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Snappy · #1 11-01-2009, 02:01 PM

Nice job.

JDigital · #2 11-01-2009, 02:12 PM

Wow.. that rockwork looks awesome!!!

Nice job!

Lance · #3 11-01-2009, 02:25 PM

Ooooooooh! That looks great! Good job. Those big, heavy pieces aren't easy to work with are they?

fishytime · #4 11-01-2009, 02:51 PM

Looking good there Brett.....are you still gonna pick up a few pieces of LR to seed the tank?

Tony better be ready to receive the full brunt of our harassment when you finally fill this sexy thing up.

Delphinus · #5 11-01-2009, 03:58 PM

When *I* fill Brett's tank? That makes no sense at all Doug, your keyboard is really in need of replacement. Now it's shifting objective focus mid-sentence and not just randomly dropping characters!

fishytime · #6 11-01-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

When *I* fill Brett's tank? That makes no sense at all Doug, your keyboard is really in need of replacement. Now it's shifting objective focus mid-sentence and not just randomly dropping characters!

Makes sense in my mind when I read it

kien · #7 11-01-2009, 06:34 PM

Very nice! This reveal was definitely not disappointing. Although, this is just the beginning. You still have that empty canvas to paint :-D

lastlight · #8 11-02-2009, 07:32 AM

Thanks guys.

Bit of a setback tonight but not too bad. I got Greg's old ro/di unit up and running but realized the di gasket was cracked and no good and the di cartridge that he also gave me was not re-fillable. I'd hav ordered one if i'd known.

My tds meter says the ro membrane is putting out 0-1 tds so i am going ahead and filling the tank without the di working for now. I quickly tested the incoming calgary water with the same inline probe and it was 280 so I think it's working...

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Originally Posted by Dez

I can't remember, are you going mixed reef? Or Sps?

Yes I plan to have all the less light hungry stuff under the shelves.

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Originally Posted by Lance

Ooooooooh! That looks great! Good job. Those big, heavy pieces aren't easy to work with are they?

As I was leaning over into the tank and lowering some of these I had flashbacks to when I dropped a rock in my much smaller cichlid tank back in the day and blew the bottom out on it. 3rd floor of an appt too!

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Originally Posted by fishytime

are you still gonna pick up a few pieces of LR to seed the tank?

Definitely will be needing a few seed pieces. I'll see you soon! Should I let the tank run with saltwater for a while before tossing the seed rock in or can I do that asap? After my tank is nice and pod-infested etc I will sell the rock since I have no plans to add to my current layout.

lastlight · #9 11-15-2009, 07:37 AM

So already I can't keep my hands out of the tank. I'm cursed like everyone else of course. The longer I look at my aquascape the more concerned I was.

1. not enough interesting places for small fish to swim or hide. Not enough rock on display.
2. Lots of nice shelves to place corals on but not enough smaller piles for coral, not enough caves and not enough cracks to swim through.
3. No depth as both towers viewed from the side basically lined up.
4. Kien's underwater video raised the aquascape bar way too high for comfort.

Here is the old FTS:

Two slightly different angles of the new FTS. Notice I rotated the entire middle tower so that from the front you see just how interesting it is. Originally I had the neat profile facing the end of the tank.

Old FTS viewed more from above:

This shows perfectly why I am happy I made the change. It's more dynamic, interesting and the swim-through cave on the right end is pretty cool.

Few more random looks: