A Reefer's Journey

[kien]

Looks sweet man! You still gotz the touch :-D

[christyf5]

Looks terrific! Love the rockwork, I wish I had had the patience to do that

[fooser]

Originally Posted by Dez

Anthony! Wicked set up man. All you need is a foosball table beside it and I'll be in Calgary a lot more

I wish I could have scored some of that crziness you had going there with your limited edition Dez colony releases! You can see how much 1 of those massive bad boys would have done in my open concept tank....as for the foosball table, I think that can be arranged

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Great pic.'s everything looks like it's doing really well now

Thank you! Not at the point where I am satisfied yet, but then again, I think most of us never are

Originally Posted by kien

Looks sweet man! You still gotz the touch :-D

No way Kien. I think I need to come take some lessons from you! Can't wait til end of summer! We can uh.. meet again....somehow that just does not sound right.

Originally Posted by christyf5

Looks terrific! Love the rockwork, I wish I had had the patience to do that

Actually, I think my rockwork is pretty embarrassing, if you look closely, you can see some of the zipties that I haven't covered up yet until I know I like it that way for sure. And the back of the rockwork is not done yet either But I will still take the complement to motivate me!!! Thanks!

[abcha0s]

Awesome. That's all I can really say.

[fooser]

Ok, I don't know about other people, but I think marriage is the best thing that can happen to a reefer. Before I was married, my girl got me a Vertex skimmer for a gift. Now that we are married, she got me another Vertex... a Vertex I**u***a...
OK, pics say it better


Oh and also a special thanks to a friend who helped make it happen. Thanks buddy. Also Thanks to Dave at Concept for his kindness in shipping it over as well.


This thing is Long! Yes, that empty tank in the back there is a 20 gallon, just for size reference.



Finally, a step away from ghetto. Good bye frankenhalides!


The Illumina is so slick, it is like you can't even see that thing in there! Where is it?????


Oh, there is it! Ok, So you can see it...




Before

After (with whites only at 20% to avoid bleaching my corals)

[albert_dao]

So, ummm, bad news man.

I have like a million pictures of your wedding and and all those shenanigans... and none of the installation.

I blame Apple (-_-);;

Nice light, BTW

[lastlight]

1) We lost another halider to the led-side. Nooooo!

2) What are those raised panels on the stand made of? Can you tell more about how you did all that it looks really cool.

3) drawer slides for the win haha! I recently redid my canopy and I mounted drawer slides to each other in opposing directions. This allows me to slide the canopy BOTH ways.

[lorenz0]

now thats an awesome wife!

[fooser]

Originally Posted by lastlight

1) We lost another halider to the led-side. Nooooo!

2) What are those raised panels on the stand made of? Can you tell more about how you did all that it looks really cool.

3) drawer slides for the win haha! I recently redid my canopy and I mounted drawer slides to each other in opposing directions. This allows me to slide the canopy BOTH ways.

1) Im sorry, it was just so tempting, I just walked towards the light... literally haha. It was so sleek and sexy looking. and the halides even in my basement, made my house feel like a rainforest!! I even have a fan pulling air out enclosed in my canopy and pushing it outside the house.

2) They are actually just drawer fronts. I think they are ridiculously overpriced, but they are still cool. In the picture they appear blue, but that is because I have not taken the protective film off them (this was a trial, the real thing will require my entire canopy to be re-done, which is the plan). The panels are actually high gloss white, not as reflective as the black one (you can see yourself like a mirror) but I like white and so did the wife. Red was just too extreme and took attention from the tank itself. I then just drilled them in to my sliding canopy covers from the back and voila. As you can see in the pictures though, I have yet to finish covering the entire stand and canopy since I always do things half way and leave it. If you want to know more, just drop me a pm.

3) Heck yeah! Sliding rules, but if I could also incorporate my lights being lifted up and down in the canopy that would be even more awesome. You always gotta make it so fancy.. 2WAYS? haha that is cool, maybe i should redo mine... Right now the light rack in the canopy is only designed to slide back and forth, but up and down is cooler.. hmm seems to remind me of a certain tank build from a certain person with a name beginning with B..... wonder who that was....

[fooser]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

So, ummm, bad news man.

I have like a million pictures of your wedding and and all those shenanigans... and none of the installation.

I blame Apple (-_-);;

Nice light, BTW

Noooooooo!!! It was so fresh and clean. Untouched by water! O well. i guess I can always just clean up the sump and salt on the plumbing and take it again :P, just doesnt have the same effect.

Oh, but uh.. shananigans? er, I don't know what you are talking about........

And yes, That IS a SWEEET fixture. I am only using like 30% right now to raise it up slowly by like 5-10 percent per day. Sarah Loves that thing too!
Good thing I have such good friends who can hook me up with the good stuff in life. The quality of this unit makes me really consider getting the Cerebra too and get the most of it.

Now all I need are re-fills of KZ additives since that tank uses them up 4 times faster than my old system.