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yeah bro Oceanic. 5/8 inch glass. I beg friends to come over to help me lift and move this tank around. I think it'll be up and running by this weekend. Rehabbing this monster has been a chore to say the least
It's over now, time to re-group and re-build
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I was begging with beer, but I'll step it up a notch with some pulled pork and brisket. Good idea!
Ill be there!
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I had these ball valves left over and laying around and was going to use them to be able to turn of flow to minimize back siphoning during maintenance. come to find out there is not much back siphoning going on when the pump is shut off. I put a union close to the bottom of all the bulkheads so I can switch out plumbing easily down the road if I so choose to do so.
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Sorry, bud, but my daughter's prom has to take precedence or I'd make the trip for some gen-u-ine Texas brisket.
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Well, you'll have to catch us the next time. Out door is always open!
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After some head scratching and numerous trips to the home improvement srore, I came up with this. External MRC SM1 beckett style skimmer powered by a Mag 12. The first chamber is where the water will dreain and where my gate valve for the skimmer is plugged in. There was no more romm in the sump, but this works and I like it. I may put my marinepure brick in this chamber also. The middle chamber will be a macro algae section, followed by the return section. The return section holds the heartbeat behind this with the Reef Octopus Varios 6. This DC return pump is rated just above 1700 gph. There will also be a Brightwell aquatics media brick..
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New rock structure. 20 high x 26 wide. Held together with a plastic polymer and Marco cement
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Scape, water, and salt. Btw the bottom is painted to look like sand
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The very left side was held together with a plastic polymer.
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The tank has been cycling for 3 weeks now. Today I hung my light and plumbed the external skimmer. The rebuild is complete!
Hey John, nice to see you on here too! The internet is a small world too!
@john.m.cole3, I've seen the tank but you should update for the r2r people. It's looking great.
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I do love sail fin tangs.
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