The fact that not everyone has a tank this size is absurd!
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I DID have the local police department over for a picnic like "yo please don't raid me I'm not growing weed". however the primary use of this aquarium is to be a haven for Lil' Purp. if you don't know the legend of Little Purple, here's a primer.The fact that not everyone has a tank this size is absurd!
Do you have to register this new body of water with the Department of the Interior?!
Absolutely following this, love your tank, LOVE your humor.
I can relate slightly with the house fixing portions, I bought an old house and from the surface looked good, just ugly so we redid the kitchen from metal cabinets to wood and ended up redoing siding, windows, the whole flooring including floor joists, all the plumbing and sheetrock. Windows leaked, plumbing under sink leaked and an old chimney leaked for years so they're was hidden extensive water damage. That was fun while pregnant. We did all the work ourselves and I was still painting when I went into labor and then I installed the wood flooring a week after birth. However having so much of my house open we really got to looking at build quality and we found out the house is really beefy, all full dimension lumber, rough cut, not like today's wimpy 2x4s. Then all walls,floors and ceiling is thick tongue and groove under all sheetrock and subfloor. So much wood in this house.
But now you know your windows aren't leaking anymore and your power supply is definitely more than ready for all the crazy things you'll be using! Great build! I'd throw out my couch for that tank! Who needs to sit when you can look at that all day?!
Oh yeah not pictured was a huge renovation project. New hvac new roof new hot water new heater, rewired the whole house, smart housed way up, security system, new floors new siding, new windows. Now I just gotta do the bathrooms.
As for the furniture there is a tank watching couch and I'm on the hunt for the most epic of recliners for my man chair.
I DID have the local police department over for a picnic like "yo please don't raid me I'm not growing weed". however the primary use of this aquarium is to be a haven for Lil' Purp. if you don't know the legend of Little Purple, here's a primer.
@DigitalFishAquariums So impressed with everything you have done! You have been through a major test of patience. Love seeing your journey. I have really enjoyed working with you. Some of the calls better than others for sure. You have taken everything is stride and made an incredible display. I am really impressed. I am following!!!Once upon a time, I started keeping reef Aquariums. About ten years after that, I got a degree in Marine Biology. About Ten years after that, I saw where an ocean was not, and in defiance of decisions of gods, the ways men, and the natural law of order, I built an 800 gallon reef tank.
These are the voyages of the gigareef.
So how does someone get into something like this? Well, it kind of started when my kids showed an interest in my 80 gallon frag tank which was a display for a plywood coral farm I was running as a hobby at the time.
I started getting lots of help, and I was asked why we couldn't see my big corals, only my little corals in the 80.
When you reef, you reef together, as everyone knows:
So we embarked on a two year pandemic project journey to see the big corals, per my kids request.
The first thing we got was a skimmer, I chose the Rk2 AC8, because it was taller than the AC5 and my buddy insisted I get one that was at least five feet tall, so I did
Here it is put together, next to my nano skimmer for my 20 for scale
Much to everyone's surprise I hadn't used a UV skimmer before, and I guess since I was building there's a first time for everything, I got one of those too, this is the 6 foot long RK2 XLF5-150H rated for up to 2000 gallons :
I got some small cannisters for media from bashsea
fun fact, I buy media in five gallon buckets.
I got a few rocks (1 ton, from pristine rock, they're great I recommend them www.pristinerock.com)
I rinsed my sand in a 100 gallon rubbermade bin soon to be my sump and turned my sidewalk white
Made a few LIGHT changes to the floor.
Fun fact the owner of the house before me didnt' wait for the concrete to dry before rafting an engineered wood floor on the extension so I had to repour concrete in the whole house, we discovered my windows were not watertight and had to do a reside-ing on the house. I got new windows, it was fun.
BUT! Back to the floor. I poured and leveld concrete, than lay slate tile. it was BIBLICALLY level. We're talking true level here Morty, I got familiar with the bubble.
IS very nice.
Then came time to weld and powder coat the stand. getting chromolly steel during the pandemic was hard, I got my welding friend to help, he did most of the work to be honest, and I got my aerospace friend to sign off on the structure engineering numbers and xray our welds:
put some PVC, started playing with rocks for visualization
put in a BUNCH of work cutting, leveling, skinning in plywood, tapping in and drilling leveling feet:
since i couldn't get the stand under my drill press, I was using dewalt clamps and jigs
kinda looked like a chicken with the leveling feet, so i cut them all down and re-threaded them
once the stand was done, we had to use a test aquarium to see if it worked out
next post: the wiring and plumbing, probably.
The tank is from Glasscages, they're great. Their support is great, their team is great, and their prices are great. I had an error on MY part cause a leak and they wanted super hard to support me, but I made the mistake, so I paid for it.
Good or bad, ugly or perfect, I set out with a drawing I made when I was 8, "none such exist" I said, so I had to make it myself. Thanks for being a part of it.@
@DigitalFishAquariums So impressed with everything you have done! You have been through a major test of patience. Love seeing your journey. I have really enjoyed working with you. Some of the calls better than others for sure. You have taken everything is stride and made an incredible display. I am really impressed. I am following!!!
I would do what you can to remove as much as you can... You don't want that getting out of control. Also check your phosphates. Likely high if that is showing up. If so, you want to get them down but not to 0. Phosphates can get absorbed by sand and rock and then continuously leach back into your system feeing GHA in the future. Its awful, ask me how I know.Small update, I was all overconfident about my ugly stage, because i skipped the cyano diatom era, but yo velvet came in on some frag or CUC, and the hair algae is REAL right now with all my tangs in QT.
C'THULU IS REAL AND HIS MADNESS LIVES IN MY LIVING ROOM.
It's good my man, keep me honest! Yeah phos and nos has been close to undetectable forever I'm just trying to get up a critical mass of bioload.... It helpa the skimmer takes 5 gallons of skimmate out a week.I would do what you can to remove as much as you can... You don't want that getting out of control. Also check your phosphates. Likely high if that is showing up. If so, you want to get them down but not to 0. Phosphates can get absorbed by sand and rock and then continuously leach back into your system feeing GHA in the future. Its awful, ask me how I know.
Edit: I just realized who's thread this was. You probably know all that...
no one has that picture!!!! if anyone had it i would absolutely do it.
ya know, gotta stay with the reasonable theme....It should be noted my UV is a little nuts, and is rated for 5000 gph and to treat 2000 gallon tanks, is 6 feet long.....
100% reasonable. 100% not a theme.ya know, gotta stay with the reasonable theme....
Glad it all seems to work out so far!