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No comment on my mod suggestion?

If you're talking about the light, I don't really want to put a 24" light over a 36" tank.
Right now, I have a 24" light over a 30" tank, and it works fine but I know from seeing it in that context that I wouldn't be happy with how dark it would be on the ends over a 36" tank.
Thanks for the suggestion though.



Can I help it that I am a REEFING ICON and everyone wants to talk to me???

Are you still getting delivery of your replacement canopy on Wed/tomorrow?

I wouldn't doubt it unless I had a real reason to do so. You know, something like a leak.

Kay.
The guy said it didn't leak, but of course you don't know that without leak-testing and I doubt he'd let me do that before paying him!

I plan to put a 20" Sunpod on a 24" tank via clear acrylic strips like you are talking about. I guess I am still getting the canopy, haven t heard anything further from the guy.

Cool sig.
If only you posted more so everyone could see it.

Not necessary, EVERYBODY already knows you are a reefing ICON.

Doofus.

Hey, seeing as how you're a Doofus and all, you should hang around here more often, you'd fit right in!

So the guy building the tanks sez he thinks he's gonna hafta deliver Monday instead of Wed./tomorrow.
Kinda par for the course.

I like the 30B, but because of space and stands and stuff, I'd have to use the 30B for the sump instead of the display, which I don't really want to do.
So I think I'm just gonna go buy another 20L and drill it and put an overflow in it and have a 20L display and a 20L sump.
Now to go find a dohickey to drill a 3/4" hole....

Dremel + $7 walmart diamond bits.

Seriously for real??
Are you SURE???!!
Cause the glass drill bit I found so far was $36, which was a lil more than I wanted to spend.
Have you used the WalMart ones yourself??

Heck yes I have!

Pay no attention to the skip marks on the pane and the ragged hole! That was my first time and I was being furtive.

They're the only thing I have used to drill so far. You can find them in the drill bit section; there should be a little rack for the dremel bits.

I don't do the clay dam thing that you do with a regular hole-saw type... I rig up a bucket of water and an airhose with a valve. I start a siphon and tape the tube to the dremel so it drips right where the bit is grinding.

Trace out the hole you want to cut on the side opposite of where you will be grinding from. This way, the line doesn't chip or wear off as you are working. Start the hole with the spherical bit, then change to the wedge bit and work your way around your tracing while moving the dremel up and down. If you don't move up and down, it takes a lot longer.

I sent him an email earlier & told him you mentioned on a board that you were expecting shipment tomorrow & to contact you if that was not correct. I will let you know when I hear back about other questions I had. He is much better at replying to my emails now.

Ain't no pushover

...Me too.





Did pretty much as Fosi did, used the ball bit to "score" the circle, then switched over to the tapered bit finally punched through, then simply follwed around the line working the bit up and down as he said.

YOU CAN DOOOO EEEEETT!

Nice work.

Didn't you break the first one Fosi

I know how hard it is to keep up with contact & paperwork when you get swamped. I have been on the computer with web orders for the last 2 days. I hope I got back to everyone!

Actually, wasn't it an overflow he cut out of the top of a 20L ?

IIRC, he broke it moving the tank, not while drilling / cutting it.

meh, sux either way i s'pose.

Never broke a hole but did break my first drill job: a slit.

It was a dumb idea as shown by how easily it cracked.

Since we are into all this tank talk, I have a story for you.

My acans & torch in my prop tank have not been looking well off & on for some time now. I started losing the one on the lower left one head at a time last week.


My PH was almost not showing & alk was low. I began working on bringing it up. Yesterday I was talking to Weetie on the phone & testing the PM when my Rio 400 started sending out pea sized bubbles-quite a few, pause & more. I commented to her & it quit. About 15 sec. later it started blowing large bubbles in a steady flow with black stuff. It smelled like electrical burning. I quickly yanked the plug, removed the pump & what I could of the film & black off the top of the water skimming just below the surface when removing 1g. I did a 1g WC which is all I had made up & dumped a bunch of charcoal in a media bag to put in high flow in the sump. The skimmer started pulling stuff out right away. I had no place to put that much coral so all I could do was the above, pray & leave it in God's hands.

Today, the tank looks great. The acans are happier than they have been in a long time. Here is a shot of one that had been recovering from a previous event that I sent Mr. F earlier today. Thanks for your help, buddy! I had moved the dying acan & the torch the night before when I did a 4g WC. I had to throw the acan out today. It was gone.

Sorry Sue

I wasn't knocking you Fosi. Just trying to recall what happened. I remember enjoying the thread and feeling for you

Richie and Fosi, you guys are brave!
The thought of trying to drill a hole that way makes me very nervous!
I'll see if I can get my brain used to the idea, the price is certainly right.

