AlanM

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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?

Weird. Is it because I'm running adblock plus in firefox that I don't see any of them or get the timer or anything? I see the banner on the bottom of the video for Tanked, but it's static.

Right. There's a big naso tang that keeps circling too and a foxface, and some kind of black tang, I think. Neat. fun to watch for more fish.

I have the sound off, but haven't seen any ads yet. See lots of cardinals, anemone, clowns, powder blue tang, hippo tang, little orange guys (anthias?). It's neat.

Got it working. Needed to allow more javascript than I had allowed. It's the banggai cardinal/yellow tang cam.

Does this work for others? I can't get it to show the video for me. Sounds pretty cool, though. I really enjoyed that huge tank, and want one in my house right now. http://ow.ly/jIDZ3

Redguard is a good idea. What about this for the walls? http://www.lowes.com/pd_8566-293-FTSTF.1_4294934297__?productId=3162499 The PVC cap is a threaded 1-1/2" cap tapped for a 1/4"NPT x 3/8" murlok. The BeanAnimal overflow has three drains, one of which is an "open channel" which converts to a full siphon when a little vent tube gets blocked by water. This cap goes on top of the "open channel" one like on the far right of the first image here: http://www.beananimal.com/projects/silent-and-fail-safe-aquarium-overflow-system.aspx