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Chapter II is not for the faint of heartAwesome thread!
The other thing I think is nice in that pic is the purple mushroom in the bottom corner. It’s almost 6” in diameter.
For sure. That Vlamingi is probably 10” long. He’s a horse.Holy cow!
That puts things into perspective!
Haha, well...the only reason I’m sharing it all is because somebody else was responsible for it.On the other forum I had a guy with a pretty amazing build thread tell me he was envious that I had no worry about posting the bad things that happen in my thread, and he wished he could do the same without feeling nervous it would make people second guess all his opinions, and experience.
Another friend was silent for a few months, after having been asked a few dozen times why there's been no updates he broke silence to say he had AEFW take over his tank. On the other hand, I've also got a friend that shared immediately when AEFW was found in his.
Some people put in everything. Some people don't.
cheers! I salute your determinationNow, Hell’s Corner doesn’t just refer to the area above the tank.
Immediately below is yet another labyrinth of failure that defies all reason and explanation. But that’s for tomorrow.
Right now I need a drink.
Billable hours help me maintain focus and drive!cheers! I salute your determination
Haha, yeah...none of that is happening. It’s all custom cabinetry that is the same cabinetry throughout the kitchen.I seriously would rip the wall out and reconstruct.
Billable hours help me maintain focus and drive!
Now, here is where I am enlisting the help of the R2R crew. Today I had a ‘state of the tank’ with the client, and got the green light to reinvent the tank somewhat.
My main contention...believe it or not, the rotting drywall and lack of access are liveable inconveniences...is that the two black boxes (one around the beam and Hell’s Corner) are prime real estate, but are unsightly and require being somehow hidden. This is a major PIA, mainly because of gravity.
Here’s where getting the OK to revamp has me amped: I can now turn the upper half of the tank into SPS dominated. That means (fingers crossed) that I can now manufacture some way to get stuff anchored to those boxes, start attaching frags etc, and let things in the top half grow horizontally as much as vertically (again, fingers crossed).
Then, the lower half can be some of the larger pieces of rock in the tank (and several pieces are 10lbs and up) place to build an elaborate reef structure but, because it would no longer have to support a bunch of rocks balanced on top of it as it currently exists, it could be moved away from the center and open up even more floor space. The lower half would house more LPS and softies.
I’m also considering building a semi-permanent pillar-type structure loaded with SPS frags on the top and upper sides that would be placed in the middle.
So, what tips and ideas do you guys have for achieving this? Here is a (not to scale) rough sketch of the back corner:
I’ve got 2 Maxspect 250s and 1 Icecap gyre that I will incorporate but would like to be somewhat hidden. The returns currently come out in front of the overflow, but I can move those things anywhere because I can just plumb along the top of the tank and have outputs more or less wherever I want them.
I can also drill through the upper part of the overflow to make mounts for some sort of flatter shelves, but I can’t do anything like that with that dry chamber. The PVC line in the dry chamber currently is no longer in use, so once I cap off those bulkheads, I could squeeze magnets in there.
What ideas do you guys have? Maybe my guy @Sallstrom has something up his sleeve, given that he is deep in that mode right now.