Conda -
My attitude with jumpers is, if they jump out, their dead meat. My jack russel already ate a few of my fresh water fish that took the plunge. Stupid fish. Nice rock work. Those rocks look great! How wide is your tank? Those rocks look huge.
- HAHA. Yea, but when you drop $60 on a fish, you wanna keep em IN the tank.
- The tank is 24" wide. Its really a nice depth/width and allows me to keep large rocks with plenty of room in front. Yea, I picked up some really big rocks the last two weeks.
Melev -
Bryan, the rolling light rack is great. No regrets at all. It would have been larger had I used different reflectors. The only inaccurate part of those images is that my reflectors are now pointing perpendicular rather than parallel with the rack.
- Thanks. Gotcha.
Lon -
Where is the link for the light rack?
- Lon, you gotta go to Marc's super-thread link, all the way back to the beginning. From there I beleive its around page 10-15 somewhere?
Keith -
You can pick up a pop-rivet gun for about $20 at home depot or really any hardware store.
- Yep, youre right! Just got back from HD. Priced out what it would cost to use the tube aluminum, or even angle aluminum, plus a rivet gun and rivets, plus the usual 20% buffer and it would cost me $75-$100!
Soooooo.....I'm gonna go a different route. Long term, the aluminum rack is definitely the way to go - I'm convinded. But, what I'm gonna do, short term, for budget and design purposes, is I'm gonna build a prototype out of wood (probably 2x3s). Get it all sized out, fitted, and understand the best way to raise/lower or shift the thing. then, when i have time, budget, and the right plan, I'll invest in the whole aluminum rack thing.
Thanks all! I also spent about $40 buying the rest of the trim for around the tank. I think this is going to be REALLY tricky for me to do, but I have the time and the tools so, hopefully, I'll have part of it done tonight and can finish tomorrow night and paint it.
