In-Wall 180 Project
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I would still put a stop payment on your card!!! They made you wait 5 days! SO CAN THEY!! 
Fair is Fair
And there are lots of idiots when it comes to HD. Good thing they're an Equal Oppurtunity Employer that way they get all the stupid people
Oh yeah, and if it were me I would definately go sand on the bottom. At least an 1" or 2".
Fair is FairAnd there are lots of idiots when it comes to HD. Good thing they're an Equal Oppurtunity Employer that way they get all the stupid people
Oh yeah, and if it were me I would definately go sand on the bottom. At least an 1" or 2".
Yeah, the worst of the hurdles are over. Nothing really changed since last weekend, other than I'm slowly glueing the baffles back into the sump. Hopefully they'll hold better now. I'm a complete disaster area when it comes to Weld-On. What a mess!!
Gotta hang the lights too, thats another thing I had planned for the weekend (four hours). So,
Build a stand for the skimmer and plumb the return(gotta go up because the return is low) (1 hour)
Buy a smaller trashcan for mixing water
Build a stand over the trashcan to put my topoff bin on
Pickup an Iwaki for the closed loop from Marine Depot(not going to use the Little Giant)
put some leftover clear acrylic from HD on the bottom of the tank to protect against the rocks (about 20 minutes)
Finish wiring into the junction box (about an hour)
Pickup a Kent Float valve for the topoff bin
Pickup a bunch of extension cords so everything can reach the panel
Oh yeah, build a shelf over the topoff bin for the VERY HEAVY ballasts (about another hour)
Pickup some Loc-Line nozzles for the returns and for the closed loop returns
Pickup some 1" hose to feed the skimmer
Pickup a cheap clip on fan (a powerful one, I want serious evap)
Fly to Fiji and steal sand from the reefs
Start filling with RODI
think I can get it done by Sunday? Obviously, there is another hundred or so bucks in there. Picking up two large buckets of IO on Tuesday from Coral Oasis, so hopefully I'll be ready to start mixing the salt by then. Once the salt is mixed, I'll put the base rock in and start aquascaping. Woohoo!!!
Gotta hang the lights too, thats another thing I had planned for the weekend (four hours). So,
Build a stand for the skimmer and plumb the return(gotta go up because the return is low) (1 hour)
Buy a smaller trashcan for mixing water
Build a stand over the trashcan to put my topoff bin on
Pickup an Iwaki for the closed loop from Marine Depot(not going to use the Little Giant)
put some leftover clear acrylic from HD on the bottom of the tank to protect against the rocks (about 20 minutes)
Finish wiring into the junction box (about an hour)
Pickup a Kent Float valve for the topoff bin
Pickup a bunch of extension cords so everything can reach the panel
Oh yeah, build a shelf over the topoff bin for the VERY HEAVY ballasts (about another hour)
Pickup some Loc-Line nozzles for the returns and for the closed loop returns
Pickup some 1" hose to feed the skimmer
Pickup a cheap clip on fan (a powerful one, I want serious evap)
Fly to Fiji and steal sand from the reefs
Start filling with RODI
think I can get it done by Sunday? Obviously, there is another hundred or so bucks in there. Picking up two large buckets of IO on Tuesday from Coral Oasis, so hopefully I'll be ready to start mixing the salt by then. Once the salt is mixed, I'll put the base rock in and start aquascaping. Woohoo!!!
Ehydo,
I'm probably going to go with the same lines as I have in my 40gal. I'm thinking a Bi-Color Angel (because I LOVE the color), a diamond Goby to help keep the sand stirred and clean, one or two blue Tangs, two clowns, a school of Chromis, and maybe another one or two colorful, reef-safe fish.
Have a 10gallon tank in the garage that I use now for a QT, but havent used it for months since I havent bought any new fish in a while. I think I can probably set that up somewhere in the house thats nice and cool and use it with daily 1gal water changes and PVC pipe for hiding. Toss a little POS Rio in there for circulation. Nothing fancy.
I'm probably going to go with the same lines as I have in my 40gal. I'm thinking a Bi-Color Angel (because I LOVE the color), a diamond Goby to help keep the sand stirred and clean, one or two blue Tangs, two clowns, a school of Chromis, and maybe another one or two colorful, reef-safe fish.
Have a 10gallon tank in the garage that I use now for a QT, but havent used it for months since I havent bought any new fish in a while. I think I can probably set that up somewhere in the house thats nice and cool and use it with daily 1gal water changes and PVC pipe for hiding. Toss a little POS Rio in there for circulation. Nothing fancy.
Didnt think I'd give up that easily did ya? 
Ok, been busy as usual. Last weekend was a marathon to finish this nonsense and get water in the tank. Started filling the tank Saturday night and was finished by Monday night, including the sump.
