AlanM

Nice. There you go. Lets do it at the meeting if the club leadership doesn't care.

I'm coming to the meeting on Sunday. I have some polarizing lenses and an iPad that can be kind of used to check if glass is tempered. We could test it out at least. I also have 35mm, 45mm, and 60mm diamond hole saws for drilling holes 3/4", 1", and 1-1/2" ABS bulkheads from BRS respectively. I have a template from glass-holes for drilling a 45mm hole, but not the others. If someone can bring one of those clamp-on templates that they sell at BRS or some other kind of holding device I can bring my battery powered drill and a squirt bottle for dropping water on it and we can do a drill-fest. Don't actually need a template if you just start grinding sideways to get a groove and then rotate it upright. I have plumbers putty too to make a dam to hold water. I don't warranty the results, but the sale is still going on if your $40 or $55 aquarium cracks. It sounds like the meeting has kind of a full agenda with two speakers, but I'm fine with bringing the stuff if the club leadership is fine with a spot for hole drilling. There will be lots of people there who have done it before to help drive the drill.

Actually, according to the latest spec sheet linked on the Aqueon website, the 40B bottom isn't tempered, but the 55G bottom is. The specsheet doesn't mention anything about the sides or back, but conventional wisdom is that 55G tanks tend to be tempered all around. sheet here: http://www.aqueonpro...s/011/19107.pdf A diamond hole saw is a circular shaped saw that fits in a drill. It's basically cup shaped with no centering drill that would be on a wood version. For little holes you can use those spade-shaped ones from Lowes.

ohaverd, I'm not understanding how you ended up doing what Richard said above if you didn't use the 1" female thread that came with the pump. You mean that the black union type fitting with the 1" NPT female thread that came with the Blowhole snapped? I emailed them to ask if I could just thread a 1-1/2" NPT onto the thread on the pump body and get rid of the 1" female NPT part since the thread is very close to 1-1/2" NPT. They said "please don't" because the seal is intended to be made using a gasket with that union fitting and the thread is a parallel one, not NPT, so I'd just wreck the pump body if I did that. Is that what you did?

His Tesla comic is genius too.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now you're dinner. This picture is my favorite. New prototype body armor for the combat modeled on the Mantis:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp

Awesome. Will send you a list tomorrow.

Will do. Thanks a lot. Will take me a while to get my act together because if I'm going to put you through the trouble I'll want to do a bit of planning.

Well, Harrington Industrial Plastics has everything I'd need for sure. If you're willing to do it and Ferguson's doesn't have it, I'll put a part list together for you and would gladly pick it up at your office.

Yeah, just hoped someone would have a magical local source that I didnt know about. I need a buncha fittings, so maybe I will just get them all

I didnt want to bug Justin with something like this. Fergusons is close, so I can check with them. I called contemporary watercrafters who said "we have those, Ill set two out for you" so I schlepped over there and they were 1-1/2" thread adapters, not 1 x 1-1/2. Annoying wild goose chase. I heard there was a good pool supply off 355 north of clarksburg and south of ijamsville. You know what that one would be, Richard?

Yeah, i was trying to avoid a fitting zoo.

The Reeflo Blowhole comes with half of a threaded 1" union fitting already installed on the input and output of the pump body. To reduce input suction and output pressure I'd like to plumb it with 1-1/2" PVC, so I'd like to find a 1" male thread x 1-1/2" socket fitting. It exists, as a 436-133 from Spears, but it's an uncommonly used one, so Lowes/HD don't carry it. Online places I've found like pexsupply.com and flexpvc.com carry it, but it's about $10 shipping. Are there any good local fitting stores? I am going to call the Gaithersburg pool supply place that I got my Flex PVC from on the off chance that they'd have it because I know some pool supply places carry stuff that isn't commonly used for plumbing. Thanks.

But now you need a new powerhead cover. Maybe this will satisfy it for a while and it will leave the real one alone.

It's nice to hear this about them. I tried going there about 6 months ago and just couldn't get anyone's attention in the little store even though I was there for like 30 minutes. I'll give them another try.

I use them all the time for photobucket images.

Mby start with what you have now and add MP60s in the future if you really need them. You're not going to immediately drop expensive SPS in there anyway. By faux bare bottom do you mean the white cutting board stuff with sand glued to it like was mentioned recently? If you're not getting fish or inverts that like to live in sand, it seems like the way to go in my opinion. You'd get the look without the headache.

Interesting that Petco would put it there, but not on their website or their email blasts.

I picked up one at the Germantown Petco to use as a sump. They only had the one, but are getting more. Had to sign up for a perks card, but for a $74 discount it's worth it.

Get an acrylic builder to make you a frame out of clear acrylic and put clear mesh in it, then hang it inset into the rim with little metal clips. Maybe the marineland ones for their cubes would even work.

Haha, oh man. Glad you caught him in time. Neptune should release a jumper detection mat for their Apex.

Thanks.

Dunno, but it has really nice markings. What kind is that?

Well, I guess I'd recommend NoScript and AdBlock Plus plugins for firefox because I have both and am seeing no ads and no timers. Could it be because I'm on a .gov domain using taxpayer bandwidth to watch the fishies?