RyanGSP's 80G Build

Ryan · #1 03-19-2011, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by bades

Ryan, looking good so far. It's amazing how a little elbow grease and hard work can make a tank look good. Just a quick question for ya,..... when you were scraping off the paint from the back side of the tank, you said about half way through you found a better (and faster) way to remove the old paint. Just curious what you did and secondly, did you spray or roller(paint) the black paint on the back? I want to repaint my back side of tank as well, but not sure whether to spray or paint! Thanks.

Sorry I took so long to reply to this. I totally missed it until I just reread the thread.

What I did was use an arch scrape pattern and only cut enough paint to fill half the razor vs the entire razor. I also made sure I always used a fresh razor blade as they cut much easier.

I picked up a little roller kit from walmart ($4) and used it to roll the paint onto the glass. Because of the overflow I used some masking top to make a nice line and rolled on the paint. This makes it look clean and covers the view of the overflow from that side.

viperfish · #2 03-19-2011, 09:39 PM

Those are some cool lookin' light fixtures you got there buddy!

Ryan · #3 03-19-2011, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by medhatreefguy

Those are some cool lookin' light fixtures you got there buddy!

Thanks Rod.

I am still not too sure about them but they will do. Maybe next year I will order Hamilton Cayman Suns.

viperfish · #4 03-20-2011, 01:32 AM

I wish my fixture had as much light spread as these. My tank is 30" front to back and most combo fixtures just don't cover that area effectively. Are these SE or DE bulbs?

Ryan · #5 03-20-2011, 01:49 AM

They are DE bulbs.

Ryan · #6 03-24-2011, 05:06 AM

The J&L came in today so a little update. After 2 hours of ****ing around we finally got the fixtures and skimmer running. I should be able to move the remaining SPS from the frag tank into the display and shut the frag tank down.

Here is the tank with the Ushio 14K

And now the Phoenix 14K's in the fixtures!

I also got rhe Loc-Line for the returns and put them together. I have one shooting down the back and one shooting down the front.

Now the Vertex IN-180. It will do until I get the Mini S I guess

thegecko · #7 03-24-2011, 05:40 AM

Awesome build Ryan!!!