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11-22-2011, 07:21 PM
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Well, the news about the tank is good!
 I know how you feel...house delays suck. Do you figure you will "setup" the tank and just visit daily to check on how the cycle is going or will you do things off-site and move them into the tank once you move in?
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Mark...  290g Peninsula Display, 425g total volume. Setup Jan 2013. 
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11-22-2011, 07:50 PM
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The tank enclosure should be fully sealed and painted by about Dec. 15, so assuming the tank is ready around that time, I'll have everything installed then plumb it. If the builder has no problems with it, I'll fill it up with salt water and the dry rock around christmas and toss in bag of cocktail shrimp. I probably won't even need to check on it that often (though I do go to the site pretty regularly), and if all goes according to plan it will be ready to receive un-cured live rock by the time I move in
The plan is to order the live rock directly from the source in the Pacific. If I'm lucky, having it skip any intermediate holding tanks should *hopefully* cut down on the chance of aiptasia. I'm also going to be adding it to a pre-cycled dry-rock tank, so there should already be a decent biological machinery in place to process the curing cycle and hopefully reduce further die off.
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11-23-2011, 04:53 PM
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good news! The builder found the leak on the first try and it didn't require pulling up any floor tile. The walls in the room below will still need to be replaced, but thankfully they had only been primed and the carpet hadn't been installed yet.
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12-11-2011, 10:40 PM
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Painters are working on the enclosure and the doors for the cabinet are finished.
Mock up pre-paint. The hardware hasn't been installed yet so I just placed the doors in the frames for the pic. The framing panel that will be screwed in after the tank is in is inside on the left:  Inside the tank space is now fully plasticized. The stuff feels almost like rubber. They coated everything, drywall, studs, anything that could be exposed to moisture or humidity.   Back of the doors. This just happened on friday so the coating is still curing. The door on the top left has louvres cut in to it so when the ceiling fan is running, it will draw air from the furthest/lowest point in the cabinet, hopefully keeping moisture in the sump and tank space to a minimum.  If I'm lucky, the tank will be in before Christmas and we can get everything plumbed. Then to cycle! Finally starting to think about scaping options...
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12-12-2011, 02:01 AM
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I'll find out the name of it from the guys tomorrow. It's a 3 part system, there were two base coats that were like a cross between black primer and paint, it had a really rough texture and just soaked right in to anything that was porous like the back of the drywall. The final coat has gone on like rubbery plastic almost. They said it's commonly used in swimming pools and truck liners.
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