700 gallon tank, or how i spent my daughters inheritance

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Wow thanks for sharing all the photos. Congrats on the power connections - I know with solar it can take some time but most CA utilites are getting up to speed. Very nice house. Keep the pics coming!!! :D
 
Man that is a beautiful house!! Very cool design and decorating.

Love your dog too. APBT right? My little Eve would be a great playmate for Bryson

Lunchbucket
 
naughty naughty LB! :lol:

That place is classic New Venice. :D It's amazing how VB has changed over the years. We have a close friend with a place on a canal, and it's a monster 3+ stories, but there are still some of the original craftsman bunaglos still there.

I looked into direct buy but found a LOT of negative stuff about them online. It's good to see you are having a decent experience with them.
 
we got the dog at the pound and he was two they said. castrated before we could have him. great dog but not sure the breed although we think pure pit as we saw one once that was his clone and had a $1,200 pedigree.

he does know how to be submissive when he has a friend over.
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and chill after his daily hour walk. (very important)
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Just read all 9 pages.Absolutely fabulous tank/house/dog.I'm feeling very inferior with my 12 gal Nanocube and 55 gallon.But I have 3 dogs..2 boxers &1 chocolate lab/boxer mix.Keep the thread going,I like to live vicariously through others!!!!!
 
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naughty naughty LB! :lol:

That place is classic New Venice. :D It's amazing how VB has changed over the years. We have a close friend with a place on a canal, and it's a monster 3+ stories, but there are still some of the original craftsman bunaglos still there.

I looked into direct buy but found a LOT of negative stuff about them online. It's good to see you are having a decent experience with them.
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Not sure what you were thinking as mine and his are fixed and I'm against breeding...if that is what you are thinking. Merely thought they might have blast running around the yard together.

Reefski's - I'm very glad you saved an animal that was surely doomed form the pound! Oh they have fun when they get together and wrestle around and make goofs of themselves. You got that right that a LOT of exercises is needed. Great for us to stay in shape and them too. Nice job on the tank and the doggy :D

Lunchbucket
 
Ah, Teak! Very nice. Yes it is stronger for wear over the oak. It is not harder but more dense. The cell structure differs from oak which has large pores. You will find very little movement in the teak verses oak. It didn't look like Cumaro (Brazilian teak) but darker. It is from Indonesia then? I deal a a lot in Brazilian cherry these days. And i just got my hands on some sweet 5" rustic American cherry! I love it.
 
isn't more dense the same as harder? i thought they said it was from Brazil but i could be confusing it with where one of the tiles is from.

Carl
 
Not really. Oak is harder. Teak is like maple. The cell structure is tight but the wood is softer then oak. The real reason your floor seems stronger is the finish. Aluminum oxide finish is water based but kiln dried with 7 layers of finish. Unlike polyurethane that is more of a plastic and never truly gets hard. The good news about your finish is, when you scratch it all you need to do is mask off the individual boards and coat it with water based finish. Dries in less then an hour. :D
 
that is great to know. what product do you recommend to fix the scratches that are inevitable?

you are right about the aluminum oxide finish. i thought it was teak that was harder, so it is just the finish? why don't people finish oak with aluminum oxide?

Carl
 
Just a jab LB...I know you wouldn't go for that. :)

Good info. about flooring. I always thought teak was harder as well. Dogs can really do a number on wood floors and I know my parents have theirs re-done nearly every year. I have stayed away from it for just that reason.
 
update:

good news and bad news

i learned that a 2" screen on a 5,000+gph closed loop pump will suck in a sea hare and peanut worm, partly through the screen and kill them.

i have ordered a 4" screen in hopes that it will have much less "pull" due to a larger surface area.

i also woke up in the night thinking if i tried to pull the screen off the pvc and pulled up the pvc also that i would have a big problem with the closed loops and sand. so i put a kind of anchor through the bottom of the pvc and put rocks on it in the tank. that should hold it down once covered with sand.
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so the good news about that is i discovered it now before the sand went into the tank.

has anyone else had problems with their closed loop intakes?

the other bad news today is that i found out i am an idiot.

i had all the base rock in the tank pretty much where i wanted it. i made a funnel to put the sand into the bottom of the tank.
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i covered the closed loop pump intakes with a baggie and rubber band. we decided to take lunch before getting started so i turned back on the CL pumps. OOPS! those baggies were instantly sucked into the pipe and no water came out of the closed loops. i turned the pumps off within a couple seconds and started taking apart the pumps and fishing out the baggies.

fortunately they came out without any harm to the pump.

ran out of time to put the sand in. monday i hope.
 
tank from both sides.
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the temp sum in the closet.
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the rock that i had in one of the holding tanks was very cool. never above 65-70 for months. when i put it into the new tank i got a mass spawning of Spirorbidae worms. there are 100's if not 1,000s of them.
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i really want to put these two in the tank where i can appreciate them.
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seeing all that light shinning off of those boxes really shows how much light is coming down that shaft. I see what you mean when you say a lot of it is lost because of the sides not being in place yet.



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I am really interested in seeing how you're going to put actinics in.

Sorry to hear about the peanut worm .
 
the fish are about 7". they are outside in the aptasia farm tank.

i forgot to say there are at least 7-8 more peanut worms in the rock. i can see the "tails"? sticking out of the rocks at night. there is a poor picture of this in the first post about the worm.

i don't plan on using any actinics. i don't believe they are needed. i don't use them on any of my other tanks. see link to article above about coral coloration.
 
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