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Max, I really enjoyed your build thread. Also appreciate your sense of humor. I think that is a mandatory skill required for reef keeping!!

Your tank looks terrific.

Your setup looks really nice. Good luck with your progress.

New top glass braces are glued in, the only thing left to finish the tank repair is to epoxy the top plastic braces and reinforce with a little fiberglass.

Time to glue the new seams in... Putting in a clear seal next to the overflow and black seal for the front seams. Masked up the area... Clear silicone goes on.. Smooth it out and take the tape off....came out nice Hers is a picture of the front glass rod fitted into the front seam...

The project continues. When I drained my tank I noticed the front seams were compromised by algae growing into the seams. I asked a number of people for advice and watched a few repair videos and decide to take the following approach to repair the tank. Also, the top plastic braces are broken...

Getting close. Hard to believe it was so much work to take a tank down and start over. I'm optimistic it will be all worth it.

Replaced the background with one from bluelifeusa.com It's like an automotive vinyl wrap. Wet the back of the tank with water/soap solution. Peel the backing off the vinyl wrap and spray it down with the water/soap solution as well. Once placed on the back of the tank you squeegee the air bubble...

Good luck with your build, keep up the posts and sharing your progress.

Your tank looks great. What are the white and orange fish?

Stand is done, next up is resealing the display tank. The top braces and front seams need repair as well.

Awsome tank!

I just bought a Won Brothers Titanium 500watt HT heater to go with my Apex. I've been through 3 JB titanium heaters, a finnex titanium heater and none lasted very long. I had an old Won brothers with a temp controller and used it as a back up and the heating element never failed but ultimately...

Next up is the stand and canopy refresh/touch up. Going to sand down the water damaged areas in the stand and top of the canopy re-stain and clear coat the areas. Then reinstall the new gear. Mainly installing the Apex for lighting control, fish feeding, and Tunze power head control. Since I...

LOL! That's one way to never have aptaisia and Dino again!!

Finally getting around to provide an update on the progress. The sump, refugium, and Apex system for the most part are all re assembled and installed. I figure I'd invest my upgrade dollars into a full Apex system. Was originally thinking of going LED, but I have a nice MH and VHO system I'll...

Thanks Herb and Anne for hosting the meeting today. This is the 2nd time seeing your tank and it's great motivation for me to get back into the hobby. Just fantastic.

Looking forward to attending. Joel

Finally got around to cleaning and updating my stand pipes. This is what they looked like after 12 years of use. The strainers were always filling up with crud and used to take a tooth brush on a stick to clean it up a bit but was always clogging up since I did not make them serviceable. I...

Got some Add ones for my Apex system, BRS had 10% off. Break out box and some cables. Also got a new heater from Marine depot and pump for my kalk reactor from Drfostersmith.