It's a 40 breeder, it should be fine. Unless its some off brand or something.

nah, is AGA - they don't temper their 40B's. And I drilled a hole on my other tank so I know how it's done. I still get nervous though, lol. And I have to drill 3 of them on this beast.

I want to do a 40b, but I know drilling will make me nervous. Never done it, and really like cleanliness of no HOB filters or overflows.

Stand is reassembled

Evap will happen / show up right there, so my thinking was to make that baffle just high enough to contain substrate. This way I can utilize that entire volume ( almost) before my sump runs dry. Pick your poison I suppose.

ATO?

Sorry bud, been too long. Old guy is old lol.




Didn't think I would have the space available - I had an idea, but it didn't work out. As it turned out I never did set one up. Certainly would be the way to go should you build that last wall higher. As I said, many ways to get it done.

Tunze Osmo

after re-assembly. now to sand, restain, and get some molding.

sweetness!

Stand reassembled with new lumber???

nah, same old stuff. but it's solid. i think it'll be fine.

for sump baffles, i can use 1/8" glass, right?

and 1/4" for the overflows?

yawn.

yawn.

Stop it D!

... ya made me yawn too.

Why does that happen?

i wanna go to petco to get a $20 tank, but i don't want to go now. but i'm afraid they'll be sold out by tomorrow after work.

conundrum

meh, i'm just gonna go tomorrow.

procrastination

yep, lol.

Why do something now when you can think about doing it later?

exactly.

picking up a used eheim 1260 today.

Is it close to petco?

he's meeting me at my office, then i'm heading to petco, lol.

Convenience > Procrastination.


Nice pump choice. 20 long or high?

sump is gonna be 20L. and i'm getting a deal on that pump too - $40 plus some flame algae, lol.

That flame algae might as well be currency! Oh, and DH, what do you think? Will tomorrow be the big day? I see it's in NY as of Saturday.

ha! i haven't even checked, lol. if it was in NY sat, i be it'll get here today or tomorrow.

and that flame algae is going to fund this entire new tank, lol.

Cool!


I just hacked mine back quite a bit a few weeks ago, and it's already completely grown back. I'm thinking of starting a second bush, so that I can get even more growth. The downside is that I don't sell much of it locally. Might have to start shipping soon. Now that I think of it, I need to hack it back some tonight, because it was starting to cover the AOGs again.

the benefit of a large city is that there are tons of people here to sell things to. i might have sold my wii (still waiting for final confirmation) 15 min. after listing it, lol.

Nice! I think there are a lot of people in the area who would be interested, but the problem is that many of them are old school reefers who haven't caught on to this new-fangled inner-net thingamajig. Oh, and the local club has both a website of its own, and a subforum on RC, so I guess quite a few of the members just frequent the subforum rather than the club's own forum. I may have to list some flame algae on there. One local reefer suggested ebay. I might give that a try... and I might list here on NR too.

yeah, i don't list on NR because I don't want to ship. shipping's a pita.

Indeed it is! Although, with flame algae, just a little bit of water and a flat rate USPS box would make it pretty easy. Just need to stock up on small shipping bags.

i hate going to the usps more than i hate going to the doctor.

Dropbox.

i usually bring the box to work, but then i have to carry it on the subway. i'd just rather not ship at all, lol.

If no one bites on my aquac remora shortly, though, i'll post it here and ship.

Ah yes, you and your big city commute. I suppose that does put a damper on shipping. It would also put a damper on receiving packages by mail, especially that fusion reactor.

I like being able to drive to work. Right now, I walk a few blocks from my free parking spot, but come this fall, I should have a parking spot right behind my office.

" Very cosmopolitan. "

You have any sump plans yet?

20L w/ baffles, like what Richie did. I'm not sure where that pic went.

Nice - I hope you have better luck with silicone then me. It was a war and I totally lost. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to put the silicone in between the baffles so I just figured no one will see this. But it bothers me to this day that I made a mess of it.

i'm getting glass baffles cut. last time i did baffles, I just put the baffle in place and then siliconed the seam and spread it between the glass with my finger. it's never pretty, but who cares because it's a sump.

Replace toll with tool please.

Slow day at work Henry? thanks.

Just got the pump...it's a beast!

Are you hard plumbing or using tubing?

I just had to decide and I went with the hard plumbing with a 1/2" adapter on the end with about 1 - 2 feet of high pressure vinyl tubing. I have yet to install it but I hope tonight I will and I can then get pictures of the first dry run of plumbing.

Tubing for me.

Sorry, I'll quit cluttering you thread if you want me to.

no way man. keep it coming.

I found something a bit funny today from Fox News' Talking Points section:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PEGGY WEST, MILWAUKEE [County Democrat] SUPERVISOR: If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they have a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is removed from the border.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Chairman, I just wanted to assure my colleague that Arizona does in fact share a border with the country of Mexico.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

holy crap.