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[reewik]

Make me some pickles please...I am looking forward to seeing what you do with you scaping. Are you going to do an imediate move or gradual?

 

[pickupman66]

are you going LED or halides for it?

 

[FF337]

tagging along for the build. I am in the process of putting mine together as well.

 

[fraghunter]

Are you doing a DIY algae scrubber tagging along here

 

[NeveSSL]

I'm sure he is. What are the details on your scrubber, Mike?

Brandon

 

[gmoney243]

No pickles eric and ill probably just move everything over including water since I can't think of a good reason to wipe clean and start over exept to get rid of bristleworms ..

I will be using my LEDs I have now just build an additional 2' to it and probably add some more colors.

Scrubber will be a simple gravity fed with cfl for the moment although I have been debating asking our resident acrylic expert if he can make me a small box with leds lighting it

 

[reewik]

wait a minute, we have a resident acrylic expert????????

 

[gmoney243]

oops .. no ...

 

[gmoney243]

Fri and sat was busy but today I finally got time to drain and wipe the tank. After 2 day soak what was keft melted off

 

[reewik]

Ok you got it all clean, now dirty that sucker up man!

 

[gmoney243]

Ok you got it all clean, now dirty that sucker up man!

pretty much lol .. just been to busy with work and family this weekend .. but im off tues-thurs so hopefully these nxt few days will have some progress

 

[gmoney243]

Added new background

 

[mixer911]

looks nice mike. I like the blue background too. I used to do my tanks with blue as well.

 

[killereef]

Isnt that tank has a smoke glass in the back? I used to have one like that but I think Mine was a 220 or 180, mine was smoked.

 

[poolkeeper1]

looks nice mike. I like the blue background too. I used to do my tanks with blue as well.

Not sure about the Blue with Black overflows on both ends?? Have to wait and see with Rock and full of water it may be fine in the end.
Bill

 

[gmoney243]

Killer its just reg glass. The background can b changed also if it doesn't work I thought the same at first bill but once I fitted it thought it looked nice

 

[reewik]

I was gonna do a mirror background to give the allusion of a deeper tank.... Should have tried it.

 

[gmoney243]

I was gonna do a mirror background to give the allusion of a deeper tank.... Should have tried it.

sounds cool wonder what it would actually look like. have you ever heard of shadow boxes? if not look them up they are cool idea where u build a box with stuff in it and light it behind your tank with like blue clear acrylic and suppose to look like stuff off in distance like your underwater lots of different designs including one i was some guy had a tank behind it so you saw fish and stuff shadows moving behind the tank.

 

[reewik]

hmmm.... Well all I need to do is move the tank... NOT

 

[gmoney243]

bucket o rocks

empty 150

temp home for corals and fish/new sump 55g