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Originally Posted by kien (Post 476796)

You and me both! Unfortunately the reality of the holidays set in..

I would love to grab some of your pipe :biggrin: But again, the holidays has set in at the household so I doubt I'd be able to make it up that way anytime soon. :cry:

It's not going anywhere anytime soon.. haha:lol:

BTW: Update?

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 476617)

Since I had nothing better to do on Christmas eve

WHAAT!?:confused:

I wish I had that kind of freedom with my wife.:wink:

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Originally Posted by schroeder (Post 477457)

WHAAT!?:confused:

I wish I had that kind of freedom with my wife.:wink:

Get a new wife? LOL! Just kidding. (sort of, maybe).

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Originally Posted by kien (Post 477458)

Get a new wife? LOL! Just kidding. (sort of, maybe).

Nah! She's a keeper.
She hates my current tank. It is my first, and it was an experiment for me. It's a 5 gallon nano with a sump in an open stand. The pump is noisy, and she doesn't like the look of the sump, so I made her a deal that I would get rid of it...

...on condition that I build another showpiece tank, (the 5 gallon is too small anyway) so I'm doing a 40 breeder, shallow tank on a homebuilt stand (I like making furniture) with a 24" geismann infinity. I got away with justifying the expense by promising to make it bootiful, and she bought it!

I'm watching this build closely, because I want to see what you've got in mind for aquascaping and stocking. I've seen some beautiful shallow tanks posted elsewhere, but I want more ideas before I plan the layout of my own.

I'm debating a closed loop. Are you planning on one?

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Originally Posted by schroeder (Post 477462)

If your sump is wide open for everyone to see then I would agree with your wife that it is probably quite unsightly :lol:

I'm still planning (in my head) how I want to aquascape this tank. At first I was just going to dump some (live) rocks in there and be done with it since this wasn't really meant to be a display tank. However, now that I've seen the tank on its stand I'm starting to really fall in love with it and am wanting to put more effort into making it more of a display(ish) tank and have some fun.

I am not personally a fan of closed loops. I appreciate their benefits but every time I try to formulate a closed loop system (a few times for my 150g tank, and a few times for this tank), I am never happy with how it turns out for various reasons. That's just me though :-)

We need pics of it on the stand...please. :wink:

Anybody who's ANYONE runs Vortechs. I've always believed that.

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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 477563)

i've always believed that.

liar!!

The first part is true though.. ;)

I do love the idea of Vortechs.. however, every time I pick up the box and drool over it, my euphoria is quickly squashed by the price tag, then I start to twitch a little.. :lol:

I guess I will never get to sit at the cool kids table :(