280g Inwall

[Boomboy]

that looks great, must be nice to be able to move your lights away from the tank. All the little things that really make the difference. Cant wait to see more.

[untamed]

Looks great!

Now...you'll want to put a light up in the ceiling between those two air intakes. That way, you'll still be able to see what you are doing when you roll the lights out of the way.

[brizzo]

Very nice Tony! I was looking at active threads, and I thought "When did Tony have a 280g in-wall ??" .. then I noticed the dates!

Good advice from banditpowdercoat! Nice easy fix!

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by untamed

Looks great!

Now...you'll want to put a light up in the ceiling between those two air intakes. That way, you'll still be able to see what you are doing when you roll the lights out of the way.

Thanks Brad. I have some spare 175's ballasts and a cheapy dual reflector I was thinking of using for that. I also have some N.I.B. ReefOptix reflectors I could use too, haven't quite decided if I'll use those instead or sell them. For the purpose of "temporary lighting" the cheapy DIY thing might be good enough..

Originally Posted by nazerine

Very nice Tony! I was looking at active threads, and I thought "When did Tony have a 280g in-wall ??" .. then I noticed the dates!

Yeah I know. It's been bad. I used to travel a lot for work, then I had kids then I had other projects, then I got down on the hobby for a while and thought about selling everything, then I would save up for equipment purchases .... I have a long list of excuses ..

I wish I had thought to photograph what the furnace ducts looked like originally. THAT was a huge project to fix up in itself. A lot of the challenges that have slowed me down have had nothing to do with setting up a tank and but instead have to do with fixing up builder's blunders, or renovating a basement, or running plumbing .. and then fixing the plumbing because I didn't do it right ... stuff like that.

[fishytime]

There's a guy that's dedicated to the hobby. *salute*

[brizzo]

Ok, so whats next?

[lastlight]

Posts like that are so cruel. I took it hook, line and skimmer.

Tony hurry up. Your evil twin grows impatient.

[Delphinus]

I guess technically the next step is I have to come back into the country. I'm currently in South America on a work trip! (Hola from Buenos Aires. Isn't it grand to waste international bandwidth on surfing one's favourite reef discussion forum??) Anyhow, it's, ah, slowed me down a little at the moment.

But I guess as far as recent progress goes, the last couple of weeks have been a question of moving livestock out of my 75g into my 110g cube so I can shut the 75g down. Why not just finish the 280g and move them into there straight from the 75g you may ask? .. I'm not sure. I guess mostly because I want the 75g out of the way so I can do the electrical for the 280g. And also to help defray the costs some more of recent purchases. Kinda disappointed that I see hardware I was hoping to use one day, listed for sale at great prices, and completely unable to buy them because I'm flat out broke. But also just in that I get to a point where all I can see is "obstacle" (in this case, the 75g) and maybe a more creative person could find a way to workaround said obstacle, I just become obsessed with removing the obstacle, .. which tends to cost me time. What's weird is I'm noticing the same pattern in my work as well, so it's clearly a bit of a mental thing.