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What ever is a recent college graduate who's actively searching for aquarium industry jobs to do while stuck at home in a job desert during a pandemic? Shamelessly plug on R2R of course! And plan out a dream system. Oh! And finally update his parent's really old tank stand that's starting to split apart at the seams! Back in high school, I put in a lot of effort to earn the money to buy a 55 gallon tank and stand from walmart, intending for it to be a planted tank. After a convict cichlid population explosion, which decimated the plant and fish population, I decided to switch from a 29 reef to a 55. It's been about 7 or so years since then, and the tank (which I maintained throughout college when I came home for breaks), is still going relatively strong, housing a pair of ocellaris or percula clowns, a flame angel, and a hippo tang. Except for a nasty saltwater ich outbreak. Since I'm going to be letting the tank lie fallow anyways during the treatment period, I'll also treat the fish for their intestinal parasites and do the tank transfer method with them. I'm calling this a prelude to a build thread, since it's more of a practice build thread rather than an actual build thread which I categorize as gaining the tank, inhabitants, and everything else and putting it together. Anyways, here's the tank in its glory:
Right now, the bottom part of the stand is starting to bulge out, and the doors don't close anymore due to the swelling caused by salt creep and maybe a few water spills over the years...
And one of the hardest parts of the stand is that I don't have easy access to the sump, which while I can deal with it, makes the protein skimmer and heater rather inaccessible
I'd also like to move from hard PVC to flexible PVC as well...
Right now, the bottom part of the stand is starting to bulge out, and the doors don't close anymore due to the swelling caused by salt creep and maybe a few water spills over the years...
And one of the hardest parts of the stand is that I don't have easy access to the sump, which while I can deal with it, makes the protein skimmer and heater rather inaccessible
I'd also like to move from hard PVC to flexible PVC as well...