Spread the rock out on the patio and realized that a) I didnt have enough and b) the "Our Best" rock that I got from Ebay was nothing but golfball sized solid garbage that is completely unuseable in the display tank. :mad2: I'll never buy from there again. I paid for medium sized (5"-10") porous rock that was shown in the ad, I got the next lowest sized stuff.
On the other hand, the Reeferrocks.com order is absolutely beautiful stuff!! It looks like he MADE it out of southdown. Just beautiful porous and very light! That is going on top with the rock from my 40-gal.
I'm not buying any live rock because there is enough life in my 40gal to seed this 180 just fine. Hopefully, I'll avoid any significant cycle also.
Anyway, on to the pics:
Here is the room done (yeah, I know it's a mess!!)
The skimmer pump plugged in. It's a Little Giant pressure rated. Works beautifully with my single beckett skimmer, even at 40" tall.
Here is the system running. Only one CL pump will be running at a time. Both on a 6 hour cycle with a 15 minute overlap (stolen directly from the mouth of Weatherson! :lol: )
Sucking out the golfball rock dust that I ended up tossing into the fuge:
The beginning of what I hope will be a fuge filled with a huge variety of life:
Got a few giant rocks in the main tank, not putting in the Reeferrocks until I finish building a decent base to aquascape with. No point in putting the pretty stuff underneath, right?
Still waiting for Southdown sand. Have two bags of sand from a LFS. Got a little deal, so I didnt entirely go against my promise of not paying LFS prices for sand. We have a group buy for Southdown going on here on RC and I have my own little deal going where I'm trying to get my hands on another 15 bags to use for myself and sell (at cost) to other folks who are starved of it here in SoCal).
More later!
Ok, been busy as usual. Last weekend was a marathon to finish this nonsense and get water in the tank. Started filling the tank Saturday night and was finished by Monday night, including the sump.
Spread the rock out on the patio and realized that a) I didnt have enough and b) the "Our Best" rock that I got from Ebay was nothing but golfball sized solid garbage that is completely unuseable in the display tank. :mad2: I'll never buy from there again. I paid for medium sized (5"-10") porous rock that was shown in the ad, I got the next lowest sized stuff.
On the other hand, the Reeferrocks.com order is absolutely beautiful stuff!! It looks like he MADE it out of southdown. Just beautiful porous and very light! That is going on top with the rock from my 40-gal.
I'm not buying any live rock because there is enough life in my 40gal to seed this 180 just fine. Hopefully, I'll avoid any significant cycle also.
Anyway, on to the pics:
Here is the room done (yeah, I know it's a mess!!)
The skimmer pump plugged in. It's a Little Giant pressure rated. Works beautifully with my single beckett skimmer, even at 40" tall.
Here is the system running. Only one CL pump will be running at a time. Both on a 6 hour cycle with a 15 minute overlap (stolen directly from the mouth of Weatherson! :lol: )
Sucking out the golfball rock dust that I ended up tossing into the fuge:
The beginning of what I hope will be a fuge filled with a huge variety of life:
Got a few giant rocks in the main tank, not putting in the Reeferrocks until I finish building a decent base to aquascape with. No point in putting the pretty stuff underneath, right?
Still waiting for Southdown sand. Have two bags of sand from a LFS. Got a little deal, so I didnt entirely go against my promise of not paying LFS prices for sand. We have a group buy for Southdown going on here on RC and I have my own little deal going where I'm trying to get my hands on another 15 bags to use for myself and sell (at cost) to other folks who are starved of it here in SoCal).
More later!
Thanks Bax!
BTW, the little wooden shelf I put over in the right hand corner that is holding the ballasts will actually be holding a topoff/kalk water tank. The one I got from WalMart shattered when I tried to drill it to mount my Kent float valve. :eek1: Just a little hole though.
So, lesson learned. That one is now holding the contents of a cardboard box that was in my closet. The ballasts will need to be mounted higher on the wall on a shelf of some sort. That huge one is HEAVY so I'm open to any and all suggestions on shelf building. The small one appears to be able to be hung vertically with well placed screws.
Since the huge 32gallon trash can is too big for the room, I'll be putting a slimmer 31 gallon rectangular can in there underneath the shelf you see in the corner. That will be my mixing tank..
Not rushing any more though. Gotta rest the credit cards. :eek2:
BTW, the little wooden shelf I put over in the right hand corner that is holding the ballasts will actually be holding a topoff/kalk water tank. The one I got from WalMart shattered when I tried to drill it to mount my Kent float valve. :eek1: Just a little hole though.
So, lesson learned. That one is now holding the contents of a cardboard box that was in my closet.
The ballasts will need to be mounted higher on the wall on a shelf of some sort. That huge one is HEAVY so I'm open to any and all suggestions on shelf building. The small one appears to be able to be hung vertically with well placed screws. Since the huge 32gallon trash can is too big for the room, I'll be putting a slimmer 31 gallon rectangular can in there underneath the shelf you see in the corner. That will be my mixing tank..
Not rushing any more though. Gotta rest the credit cards. :eek2:
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