SmallFry's 75 Gallon (Reef Eventually) Build

[SmallFry]

Its taken a while but I now have all the livestock I want in the tank - well nowhere close to all I want, but all I think I'm going to have. I may add some more snails etc to clean up the sand, but that's it..

So far the list is

Royal Gramma

Carpenters? Flasher wrasse
Ruby headed fairy wrasse
(yep, the Skimmer King got me hooked on wrasses)
Both are in hiding right now - I'm hoping that it's just because they're annoyed about having to share the tank with the new arrivals who zip around the tank quite a bit..

Coral Beauty
Kole Tang

Two Cleaner Shrimp
Rock Boring Urchin

Three Nassarius
Four Turbo Snails
One big spiky snail that I have yet to identify
Small but getting larger frag of Green Star Polyps

I'll try to get some decent photos up but I'm having difficulties getting things to focus properly with my camera. It's almost like the auto focus is off, but it's about ten years old so I guess I can't complain too much..

[subman]

Tank looks great...but that canoe is AMAZING!!!!

you obviously have some mad carpentry skills.

[Coralgurl]

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Busy guy! tank looks great!

Would love to see what you do with your trailer. We had a '57 converted bus we wanted to redo...no place to do the work....

[SmallFry]

Originally Posted by subman

Tank looks great...but that canoe is AMAZING!!!!

you obviously have some mad carpentry skills.

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

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Busy guy! tank looks great!

Would love to see what you do with your trailer. We had a '57 converted bus we wanted to redo...no place to do the work....

Thanks! The canoe actually isn't as hard as it looks, most of it is just being obsessive about getting things straight and set up right to begin with. A lot of the time is in building and setting up the mould. More time was spent thinking about how to do stuff than actually doing it. I'd have helped myself if I'd bought the cedar strips instead of making them from home depots red cedar deck boards.. Or if I hadn't decided to weave my own cane seats...

The trailer has changed a bit since that photo, new floor and all the inner skins have been taken off and reinsulated. It will be going back to its original layout except for a tweak or two at the front. I'm going to strip and rebuild or repair the original furniture where I can and invent the rest..

I'm really lucky that the in-laws have a farm where I'm able to keep it while I work on it. That size of project would have been impossible otherwise..

Once I'm done with that I get to finish the basement and replace the kitchen...

[bignose]

That canoe is a work of art! Great craftsmanship SmallFry.