My 180 Gal Brackish Tank
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Can I get an amen!!The Amazonian;4877518; said:
I haven't said anything because I didn't want to jinx it, but this tank was just featured in a three page write up in a British aquarium mag called Tropical Fish. The title of the article by Neale Monks is "Born in the USA". I'm pretty psyched. My wife is going to have it framed nicely to go over the aquarium!
I practiced drilling with a rotozip tile bit on some glass today. I had bought both the chuck and multimandrel pack for my dremel, but still could not accomodate the larger diameter of the bit. So I chucked it into my drill instead and tried it on a vertical pane of glass. I used a ziplock full of water with a length of IV tubing and a valve to slowly stream water over it, and it cut slowly, but easy. Can't wait to get after the rear wall of my tank.
Some more pics
More pics of the new sump:
My gutter guard fish guard (shown upside down) for the overflow from the refugium
From the "it aint pretty but it'll do" dept . . .
water flows from the refugium on the other side.
More pics of the new sump:
My gutter guard fish guard (shown upside down) for the overflow from the refugium
From the "it aint pretty but it'll do" dept . . .
water flows from the refugium on the other side.
I'm in the middle of the upgrade, ups and downs.
Here is my drip setup for drilling the back wall, tank empty, using an IV tube c valve, stuck into a ziplock and duct taped.
I used a rotozip tile bit in an old drill. I found the cutting smooter with a 10# weight hanging from it.
the water ran into a dry cleaning back nested into a second one, into a bucket.
I made one new hole and enlarged the other
New hole:
enlarging existing hole:
The new box on
New sump
More to come
Here is my drip setup for drilling the back wall, tank empty, using an IV tube c valve, stuck into a ziplock and duct taped.
I used a rotozip tile bit in an old drill. I found the cutting smooter with a 10# weight hanging from it.
the water ran into a dry cleaning back nested into a second one, into a bucket.
I made one new hole and enlarged the other
New hole:
enlarging existing hole:
The new box on
New sump
More to come
