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Originally Posted by nissan577 hey bro! man its change! lol i love the tile! it look amazing! and bro its an amazing build! what else you waiting for? thanks. just waiting for the water to cycle. i tossed in corals out of an old frag tank but other then that i wont be adding anything new until...

At last the accent tiles i ordered came in. Stupid things too forever. I love mix of different blue glasses and stainless steal cubes. I put them all in this weekend and put up some molding. i will add the grout some times this week and then begin to skin the stand and add the doors

Originally Posted by Sir Mixxalot oceana the renters insurance money from when we got borken into is coming in today so i will finally have a computer again!! my job is still restricting the pictures from showing so i cant wait to see all of it tonight!! that sucks but good to know its...

Originally Posted by fishkid13 Its coming along good. What is a random halide? it means i just close my eyes and pic one out of a box. whatever i get i use. j/k it says RADIUM not random. radium is a brand of bulb

Originally Posted by premilove beast. no actinics? no need for that. i use radium halides. nothing makes a corals look nicer then a radium halide IMO

Originally Posted by GreenReefer looks awesome. What room of the house is this in? the garage. well what was the garage anyhow. now this is just about all thats in there

this past weekend I installed a air conditioner wired a few halide ballast and hung the light rail with reflectors my goal was to figure out at last what type if any water cooling i was going to have to go with. At first I got a fair size chiller to handle the cooling but then I thought it...

Originally Posted by CoosKid How are water changes going to be done? The power station is awesome. THANKS. The water changes are done buy a pipe that i ran into our gutter system that run out to the street gutters. all i do is turn a gate valve and empty as much water as i want. the new...

Originally Posted by CoosKid Less talk, more pics!!! put into cooling and lighting this weekend. after that it will be nothing but cosmedic stuff and a long wait for a good cycle.

Originally Posted by GreenReefer The build is looking awesome. if it were me I don't know if I'd be able to keep my hands out of that tank :) i want to put my whole body in the tank. not just my hands lol. the other day when i was doing the tile i had to get into the tank to reach the back. i...

Originally Posted by GrouperGenius Crazy week so far...you probably want to sand down the edges of those boxes to keep from cutting a hole in the liner. thanks . my wife and i were talking about that yesterday. I was going to sand it down a small amount and then go over it with a torch to...

Originally Posted by fishkid13 waiting on a light rail i am having made and the tiles we ordered. cant do much without those but updates will come this week

You find expensive acans but not really any rare ones. They are a very hardy and abundant coral so there are not any that i would consider rare. IMO you can apply that to most types of coral. There is a big different between "rare" and "horded to be sold at top dollar".

Originally Posted by fishkid13 So they float? Won't they tip over or run into a coral or something? no they wont tip the are water tight and float. think of it like a glass bottom boat. lots of surface area like a flats boat so they only sink into the water about a 1/4 inch. they will not hit...

Originally Posted by fishkid13 Looks good. Are the boxes going to sit on a stand in the water? I like the tile touch to it. Thanks the boxes stay in the water. this way you can just walk up to the reef and move them around all you want to see whatever part fo the reef you want to.

Originally Posted by bullitr picture taken early Friday morning .getting more frags next week Tank is looking great. If ya dont mind me asking why do you choose 10 k lighting?? you have said yourself that things dont look very good because of the 10k lighting. If you put some 14k or even...

today we finished up the returns and started to tile the top. should finish the tile by tomorrow night. the blank spots you see will be for decrative accent tiles but i had to order them. molding will go along with outside and inside edge and then we will start to skin the bottom in this...

more pics to come soon. today i started to paint everything and get it ready to do the tiles on the top. if all goes well should be done tonight with atleast that part.

Originally Posted by biggdriver Hi guys I have read the whole thread and wow. Just a few questions I have. First I would like to raise Rots not for clowns but for my corals, and mandarins etc. Down the road maybe for clowns but not now. I am ok buying rotifer egg cultures, hatching them out and...

I got the new viewing boxes today. I think it make looking into the reef great. its like your own personal reverse periscope. Color will really pop against the black