Sauced and Confused (Lost Remix)

[acesfull44]

Man this looks awesome. Following along.

 

[OrchidMiss]

This thread makes me so happyyyy!!!
I know I was tagged in thought....

Can't wait to see it all come together! Jealous I can't have one of my own!

 

[sfin52]

Can't wait to see it wet

 

[shootingstar_reef]

I NEED MOAR PICS

 

[Nate Chalk]

@F i s h y promised a sump room pic @Lost in the Sauce .

 

[danieyella]

Umm..where's @F i s h y ??...:D

He's either alive as of this afternoon or B stole his phone and logged him into r2r to like my random ramblings :thinking-face:

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Alright kids, y'all have waiting impatiently long enough.

I'll start with sayin We're Beat. Follow with saying Most of a 30 pack is still in the fridge from Friday if that gives any indication. Been going hard.

First order of operation was getting the plumbing finished and leak free.

Once we were happy there, we layed out the rock to start with.

New rock I picked up locally, cheap.

Add here 60-70 pounds of cycled Marco rock and that's what we were working with.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Next was laying base rock and this is where I get very specific. This Entire scape is essentially hollow. As seen below, no pieces are touching each other. Every piece has clearance essentially All around it making a Massive amount of tunnels, caves and hiding spots. Just of these are accessed from the rear of the scape.

Continued building vertically, working towards the drawing reference on the front of the tank. Every layer is stacked like the base. Secure caverns.

Once we got here, the water was pretty blown out and we had been going about 7 hours on the rock. Switched gears to clean up and adding some non tangs into the tank.

Mag FoxFace
CBB
3 PJ Cardinals
3 baby Biota YT
2 Flasher Wrasse

At the end of the day, it looked like this

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

First thing today was washing an additional 50 pounds of sand and filling in the low spots. Washed it will enough that there was no cloud issue.

Lighting still needed hung, so a few pieces of scrap plywood and acrylic later, we have a lighting solution.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Started moving some coral over.

 

[Nate Chalk]

First thing today was washing an additional 50 pounds of sand and filling in the low spots. Washed it will enough that there was no cloud issue.

Lighting still needed hung, so a few pieces of scrap plywood and acrylic later, we have a lighting solution.

That looks dope. Id keep it

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

That looks dope. Id keep it

Thank you but this is a temporary fixture. The real solution is likely extruded aluminum abs modular. This is too visually bulky and cumbersome.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Yummy

 

[Stang67]

Thank you but this is a temporary fixture. The real solution is likely extruded aluminum abs modular. This is too visually bulky and cumbersome.

Tslot is the bomb.com
Designed the lightholder on mine myself. Stand designed and fabed by alufab.

 

[Mschmidt]

made it.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

With the overflow, glass box Volume is 320. 312 + 7~8g in the overflow.

Nice size tank. Will be following this one!

 

[MERKEY]

Starting to look real NICE LIKE ;)

 

[rtparty]

 

[sp1187]

A little sad I didn't get tagged to steal the non place holder post 1 :) who are the other peeps anyways ;) I recognize @GHOSTLY

Can't wait...

I fly out to help put this beast in motion next thursday!

if I had feelings they'd be hurt.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

if I had feelings they'd be hurt.

Everyone can have hurt ones if they got them.

Nobody got tagged yet as I haven't really committed to this thread yet.

Thought it may fly under the radar for a bit. I was wrong.