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Cool.

Looks like you have it held together with screws. Can you just back them out take some of the stand apart and re-cut? That would be safer than laying awake at night worrying that the stand won't hold.

If the kids are boys stock the tank with small girls.

Ahhhhh Cap aquarium that's the one. Thank you all.

Sorry I can not remember the name and cant seem to find it in vendor area. Not artfully acrylic.

Hmmm maybe I should have you and your family over for BBQ this spring and tap into your engineering genius.

I wish I could figure out how to run RO lines 30 feet from my garage to my tank.

Very nice.

If I don't dose for PH how do I keep it at the optimal 8.2 ??

BML?

60" 8 bulb ATI.......for the 2 days it has been up it is AWSOME. And thank you. (I try to hide the bills of what I have spent so far from the wife, if she finds out I will be looking for single female WAMAS members because she will leave me even after 28 years).

I tried to push the PH up some by using a ph 8.2 buffer and it went up for a couple hours to 8.1 then today it was 7.9 again. I have not measured the Cal, Mag yet because I was not prepared to put anything in the tank. I have a BRS 3 part doser for cal alk mag but have not hooked it up because I thought if I just started dosing with nothing in to consume things it would go off the chart. I know this is silly and old hat to most of you but I am still trying to learn and understand all these things, so forgive my ignorance.

Ok the tank I have had up for a week now shows: Nitrite .1< ammonia .25< Nitrate 5. alkalinity 10.5KH PH 7.9 Temp 79.1 Salinity 35ppt What is bothering me is the alk seems very high. I do not have a skimmer running and have no air stones. Could the lack of oxy be driving it up or is this not level not an issue? The only thing in the tank is rock, some pieces moved from the old tank, Chaeto in the sump along with some rock with coralline algae on it.

I want to have some coral and lots of softies...maybe 8 fish at most. (other than my two clowns I already have not sure on fish type). I don't want to over do it. Not sure on what a 180g will support so I will take it slow.

Wow that was awesome Tom. If I was not over an hour and half away I would tell you to put me on your call for help list.

Ok here I started putting rock in. Here it is with cabinet finished, full of water and new ATI light hung. Here are the new lights on (They are super bright). I can't wait to get some coral to put in this thing. Just looking at it not sure if I should add more rock or not? I am pretty happy with the end product even though it was a lot of work.

It will probably look a bit ghetto till things grow in. I used a lot of reef rock 2.0 I already had with some rock from BRS. So the colors are a little strange.

Has anyone ever had one of these and if so what was your impression. Good/Bad, why. Thank you.