Hello everyone. My family and I have just recently moved to Colorado Springs at the first of December. I have been stationed in Fort Benning, GA for the last two years and the Army decided that I should move half way across the country to start working on helicopters again. Now for the hobby....In Ga, I had a 75 gallon saltwater tank setup with Live Rock and some fish, nothing fancy but I did have a small colony of yellow polyps that did wonderful. During the last couple of months there, since I knew I was gonna have to break my tank down, I decided to build my own stand and canopy. I will have to say, I have been proud of my work so far. My only problem so far is that I built them in the humidity and warm weather of Georgia and now, being stored in the sub freezing, dry temperatures of a Colorado winter, one of my stand doors has a small crack in it, and the canopy lid has bowed a little. To me, the faults are horrible, but to my wife its an amazing work of art. So my equipment....Lighting: Coralife 496 watt MH/PC/LED combo. Wavemaking: two Maxi-Jet 1200's, one Korelia pump and a wavemaking power strip. Filtration: I have a Magnum 350 Pro with the dual bio wheels, and actually an acrylic sump that I sorta designed, but did build myself. I looked at a bunch of pictures and started cutting. Its great. The center of it functions as my refugium where I had some macro-algae growing. So Im sorry about the HUGE intro, but thats me and my hobby. The only problem now is I have a beautiful tank, stand and canopy, crystal clear water.....and thats it. So now the building of the inside. I should be adding my live rock in the next few days, and then comes the fun part. Anybody got any frags they can part with?
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Sisterlimonpot
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[welcome] weather is way different in these here parts, what base are you at there in the springs?
I'm up at F.E. Warren AFB.
Jimmy
I'm up at F.E. Warren AFB.
Jimmy
So I have finally got my sump/refugium up and running. I had a small disaster yesterday evening. I broke down and bought all new tubing and nozzles for everything when I move (mainly I didn't want to clean any of them) Well I forgot to fix up an anti-siphon hole in my return hose for my sump. I plugged in on accident thinking it was my protein skimmer pump...oops I say to myself and simply unplug it, and went on about my business...until about 30 seconds later when I here the water splashing onto the bottom of my stand....GGGRRRRR.
The Haj
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Rocmtnreef
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TheSCMAS is a great group!
