pimp2daizzo said:
Are yout taking out the sand????
That would be much better whit sps...you will be able to keep the tank nicer
Well, the sand is still there, it's just down in the fuge now. The sand is much deeper in there as well since it's only a 10g tank, so it will aid in denitrifying my water better. I am going to try to find some cutting board for the bottom of the tank from the kitchen section of my local Marshall's or Ross store. You can finds all sorts of stuff dirt-cheap at those stores.
WarEagleNR88 said:
You should paint or stain the stand while you've got stuff disassembled. Just my thoughts if you were going to do it eventually. It gets a lot harder to do once you've got PVC plumbed up and everything in place.
I still have to finish the corner molding on the stand before I can think about sanding and painting it. It was just too much for me to cram into this weekend. It will eventually get done.
WarEagleNR88 said:
It was really that easy to cut holes in the glass? Wow, I think I may need to stop by Sears sometime and pick up that little $6 jewel for cutting my tanks. I've got a really good Craftsman cordless drill that shifts into three different speeds as you squeeze the trigger, maybe that would be ok? What are the RPMs of your rotary tool you purchased?
It took me about 30 minutes to cut each hole. Unfortunately, you can't use a regular cordless drill since they don't spin fast enough. You'd be there for hours just trying to cut one hole, and your battery would run out long before you could finish the job. My Black & Decker rotary tool has three speeds. Low is 12,000rpm, medium is 24,000rpm, and high is a blistering 30,000rpm. By comparison, my B&D 12v cordless drill only spins at a maximum 700rpm. The rotary tool was a necessity to get the job done. Now, if you had a diamond hole saw, you can use a regular cordless drill to cut the glass, but for a hole saw in the diameter I needed, it was about $40 online. Plus, after I used it for my tank, it would sit and gather dust. The rotary tool I can use for other things like cutting through SPS corals to frag them in addition to other uses around the house. The rotary tool was $35 at Home Depot and as I mentioned, the bits were just $6 at Sears, so it was a much better way to spend $40 than just to buy the diamond hole saw itself.
WarEagleNR88 said:
Another thing I thought of is a closed loop. You might want to go and drill it's holes now while you've got the tank like this. That is if you were planning to do one.
I have no immediate thoughts on making a closed-loop. Right now I'm happy with my dual drains and single vinyl tubing return from the fuge. I don't think I'll take this tank so far as to need a closed loop. Maybe someday when my Maxi-Jets die, I'll do it, but they're only a couple months old, so they have plenty of life left in them.
Thanks as always for the kind compliments. :thumbsup: