So a little good news I now have my light ring and I'm very impressed it was certainly the right way to go and it only weighs around 10lbs.
Also picked up the last of my plumbing plus some salt and tonight I start washing sand I got around 200-250 lbs to rinse so that's my Christmas lol
I have a dual stage reactor for carbon that the codfather picked up for me
thanks Bob
I'm gonna use it to run some carbon and gfo in my 33untill it's tear down time
the only thing holding me back now is a 1 1/2" gatevalve for my herbie overflow
untill I can get that gatevalve I'm just gonna run the tank as durso style for the freshwater fill
pics soon as the misses comes home from Christmas with the family