Murdoch's 160G Tank Build

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by doch

I'm pretty sure that the reason for these fishies all hiding is that I have Satan himself living in my aquarium. He may look like a male Lyretail Anthias, but that's just the form that he's chosen for our world.

.......thats too funny man.....not that you have a nasty fish, but how you worded it.......

stand looks killer man

[reefwars]

stand looks great bud, love the mitred corners looks clean

[doch]

Originally Posted by reefwars

stand looks great bud, love the mitred corners looks clean

Thanks!
They actually didn't turn out as well as I had hoped... But I'm going to take a grinder and even the corners, then fill with a little grout. Should be darn near prefect! Now if only my buddy would get off his lazy butt... The finishing carpentry needs to be done! I've been looking for a deal on a decent table/mitre saw... Might end up doing it myself.

[doch]

So, I come downstairs to find a giant puddle of water all over the floor. Again. Damnit. This is certainly not the first time that this has happened, and likely not the last, but this time, it took me a while to figure out why. WHY!?!?!?!?! As it looks, my 3 month old sump is leaking. ****!!! I've isolated the sump, put strategically placed heaters in the appropriate tanks (frag and display) and have drained the sump down to the levels of the baffles. I assume that when I get home tonight I'll be able to see which section of the sump is leaking, and hopefully be able to reseal that panel of glass. In the mean time, my wife is going down to the LPS (plumbing) to get me a list of fittings. When I get home, I'll be converting 2 rubbermaids into a temporary (or maybe permanent) sump system.

****!!!!

That all said, as I'm noticing this last night, (and taking inventory of what to list for sale today) I see my newly added female mandarin all cuddled up to and in spawn mode with the originally added male!!!! Fine. I'll keep the tank. ****ers. HAHAHA! Super cool to see, it made the whole experience not so bad.

A little side note about the mandarins... the male was always good and healthy looking. When I got the female, she actually looked pretty skinny which scared me a little, but I was told that she's eating frozen, so I risked it. Now, she's fattened up nicely, and the both are very active and fat and happy!! WHOOOHOOOO!!!!! I absolutely love these guys!!!

[doch]

Well, the finishing carpentry is 99% complete. Since I likely have hit a wall with the last 1%, I'll post some pics now. My buddy Ryan helped (read: did almost all of this... except the tile and the trim on the bottom). I can't thank him enough! All that is left now is to mount a little bit of hardware (catches for the panels closest to the walls), and to paint the bottom trim white, stain all of the fir, and paint the pipe valences to match the walls (which will likely change colour too).

Enough talking... here's the goods!

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Please try not to pay too much attention to the crappy aquarium attached to the stand and canopy... I've been having nothing but troubles with it lately.

[doch]

I'll try this again:





Not sure why they wouldn't work in the other post, but here they are.

[doch]

Is it still possible to adjust the title of a thread? I used to be able to, but can't now.

[Skimmerking]

no we are not allow to edit anymore. just pm the mod and they can do it