290G Peninsula Tank

[mseepman]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I just slip fit my 90s in. I applied pvc primer to the short piece of pipe in the 90 and the outlet of my manifold. this created the perfect amount of friction to hold them in tight.

So if I get this right...you just used primer? That made it gummy enough to hold tight...but loose enough that if you needed to break it, you could.

If this works....I will be dancing a jig tonight!!!

[mseepman]

I thought I should do a quick update on the tank thread.

I've been desperately trying to prep my old house as a rental....meaning that the work on the tank has suffered...but some things have gotten done.

Water in the storage tanks, prepping to be transfered over to my sump and up into the display.


The plumbing from my overflow, just dry fitted so far.

[mseepman]

Tonight I worked on putting the dry-rock that I had into the Display. Never a task I look forward to as I just always feel that it could be better. Sorry about the crappy phone pictures.

Anyways, the thing to remember when you look at the pics is that I have about 75 more lbs of "live" rock still in a tank at my old house waiting to move over and fill out the "look". Although the minimalist look has become more popular lately, I feel that this needs to go higher and so hopefully the other rock will eventually accomplish this.

The "live rock" has been in a tank about a year with a couple Chromis so although it has very little Coraline algae, it should be alive enough to help me jump start this tank. I will also be using a 30 pack of Prodibio Startup to get things rolling.

Here's the pics.

[kien]

I personally like it as is :-)

[mseepman]

Thanks! That's cool because I love the look in your tank!

[kien]

Both piles at either end of my tank actually had rocks higher up when I first scaped but I quicky realized that viewing corals so high wasn't as interesting to me so I lowered both ends and am much happier with it. There is more opportunity to look down at corals and fish have more room to cruise the reef top I find.

[gregzz4]

I am also a fan of an open looking reef
With my 75g I am limited, so I had to make some taller 'berbs', but I am liking your open look

Can't wait to see what it looks like once you add the rest of your LR