capty99

hey non - if it hasnt shipped shoot me a pm if you don't mind and i'll add mine to the order asap. just if there was some sort of delay orsomething.

thanks

yeah, lemme know when you take more pics, maybe i should be the one to make a tutorial of what to do and what not to do.... and then get millions of reefer's hits and make billions of dollars off advertising.

your canopy seems tall - is that normal? what distance are you aiming for off the water?

thanks those do help - and yes i'm gonna retro.

I've googled and just not found anything a) seemingly new or b) well made (haha) so I'm just seeing if you guys have one in your bookmarks that might help me out.

So far I've DIY'ed my entire tank so why not go ahead and do the lighting / canopy as well. I have my MH already set up in a pendant that I can easily move to the hood I believe, but as far as T5's go I have never worked with them so need help there.

Your help is appreciated.

are you selling the light? is it a 36 or 48 if you are?

nvm , just saw your selling it as a unit - if you decide to part out i'm interested if that light is 48

when doing the canopy - are those pieces of wood sticking out just going to rest on the top of the thing or are you going to get more contact then that? jw about doing mine, if the top should be supported all the way around by the frame or if just the corners might work

only reason i knew about tonight was your posting on this forum so thats why i stopped by.

i'm fine with the spitting and poisoning you but am going to say that getting it in your eye or face is most likely bad luck for you, good luck for them. most of the time your gonna be bending over the tank with only your face at a possible angle, or in a similar position, i agree with rest of article.... just that one line.

how do i go about joining the order?

i'm gonna go ahead and call bs on this line : " and somehow they seem to have the ability to aim for the mouth and eyes of the propagator."

thanks alot. now all i want for my tank is like 8 baby mandarins. .... so have they invented a way to keep them babies yet?

not a 1 or 2 but i have a nano. $15

Of course, the problem is that I am plumbed to an infinite source of water. If the reservoir float switch fails, then I can pump a ton of water. However, this is essentially the same thing we all have in our toilet tank, and no one worries about those failing. If they failed, it would have the same problem.

but the main time that fails is <5 minutes after you mess with it. if i had left the house after using the toilet it would be a huge problem .... with your setup the water change happens whenever so you won't have incentive to watch it. (i think)

i would double up on protection for that .

thanks truckin - looks good in my tank

let me know if its not gone - will take all at once

i'm looking for a skimmer if you part out lets talk - will be out of town till sunday night

ha, i appreciate it, i live at 38th, and the home depot is at 42nd i believe, you really can't beat the commute but yes, their lumber guy was lacking. I will give props to the guy in plumbing though who helped me out. If I do another stand I'll swing by the lowe's though.

thanks for the answers everyone, appreciated

my peppermints were the attackers in my tank, and took out a hermit. i thought they were just all going to get along .

I had no idea that cleanup crews required such big populations per tank. Good to know. (My picoreef knowledge is not directly transferable to the big tank)

I'll take any of your mods to quiet the tank. I have mine in my bedroom (I know its gonna be somewhat noisy but I sleep with the tv on and not seeing it as a problem..) so I want it as quiet as possible.

- Trying to think of ways to quiet the pump in my sump. Just wrapping it with some type of foam? If so, what is safe for aquariums?

- I'm gonna DIY a muffler for my overflow, anyone got links they would like to share or advice on this one?

- The majority of my noise seems to be coming from the fact I don't have a skinned stand yet. It's open underneath. When I skin it , has anyone tried anything like noise dampening padding on the inside of the walls (or I think they even have a paint out there nowadays that does a similar thing)

Can I just say I'm a DIY whiz kid?

I've never before plumbed (thanks alot Dad) -- never before done any real woodwork besides the really basic stuff (thanks AGAIN Dad) and definitely never done anything electrical (I'll give him this one - if he had taught me I would have blown myself up) and I've done all three of those in the past week thanks to a new tank. I'm thinking these are life lessons any 23 year old should have, things I learned :

a) make a list for home depot, no matter how smart you are, you will forget and then come home with the wrong pvc fittings. Luckily I live close by, but I won't say how many trips I made because its comical.

wood is not ok to be "pretty straight" -- screw the home depot employee waiting on you.. dig through the pile for the good stuff.

c) while setting up a table to cut all your pvc inside so you can watch football sounds like a GREAT idea, it is not. Cleanup is impossible.

d) any corner you try to cut results in an hour to two hours later you worrying about it causing your stand to collapse and you go and undue it, and do it the right way. it would be better to do it the right way from the start.

e) power tools are awesome and you should collect more of them.

ANYWAYS -- Question time

I built the stand, plumbed it, filled it with water , and sand in record time. Normally a bad thing but since I planned it for a while I'm in a good position. So, the sand is from an established tank of 2+ years (thanks fellow austin reefer) and since he had a 110, in my 55 I have a DSB... so gonna try something new with that. Then there is some sand from my 10g nano, and my LR from that. The water is 90% new, the rest from the other tank. What kind of cycle should I be expecting from this? I'm gonna drop in some dry rock I think, and just seed it with the LR I already have in there so tank won't be up for a while, just wondering.

Heating issues - I know a lot of you guys have chillers. I've never had heat problems because of the small tank, but I've also never had pumps in there. How much heat does a pump put off? or is it the bigger light systems that put out the majority of the heat?

sold

I would say 5-10x in the sump but 30-35x total flow

thanks that helps with a question i had

sorry should have checked this off, someone opened one up in the sell and i picked it up

How did I get a negative user rating? Apparently didn't make someone happy -- just wish they had told me via pm or something and we could have resolved it. Didn't know I did anything out of the ordinary....

i have heard recently what people say is more accurate (dunno if thats true) 3 in of fish per 1 sq/ft of air exchange. so my 55 at 4 feet long + 13 inches wide = 4 sq/ft so about 12 inches of fish.

lets hope this happens to my sps birdnest my roommate tried to kill while i was out of town