crabs new 24" cube

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after putting in bulbs im not all that impressed with the par numbers and im a bit unshure if the teks are gonna be stayin which really sucks since even though i got them for good prices if i sell them now brand new ill probably loose a bunch and have to spend a bunch more on something else.[/QUOTE]

The units are too far off the water? We could rig something up to drop the units down in the canopy? The 12" tall thang was to accommodate the mh pendant or whatever the original plan was.

[i have crabs]

right now thier about 10" from where the water line will be and ill drop them down quite a bit when the water goes in, on my 48" light the par goes up about 50 points from the highest to lowest point on the legs, right now thier is 1x22k 2x10k and 5xfiji's but ill be changing 1 or 2 of the fijis to 10k or something else

[i have crabs]

went and picked up the sump and thankfull it fit through th back of the stand without a problem since i made it as big as possible,
its 19"x20" and 18" tall,
the 2 holes are for the drains then they pour into the skimmer area which pours into the return pump area, the space in the right back corner is a small fuge which will have water pumped through the bulkhead and overflow back into the return pump area


thankfully the skimmer fit also since i didnt leave much extra room and i ordered the sump before buying the skimmer

[i have crabs]

ill be finishing the plumbing over the next few days i hope but for now im gonna try to cover the back pain of glass and overflow with rocks,
i went and bought a cut off disk for a hand grinder i have.id rather use a big chop saw but i dont have one and im not gonna go buy one unless i have too
first step was trying to cut a rock in half without losing my fingers, for my test run i cut up a reef rock which is fairly solid but still didnt go all that bad, wasnt much fun but i was shure not to wear any safty equipment or proper tools so that helped im shure




the black crud washed right off no prob

i have some extra glass lids so im trying to attach the pieces so i can find out if this is even going to work or not, first piece i glued with mr.sticky which is a epoxy type glue
the second piece i used deltec epoxy and i had another flat piece that i tried to silicone
so im not gonna touch it till morning and hopefully one of the 3 will work like majic