Well, see...... I was actually more comfortable trying it this way as apposed to a diamond hole saw bit and here's why. Keep in mind I have never used one, but, Every pic I saw of one of those bits showed no "center point" bit-( for lack of a better term). Hole saws for metals and such that I use every day have a standard drill bit, usually 1/4" in the center of an "arbor" (the mount that holds the desired sized hole saw )

The standard bit keeps the hole saw centered, and stable while drilling. Picture the center bit drilling through the work first, then the actual hole saw now hits the surface, digging in and being held "true" by the first bit...ugh.....dang I sux at describing chit. anywho.....here take a Styrofoam cup place it upside down. Push a pencil down through the center. The pencil is the center drill bit and the cup is the hole saw. The pencil drills through first, now the cup can rotate around being held centered by the pencil.

lets move on shall we?

These diamond bits, again at least the pics I have seen, do not have this. And it would seem to be VERY difficult to hold something like that flat, true and even. I can see that thing wanting to walk all over the glass before it bites in. Now once that bit has dug in and starts to cut I think it gets easier to control.

As it does with the dremel. The first scoring of the glass is key, once its there each pass gets easier, following the groove you have started.

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

Now see, I never would have thought of that.
That's why you guys are such an awesome resource to hash all of this stuff through with.
I can't tell you how much I have appreciated all of your input, it's really helped.

Having said that, what do you think of this:
http://www.glass-holes.com/product.sc?cate...mp;productId=18

I think the muzak is annoying!

But did you see the bit "dance" around at first? That is exactly what I thought a bit like that would do. But as you see, once it has scored the surface its much easier to hold in place. Looks as if they are suggesting you try to start one side first and sort of tip the drill into the work from there.

I think I'll stick with my dremel method.

I can drill any size hole I want, I didn't have to wait for the mail and I didn't pay shipping on top of the parts cost. That, and I don't have to worry about splintering the glass on the other side of the pane. I get a nice, smooth edge.

Go with what you're comfortable with but the dremel bits will let you do whatever you want and they let you do it for cheap. Plus, I'm still on my original set of bits and I have drilled close to three linear feet of 1/4" glass.

Still on tank topics!

Weetie, I heard from Ty & he is making your tank for free &.

We have been invaded by Alienz! Don't know if you can see the eyes in this pic. I didn't dare get to close. You might notice that they got to Weeite's son!























JK It was my camera skillz at work again!

I went to Grandparent's Day at my Grandson's school today. We had a great time! He did an awesome job in the program. Notice my grandson under the star.



We spent too long in the Book Sale room to get the "official" picture so here is the "unofficial" one.


Than it was back to Weetie's to spoil the other munchkin. We went to lunch at The Soup Kitchen. It is a little place near their house with awesome soups & home made breads & desserts. Weetie used to be the dessert cook.


I am happy to report that a good time was had by all.

Now we return you to your previously scheduled Tank Talk.

There I fixed the first pic so you can see the eyes better.

Sometimes I think Zoas are the Spawn of the Sea Devil....

In other news, I have some HOT upgrades on the way, YAAAAAY for Tax Refunds!

What's wrong with zoas?

Some of them are getting kinda peeved and shriveldy looking.
Did a double-strength lugol's dip on them today, as well as a 20% WC.

I just lost my yellow-eye sealife zoas... and those gouchers from dt.

There's that cornbread again!




Looks like you had a great time guys!

( L, little guys gettin' big )

That's what I'm sayin, Spawn of the Sea Devil.

I think in a month or two you and I should do a Zoa/Paly trade just to make ourselves feel better about the whole mess.

True dat

like a light fixture perhaps?

zoas are over rated. Tangs in nanos is the in thing now

Inorite?
He just turned 3 and we constantly have people thinking he's at least 4.
And MAN is that cornbread good!



Well that's ONE thing...
But it's not all.



Oh man you are RIGHT, a Dory is just what my tank needs to give that final "Zing".
I'll get right on that.

Absolutely.

Richie and I need to do a tradsy also.


It's gonna be a NICE upgrade.... I'm jealous much.

You gotz the best tank dork, 40br like all the cool kidz

A little bird told me that Weetie might have wanted bonai reefer's drilled 40B. True/false?

didja mean toadsy?

Soon buddeh, real soon.

oh snap its out

Well sure, I wanted it, but I don't really have a way to get it.

There's always a WAY to get it.

You don't fancy a 5hr drive?

But you'll get to visit beautiful Columbia SC and meet the great Mr. Fosi!

Wouldn't he meet you half way?

Well, I've gone & done it now. I picked up adinsxq's light & got in on the Vortech group buy. Now, if my tank & stand will just get here we can get this show on the road. Hopefully Mon.