Speaking of lighting, the MH bulbs/ballasts, spider reflectors, timers, VHO bulbs/ballasts arrived today from
www.hellolights.com
Very good prices, excellent company to deal with, and super fast shipping.
Tonight I spent the evening cleaning out the old 90 gallon which will become the sump.. what a mess. it's been sitting in the garage for 5 yrs.. filled with crud, fish waste and completely coralline encrusted sides :mad2:
I would have put money on it that it still held water, but being approximately 15 yrs old, and sitting empty for over 5 through multiple MI winters, I decided to re-silicone the seams.
My hats off to anyone who does this for a living, it is such a pain getting all the old silicone
completely off.. went through about 2 and a half hours,10 razor blades and a bottle of rubbing alcohol, scraping, washing, scraping, washing..
I know how important it is to get it all off, because new silicone does not stick to old, in the end, it came out really well IMO. will have to pick up some tubes of silicone next time I'm at the LFS.
I also drilled the end of it for the return pump bulkhead tonight, while I still had all the tools out.
That's all that was accomplished tonight.. Probably won't get much else done until Monday, going to be in FL this weekend.
