Well, a little bit more progress today. I went to a friend's place and picked up some sand that was in his tank for over 10 years. He had about a 5" sand bed and he was redoing his tank because all of his sps corals had grown to the surface so he had to harvest out the skeleton base of the rock and lower all the sps to halfway down his tank again. He decided to cut the sand bed in half to about 2-3" because deep sand beds are sort of a thing of the past. So I got all his old sand. It's been sitting spread out a bit in his back yard for a couple of weeks already. I took it home and my whole family helped me wash it out. I quad rinsed it a bit at a time with the water that was in my tank. I am done my water testing so I watered my lawn/garden/filled my rainbarrel, watered house plants and rinsed the sand with my leak/system tank water (I drained it because I am using RO/DI water).
Here are a couple of pics of the washing. You can see in the pictures how dirty the water is.
While we were doing this, my son out of the blue says "Man, this is dirty business". We thought it was hilarious.
I also got the hardware and mounted my other 2 lights.
View from cabinet side:
View from picture frame side:
With only the middle 150watt on (I still have to wire the 250 watt pendants to the ballast):
And finally a view from OUTSIDE my house. I have a 5' x 6' window at my front porch of my house. So it'll be quite a view from the street.
Thanks for looking.