My 280g Custom upgrade.....
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david00061
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Cool another cool build to follow
SPotter
Active member
1st round of deliveries arrived today.....
1st round of deliveries arrived today.....
So my order from premium aquatics and my skimmer came today.....I think after this week I will have to give the UPS driver a very nice tip!!!!!
MISC ITEMS
SKIMMER
The wife wanted to know if I am trying to compensate for anything....:spin1:
1st round of deliveries arrived today.....
So my order from premium aquatics and my skimmer came today.....I think after this week I will have to give the UPS driver a very nice tip!!!!!
MISC ITEMS
SKIMMER
The wife wanted to know if I am trying to compensate for anything....:spin1:
Dustin1300
Reefaholic
Great looking Steve! That skimmer is huge
What sand did you get from Tropic Eden? I think I'm picking up CaribSea AragMax Sugar Grain size for DSB in fuges and Tropic Eden Reef Flakes and Mini Flakes for DT later down the road.
What sand did you get from Tropic Eden? I think I'm picking up CaribSea AragMax Sugar Grain size for DSB in fuges and Tropic Eden Reef Flakes and Mini Flakes for DT later down the road.
david00061
New member
wont be long now
budbreak96
New member
Is that a light around the bottom of the skimmer>
SPotter
Active member
The wait is killing me!!!! Tank wont be ready and delivered until the first week of January.
Steve
Dustin1300
Reefaholic
I've heard this sand is amazing an very clean out of the box. I'm thinking I'll need 500 lbs for my DT but luckily I can drive to Premium Aquatics and save on all that freight!
SPotter
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I did 300 lbs total on my tank and I'm sure I wont use it all. PA now includes salt and substrate in free shipping for large orders.
I'm thinking about ordering 3-4 more cases of salt. with the discount and free shipoing its almost $20 a case cheaper than my lfs.
Steve
Richard Reefer
New member
That skimmer is awesome, it's all coming together now...
SPotter
Active member
Thats what I want to hear Henry!!!!! Today is another big shipment day...PUKANI arrives and the apogee par meter. I will send you the rental agreement for your review :beer:
nightOwl
Premium Member
Steve,
Pictures looked great! I will be looking forward to the rental agreement...LOL. I am swapping out bulbs and need to know how much more light the new bulbs will put out.
SPotter
Active member
Thanks Henry. I have to get over to the post office to pick up the par meter and the wand for the sensor will be in tomorrow. I will get it out to you monday or tuesday next week.
SPotter
Active member
The Pukani has arrived.....
The Pukani has arrived.....
I was ready to order another type of dry rock but a good friend suggested I really consider the Pukani rock from BRS. After a few emails with BRS I decided to take my friends advice and ordered 100lbs of Pukani and 30 lbs of the shelf rock they sell. The boxes arrived yesterday and my expectations have been exceeded. I thought for sure there would be a lot of breakage but I had no more than two handfuls and most of the pieces that broke are perfect for frags. The way they packed the rocks was amazing....I now have enough packing peanuts to start my own shipping company :spin3:
For the 100lbs of Pukani I received 20 pieces of rock with about 5 of them being true large show pieces.
There's only a few boxes left to be delivered at this point and they are just small parts and supplies. I still need to order my plumbing fixtures and have been thinking about getting my ball valves from Savko. I have one right now that was given to me and the valve is so easy to open and close...not like the ones I have gotten from HD.
TANK UPDATE....
Glass should be in next week and they will start building the tank. The builder said they will forward progress pictures.
The Pukani has arrived.....
I was ready to order another type of dry rock but a good friend suggested I really consider the Pukani rock from BRS. After a few emails with BRS I decided to take my friends advice and ordered 100lbs of Pukani and 30 lbs of the shelf rock they sell. The boxes arrived yesterday and my expectations have been exceeded. I thought for sure there would be a lot of breakage but I had no more than two handfuls and most of the pieces that broke are perfect for frags. The way they packed the rocks was amazing....I now have enough packing peanuts to start my own shipping company :spin3:
For the 100lbs of Pukani I received 20 pieces of rock with about 5 of them being true large show pieces.
There's only a few boxes left to be delivered at this point and they are just small parts and supplies. I still need to order my plumbing fixtures and have been thinking about getting my ball valves from Savko. I have one right now that was given to me and the valve is so easy to open and close...not like the ones I have gotten from HD.
TANK UPDATE....
Glass should be in next week and they will start building the tank. The builder said they will forward progress pictures.
Dustin1300
Reefaholic
Rock looks great Steve. How you planning to arrange the scaping?
SPotter
Active member
Thanks Dustin. My initial thought is to do 3 separate structures. I figure given the depth of the tank I will have a lot of options but I do want to leave a lot of open "swimming" space.
Dustin1300
Reefaholic
Agreed on the depth. I originally wanted to go with a coast to coast overflow but thinking about overflows on each end....Still not sure.
If I went that route I could add a shadow box and really make tank look like its got some major depth. With the scaping you could have three separate areas and like real reefs...Have the cave like structures and open sand valleys. Having the caves and valleys gives good shadowing too which helps with the perception of depth. My tanks in past have always been 18" so I'm doubling that as you are so I'm going to love it no matter what!
