back my harbor freight table saw for a nice kobalt one from lowes. It was on sale and seemed to be better quality than the harbor freight one plus it came with a rolling stand!!! and I also bought a Krieg pocket jig for when I...

Nope wood is cheap and I have extra I recut the end pieces and got my 30" :) I did this in the garage at like 10:30 lol. It would have seriously bothered the hell out of me. As I suspected cutting on the outside of the line worked wonders. Good news is that the other pieces I cut can still...

Well started the assembly tonight and things were going well before I ran out of light. 2 things about the rocket engineer stand and about wood in general. 8' 2x6 are not really 8 feet. I had to trim off some and will need to trim off the bottom as well. My measurements are as follows and...

Well good news is that last night I made my first cuts of the top and bottom rails today i.e. I'll be cutting the legs side and other support. I haven't screwed anything together yet just dry fitting everything The funny thing was that I had to literally build all of my tools to support my...

Well bad news and good news. 1. SCA has of course gone radio silent on my refund. I'm giving them until Monday afternoon then filing a charge back on my Discover Card via PayPal. 2. To date I have contact (stand builders in 4 states and about 10 handy men and cabinet makers in charlotte and...