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09-17-2011, 03:46 AM
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Acrilic would be nice however the dollar figure on that stuff is pretty steep. I made my mind up about having something between the glass bottom and rock though a couple weeks ago when the bottom of the 29 gal tank blew out. I was also thinking of just trimming back the egg crate to the base of the rock so open areas, where sand might have a tendancy to get swept away, would be free from egg crate so it might not show up. Not too worried about having the rock fall on the glass, since the base rock is stable and any spindly stuff will eventually be epoxied in place, more just a percausion and to distribute the weight a little bit.
Ok and an update on the pump, so reflo is going to swap out the impeller for the Dart so my final flow numbers will be approximately 5600 gal/hr for 46 turn overs/hr. woo hoo. Any SPS will be happy there. Last edited by 1eyedjyde; 09-17-2011 at 03:50 AM. 
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09-19-2011, 05:16 AM
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Here is a photo update of the scape.
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09-19-2011, 12:56 PM
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If you need some more sand for that tank contact Cyberdude47 (Lonnie). He has a whole garbage can full of it left over from his 500gal teardown.
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09-20-2011, 04:50 AM
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Yeah i will probably do that. I will take stock of what i have but I will get ahold of him if I could use some more. I have to start rinsing out the old sand since its been in wet storage, I think if I stir it up now it will have the strong smell of death.
Also I'm now in day 3 and the NTS is in full effect, diatoms have now covered large areas of the live rock not previously covered with other stuff. My lonely snail and hermit crab have a pretty daunting task ahead of them so where in town can you get snails i think i'd rather have more snails then hermits, since if you get both, the snails just end up food for the hermits and hermits are food for bigger hermits.
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09-20-2011, 05:43 AM
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Allan can probably order some in for you but he's in Vegas for a few days. Total Pet ususally sells crabs but I have'nt really seen them bring in many snails. Other than that your best bet is ordering from J&L.
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09-24-2011, 04:10 AM
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Today I found that my skimmer realy isn't set up quite right. It seems to be skimming a little dry cause when I got home today the skimmate bubbles had filled the collection cup and had lifted the lid off the skimmer and started collecting on the inside of the stand. I will have to adjust to get a slightly wetter skimmate.
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