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You could easily build your own stand and canopy. If you had a circular saw, miter box, and a good square you could build one pretty easy. I posted pictures ( 125 DIY stand progress ) in the DIY forum. I saved litteraly hundreds of dollars and it was a lot of fun. I used oak which cost a lot...

Well I have started the process of moving the reef into it's new 125 gallon home. I will post a new thread as soon as I am done in a couple days.

RO water removes everything from the water. Most salt mixes assume that you will use tap water that has some buffering capacity and some calcium. So when you mix with RO, you usually should throw in a spoon of buffer and a shot of calcium to replace what the RO unit took out of the tap water...

Did you sell everything or do you have some left over.

I had those snails in my tank for about 6 months and then one evening out of the blue I noticed litteraly 50 or 60 tiny snails. They are getting bigger and new ones are popping up all of the time.

After all of the wood, glue, screws, stain and sealer I spent about 175 dollars and about 12 hours work not counting drying times. I figure that the canopy should run no more than 100 dollars and I will have wood left over.

Well the only thing left to do is put on the last door and move the reef in. The canopy will be the next project

Rhomer. The reason why I mentioned a chiller is that I had a 4-65 watt PC retro on my 90 and in the summer I had to run fans to keep my tank at 82 which I think was to warm. Now I did not say that Aliciak will have to run a chiller, just probably will unless the canopy or hood is well...

4-65 watts will probably require a chiller unless you have a hood with lots of venilation and fans going. PC's run pretty hot. I really like VHO and If you upgrade to a bigger tank you can use the VHO's for actinics and go with MH or more VHO. VHO's run cooler than PC. You could start with...

If your screen name was dave then I would have known. I will talk to you at work.

I am planning on using large external doors. I am also going to put 2 by 2 braces in the corners and in the middle front and back. There will be 2- 2" vertical braces where the doors will meet together. There will be two sets of two doors with trim around the doors. The picture does not...

Are you in the navy at whidbey. I will be transfering my 90 gallon reef into my new 125 after I finish my stand. I plan on selling the tank/ stand / canopy and a prizm skimmer for 300.00. I also have a 2-65 watt CSL power compact setup that I was going to sell seperate but pretty cheap with 3...

This is a shot from inside the stand

The stand is made of 3/4 inch oak and the top and bottum frame is pine. This is what I got done today. I will post more picts as I get more done

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If you buy the wood at lowes, they will cut it for you. I would make the front piece as wide as the tank . Mine has the sides visible and that was just me measuring wrong. I used a table router to round the edges.

I made the canopy first with wood from one store and the stand later on from another store and it was the cheapest wood in stock they had. I am currently starting a 135 gallon stand and canopy and plan on using oak the whole way around. I used golden oak stain on the stand and canopy. It was...

The tank has matured to where I only spend about 5 minutes a day feeding and adding in buffer. Once a month I clean the magnum and skimmer and every other week I change 10 gallons.

I got this 40 gallon for free without a desent stand and no top, so I built both for 60 dollars total.