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Need to get some pieces with height in there! Looking good, Chuck.

Congrats! Life just got a little more expensive!

yup, looking to fill up an 80 gallon I’m building out.

Looks like things are certainly growing!

Are you dosing at all? I bet you that will change things!

Welcome back! Finally outgrowing the nano, so new stuff is getting there. I’ve got frags for you when you’re ready, out in Hyattsville, MD now.

There he is!

Nice, that's always my MO as well, x2 for when one craps out or for maintenance. Price looks right. I appreciate the experience and thoughts! As above, I have the same ideas about it. By the end of this calendar year I think we'll have the basement redone and the upstairs redone as well, I'm lobbying for a dedicated fish room/sump area/water changing station, then I can talk about pumps that can clear 20-30' head space for my basement sump

Soliciting advice on a good return pump for the 80 gallon. The overflow is set for a 1600gph turn over.

You have no idea! Props to @Alex Simpsonfor helping me drill and move the tank around. I dropped off a red oak board with @Ben Athis weekend for the top. For those of you who don't know, Ben builds stands, and the 22 was one of the first. I had an old Aquabox tank that was 6' long, and something like 8" wide and high. It was silly, but part of me wishes I still had it. The board I was using on that tank for the top was from an old head, @Coral Hind. Ben cut it, planked it together (I don't know what the woodworking term is!) and kept a beautiful live edge on the outside. He's going to do the same with the even more exaggerated live edge board for the 80. Once I have that back, and I'll plumb (have everything I need already) and just combine the two tanks. I'm cycling additional rock in a tub downstairs, but I don't think I'll use it, better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it. Props to @Abe for the 48" Aquatic Life, I took the weekend to rig up x2 of the 3 K7 V3 Noopsyche's. I'm going to run into a similar problem that @monkiboyis dealing with, which is managing (cleanly) 5 power cords for lights while hanging from the ceiling. Although, he does have a ton more lights than I do! Yep. I've never really concerned myself with it much, but I want to make sure I'm keeping an adequate comparison when I move everything over. While I haven't made any decisions about the future of the 22, I am trying to keep all the equipment on it, as most of it was built or acquired to sustain a SPS nano reef, otherwise I would just use the same lights. In other news, I've been on the waiting list for a small copperband at a few places, and a few weeks ago, Live Aquaria notified me they were back in stock. I ended up ordering x2, but they still have not shipped. I think covid has led to some serious staff shortages, and I'm becoming increasingly concerned with the quality/health of them when they arrive/if they arrive. Thanks to @kyle&amyfor the QT tank. While it was larger than what I was looking for, it will be the perfect tank to make sure I can get them eating, treated, and established in the new build. I don't intend to keep two, unless I have some odd luck and they pair up, but chances are slim. I'll hopefully get both eating and sell one. That leaves my stock list at: -Mated pair of Platinum Clowns -Watchman Goby -Cardinal Fish (was hoping for a few more from @DaJMasta, next round) -Yellow Tang -Copperband Butterfly I would love to do some anthias or wrasse, but I don't want to put a lid on the tank, and I don't want to have sand, so I think I'm not even going to venture down either road there. If I can find it, I would love to get a juvenile BlueFace, which is my fish 'holy grail,' but don't plan to go out of my way to make it happen.

BTW, what is the pink acro with green tips?

SPS looking stunning!

Wow, looks great. I agree, figure it out when you need it.

Nice old school acros! Good looking stuff!

Well done. re: apex gear, following along, I think I’ll likely buy a pack of everything and sell off what I end up not using.

I do, but I've actually found a 48" Aquatic Life fixture. Can confirm that the Noopsyche lights will fit. I was given two, and ordered another one on my own dime. It's not Radions, but everything combined should light up this tank like a Christmas Tree. I'm starting to get excited about this (not that I wasn't before) but I think it's going to look very clean. I'm also excited about getting more fish and letting these SPS finally have some space. A lot of these acros are growing in clumps because there's not a lot of variance in the flow over 12" L-R and F-B.

I think your sump is bigger than my new display. Excellent.

bosses always veto this idea. Wish I knew why. Must hate good looking things!

Welcome!

What kind of lights are you going with. I’m mounting mine from the ceiling, always the cleanest look Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, the instructions are almost non existent, but once you you tube and reach around the internet a little bit, you can figure out how to set them up. Glad to hear your experience was/is good, honestly, 2 look like they will get the job done, but my tank currently has a LOT of light, I want to continue that. Just talking it out right now, I think a way to continue that would be to go with the 48" aquatic life hybrid to continue on with my T5's as well.

No apologies needed, I'm not entirely sure what Ozone is for/used. I'm still back here in the stone age, yanking plugs out of sockets when I need to feed the tank.

I'm confused, the Nyos skimmer handling a low amount, you mean load? Are you saying the skimmer wasn't doing a good enough job, hence the addition of the ozone reactor?

Thanks! It's been quite a lot of work, but it's slowly coming together. Honestly, the RMS mount rail sounds like the easiest option. This is a problem I don't mind throwing money at if somebody else has done the work to create the product. I'm betting 80/20 or an equal product is available as well. The RMS has cable tracking, so that's already a plus. The problem with each one free standing, which I do like and have seen, is the cable management for each power cord. I'm with you on keeping the sump off the floor. I'm sure my partner is as well. What I'd do is just put a whole board over the bottom, instead of just bracing. Alternatively, and she will hate this idea, but I love it, is plumb it down into my basement. In the immediate it's probably not feesable, but I'm waiting for us to refinish a few floors before I make dedicated commitment to a small fish room or space down in the basement. Then I'd do something even bigger and probably build a water mixing station instead of trashcans, etc. OK, enough dreaming. The problem with the 45 degree fittings is that I'm reducing from 1.5" from the overflow into 1" into the sump. Might mean I just have to do it earlier. I do like the idea of keeping the very front open for a box for electronics, like the MP controllers, and an apex display if I ever go that route. This will eventually be covered with a "U-like facade" that will slide over the aluminum frame and make it look like a wooden stand, with doors and all, just like the nano (except the nano is all wood.) This will also make it easier to move in the future.

Evolution: I won some Noopsyche LED's for the 80 gallon. I had never heard of them before, but they had reached out to me in the past about sporting them. I received them in the mail last week, and they visually seem to be a good amount of light. I plan to sign up for the par meter so I can actually figure out what it looks like going from my LED/T5 combo over to two of these V7 K3's. I'm debating ordering another one, which I think would fit the bill just right. Because of the peninsula, I won't be able to use the arms, so I'm thinking about a lacquered board with holes drilled through it mounted with an ATI hanging kit. Ideally I'd like to be able to hold 3 lights, and mount it to the ceiling as cleanly as the other lights are in the office. Anybody have some ideas? I might reach out to some folks that I know have access to a CNC machine and see if they can get something put together, but open to options! The other thing I'd like to figure out is what return pump I'm going to use. That and what to do with the sump. As the braces for the stand sit, the sump fits very snugly in-between the front and back. I had considered building a box underneath the braces and waterproofing it so the sump could still sit on the floor, however, if I put it on top of the braces, or built a ledge on which the sump could sit, I could have it slide out the back so the plumbing would drop directly down into the sump from the external overflow box. What's everybody's thoughts?