Another Recent Back Office Project...

**FlowerhornNYC** · 10-12-2011, 06:16 PM

BEAUTIFUL setup Mike & Terry
Your fishes collection are outstanding. I've been following your tank thread in RC for awhile now & learn alot from you. I'll be setting up a tank similar to your soon. Thanks for sharing with us

**underwaterfirefighter** · 10-12-2011, 07:28 PM

Awesome set up you have there. Love the stand with granite top. Everything looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

**Reef lvr** · 10-12-2011, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by m and m

I wanna take a VA trip and see this and craig's in person one day, they truely are both amazing.

+++1 that i agree!!! Sweet setup!!! Would love to see it in person

**revsgirl** · 10-12-2011, 07:45 PM

You have exceptional pics! Your fish and coral are beautiful! Way to hang in there!

**Mike&Terry** · 10-13-2011, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by skinz78

Beautiful tank and an extremely clean install too! Kudos to you for keeping with it after all the fiasco!

Thank you skinz78! It really helps that we both share the same passion for this hobby.

Originally Posted by FlowerhornNYC

BEAUTIFUL setup Mike & Terry
Your fishes collection are outstanding. I've been following your tank thread in RC for awhile now & learn alot from you. I'll be setting up a tank similar to your soon. Thanks for sharing with us

Thank you FlowerhornNYC... We've learned so much in this hobby from fellow reefers and if we are able to give something back by documenting our experiences, then all the better! Good luck with your new tank and looking forward to seeing a build thread from you!

Originally Posted by underwaterfirefighter

Awesome set up you have there. Love the stand with granite top. Everything looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Dave!

Originally Posted by Reef lvr

+++1 that i agree!!! Sweet setup!!! Would love to see it in person

Thank you Reef lvr! and fellow reefers are always welcome.

Originally Posted by revsgirl

You have exceptional pics! Your fish and coral are beautiful! Way to hang in there!

Thank you Tonya!

**Mike&Terry** · 10-14-2011, 03:02 AM

Our new water storage and salt mixing station:

As part of our sump room re-design, we decided to setup a new water storage and salt mixing station. Here are some pics of the work in progress:

The plan (Mike's version of Sketchup)

The 100g storage vats and the Panworld 150PS pump:

These vats come with a 1.25" threaded bulkhead. Kind of an odd size, and so it took some time at the box stores to figure out which parts would get the job done without some Frankenstein plumbing thing hanging off of them.

The idea is to be able to move water between the vats, recirculate in the salt mix vat, and pump water out to some other location with the turn of a few handles. We love Spa Flex and this seemed like a natural application for that - we wouldn't want minor movements or adjustments harming the plumbing, and being able to move things around a little to fine tune the fit always helps. Here's how the intake valves look:

Here are the outlet valves, positioned up on top of the vats, with a creative plywood platform to mount them on:

And this little beauty was installed just for ME!

Mike finally got tired of me freaking out about electricity and water every time I had to plug a pump in and installed a nice little waterproof switch to turn the pump on/off...

We are really pleased with the way it turned out.

**Mike&Terry** · 10-14-2011, 03:28 AM

Recent under water video taken with our Panasonic camera:

**Mike&Terry** · 10-16-2011, 08:40 PM

We hosted our annual reef party last night and had an awesome turnout. In keeping with tradition, we asked our guests to bring canned goods to donate to our local food bank, but added a raffle into the mix. Our guests received 1 raffle ticket for every two canned items they brought.

We gave away quite a few items, including activated carbon, battery air pumps, algae sheet packs, Marine Depot promo items, Reef Geek t-shirts, a TLF VeggieMag and dip and pour containers. The two top items were a Hanna Phosphate Checker and a $50 gift certificate to Live Aquaria.

We are happy to report that we collected close to 150lbs of canned and dry goods. It was a lot of fun and a great way to give back to our community.

We also took some updated pics of the display and thought we'd share a few of them.

**soccerbag** · 10-16-2011, 08:49 PM

Looking good guys. Sorry I was unable to make it this weekend. I was out of town but heard it was a good time. Hope to see it in person soon though. And a great idea with the canned goods. Very cool!