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Upping the ante, eh! I feel challenged, now... Tom: When I had my A/C installed, they put a cleanout in the condensate drain. They said to pour some bleach in it every couple years to keep bacterial slime from clogging it. they also installed the whole unit in a metal pan that fills up with water and a float switch turns it off if it gets full...some ideas to look into? tim

Hey, I put a piece of cardboard down I even put a plastic bag down...until I realized the solvent melted it. No wife here...now we know why. Well, one of the reasons why

No kidding, that is some hard core purple! I like how you have the little chunk of flex tube in there, that keeps the entire thing from being rigid and gives it a little bit of play. That is what I was doing with the 3 short pieces of spa flex.

Thanks guys, I got it handled.

Make video of shrimp vs crab.

Great sale. I got 2 55s last time. The 55s and 40BRs are especially good deals.

Yeah it is for my African cichlid tank. You probably assumed it was fresh water due to the bio-wheel. I'm going to start a thread about bio-wheels and marine misnomers soon. Keep tuned. I put the union there for lots of reasons: 1) I could not get the assembly in place without it. The tank is 5" from the wall, full of water/rocks, and that bottom rigid part sticks out like 18". I could barely get it in place using the union. 2) I always try to have at least one union in my plumbing so I can get the thing apart more easily. 3) It makes the plumbing look bigger, bulkier, uglier, more complicated. 4) It let me sniff more PVC cement fumes.

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I usually take some pride in my plumbing and its appearance, but my latest effort is by far the ugliest effort yet. I feel like I should take myself out back and shoot myself. I was trying to combine the 2 1" bulkheads from my overflow box into a single 1.5" pipe because I need a single pipe to plug into my tidepool sump. I wanted to use hose barbs, but just couldn't get the parts. So I use PVC. Notice how the spacing of the bulkheads is *JUST* too far apart to go straight into the wye fitting...so I had to use short runs of spa flex there. If those bulkheads were 1/4" closer, it would have been so much better. The last pic shows the sump connection (the last large piece of spa flex has been shortened to just a few inches in that pic) Yeah, this took a few trips to lowe's.

I don't think what I am looking for exists. I decided to go a different route involving hard PVC wye and spa flex. thanks

Trying to get 2 1" bulkheads to 1 1.5" tube without restriction. So, I put both bulkheads to 1.5" tube, then I just want to get them to a single tube. Funny you mention spa flex and cement. That is my alternative: Use hard plumbing to get both bulkheads to 1.5", then a 1.5" hard pvc wye, then cement 1.5" spa flex to it...that is probably what I will do since I am suspecting there is no 1.5" tubing wye.

Been looking for a while, can't find one. I have a 1" wye and a 1.5" T, need a 1.5" wye, argh

Did you try any? I had some clam sushi yesterday, it wasn't bad. It looked like this: LINK (red tip, white meat...anyone know what type of clam that is?) I couldn't tell what it was, so I asked the sushi guy. He told me it was "krom". All I could think of was Conan the barbarian. He said it slower, because he could tell I couldn't understand, "kroooommmmm". After like 3 or 4 times I finally realized he was trying to say "clam". Last time I had a dead clam I almost barfed when I took it out of the tank from the stench. Then again when I tasted it. You must have caught yours faster than I did. OK, OK, I didn't really taste it.

It is normal paint in a can. See image. I prefer a heavier coat than I get with spray paint, and I'm not very good at using spray paint. I bought it at Lowe's. $9/quart. I ended up using about 1.5quarts, but I could have gotten away with 1. There is quite a bit to paint overall on the inside, floor, etc. I only did 1 coat on all the interior parts of the stand except the floor. I used a good brush to apply it, and watched for drips for about an hour. For the final coat on the front of the stand, I laid the stand on it's back so the front was horizontal, so the paint would not run. This paint is for metal, and doesn't say anything about being useful for wood, but it seems great to me. I did some reading online, and found it is fine for wood. It is just oil based paint with some anti rust ingredients.

Same paint I used on my last stand that worked well and held up over the years: Black Oil Based Rust-Oleum. Went with Semi-Gloss this time. I think I used flat last time. Black paint isn't especially easy to find, as they can't mix it for you. I've been happy with this one, though. It stinks the house up for a few days, but after smelling it for a while, I just sink into my happy place.

I installed a few power strips...this pic was before I moved a cord to make a drip loop, but you get the idea I got a pic of the finished stand I like better...I still need to clean up trash laying around.

You'd be best off just buying another glass aquarium. It isn't too hard. You can't use caulk/silicone to build an acrylic tank, it will not work. You need to use a special solvent, and need the sides/edges to be very even/flat, which Lowe's will not do for you. You need them jointed.