I guess I can give a little more info on the build, but pics will have to wait until tomorrow evening. The tank had been set up long before I took over the fish room, and was a real mess. No protein skimmer, no powerheads, minimal lighting from regular fluorescent bulbs 5 feet off the top of the tank, trying to shine through a thick piece of plastic...yuck city.
Well, the flood has had one positive effect in that it's allowed me to redo the tank the way it should be done. Dimensions are 102"Lx37"Dx21"H (It's a DAS tank; they have weird dimensions), total gallonage of 350~ gallons without the sump. The stand...get this...was made out of plywood and nothing else. No 2x4s, no bracing, no supports, JUST PLYWOOD. How it's managed to stay up this long is beyond me. Anyway, we built a new, over-engineered stand for it that raises the tank up another 6" or so; it'll make it so that you look into the tank, and not down at the top.
The plan is to stock it with an emphasis on LPS and softies, with fish thrown in for movement. Maybe a nice big school of chromis or something like that. I'll be getting a nice big shipment of rock and sand from Florida Live Rock, and the shape of the tank will let me do some really neat things with aquascaping.
Pics to come soon!
