290G Peninsula Tank

[gridley]

I've been following your thread for a few months - impressive. Sorry to hear about the stand issue - that hurts!

[mseepman]

Well, time for another quick update on the lights.

Got them all hooked up to my new APEX tonight. Ran through some programs and then put them all on at once. Note that this is a picture through the plastic film protecting the plexi...which I believe is cutting the light by 30-40%. Most of the lights are on at about 75% here.


I have to say, it's pretty cool seeing the APEX put this through it's paces. The fixture is really quiet and you won't hear it inside the canopy at all. The fans are doing okay but right now, I'm a little concerned about heat at the two ends which are farthest from the fans. I will take my heat gun to read the temperatures after I get everything to 100% for an hour and see if it's within the LED specs.

[Skimmerking]

WOW looking good buds

[mseepman]

We're getting closer all the time. We figured out how to get the stand into the house and my contractor has been installing the shell today. Tomorrow we will hopefully see a lot of the exterior to the stand get installed.

Without pics...it don't mean much so here you go:



Here you can see we're starting to put the exterior on:


Here is the skeleton of the canopy:


And from another angle.


Sadly while test programming my LED lights, my APEX unit died and has to be returned to Neptune for replacement. It's only been on for 5 or 6 days so hopefully it's track record gets better.

[mseepman]

Some more pictures from today's progress...this thing is huge.

Here is the view as you come up the stairs into the living area of the house.





The living room side:



The dining room side:



And my plumbing for the external overflow coming through the bottom of the sink area.

[gridley]

This is looking fantastic! It must be exciting to see it coming together.

[mseepman]

Yeah, finally some movement on things. It will start coming fast now.