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Old 10-17-2008, 08:26 PM
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Looks Awesome!! Gheez, everyone else is doing such amazing things with their tanks and then there's mine, just plain, no extras done, lol. Oh well, it's for fun.
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Old 10-17-2008, 09:24 PM
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That is exactly it.....this is fun....I am having fun so far. And it's cheap and I get to keep it (my way of getting another tank in the house)
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Old 10-19-2008, 04:18 AM
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Water is IN!! Live sand in, put WAY too much so have to scoop out the sump a bit....but it's there. The live rock is in but NOT scaped yet....had it done, loved it..then it got bumped so obviously too shaky....project for tomorrow.

Water from our 150g, rock from our sumps, and live sand...torn on whether or not to do a cycle with prawn or not...or just let it go...it should be a pretty soft cycle if much at all.........we'll see. The overflow is very quiet and the sump is perfect! So far so good. The "return pump" is a Maxijet 1200....

COSTING TO DATE;
FREEBIES per the rules;
Tank; free
Stand; free (but did cost $41.33 for wood just as an FYI)
Mag Float; free
Live sand; free (but did cost me $40.00 as I couldn't steal any from my other tanks....)
Rock; free

ITEMS FOR THE BUDGET
Light; $59.95 from Dragon's Lair Pet Store in town...can produce receipt
Maxijet 1200; $26.95 x .75= $20.21 (I already had it...and that's the J&L price at 75%)
Sump; custom built by Jim (whiteice669) $20.00 as it's all used glass

To date; $100.16

I will keep a running tally on the first post too...so you don't have to look over the threads to find what I have spent



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Old 10-19-2008, 06:17 AM
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looks awesome Sara
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Old 10-19-2008, 08:14 AM
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Great start. looks good. ive done the same thing and just dropped rock in but not really scaped yet.
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Old 10-29-2008, 12:27 AM
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So...I've decided with everyone doing "themes" I will do a tank with a Primary Color theme....everything other than rock of course will be blue, yellow or red......hopefully I can do this!
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Old 10-29-2008, 01:22 AM
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What a great idea. Could make for a wonderful tank.
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