officer tanks, where they at

[matt]

Ha! It's NOTHING compared to Monkiboy's from the pictures I've seen. There are definitely changes that I'd make.

 

To be fair to myself, a lot of my spare time over the last 33 months building out the basement in our new-to-us home since moving from Ashburn. Early on, I had a tank crash after trying to do too much too soon while moving the tank, and lost nearly all of my corals. (Nothing good every happens fast in a reef tank.) After spending 6 months praying for some recovery, I collected over 5 gallons of new "crushed coral" for my calcium reactor from what used to be alive and thriving. Anyway, the tank doesn't get nearly the attention that the basement project has been getting. Thankfully, I think I'll finally be done by the time summer rolls around.

 

Here's what I did this past weekend: Put in a new floor, baseboard and shoe moulding in what will be my home office. Jenn, when you saw this room the other day, the floor was concrete.

 

 

Nice flooring job! That DIY is in my not-too-distant future as well...and why I'm going to have to move my tank...ugh

[Origami]

Nice flooring job! That DIY is in my not-too-distant future as well...and why I'm going to have to move my tank...ugh

Thanks. It's the first time for me for flooring like this. I've done tile, linoleum and carpet before, but not laminate. One room down and another plus a hallway to go. 42 boxes of laminate overall for this part of the basement (what I affectionately refer to as "Phase III").

[AlanM]

I can't really believe that a thread is posted on getting pics of the officer's tanks and Tom posts up a picture of his bare floor and he doesn't get jumped on for posting laminate flooring, but no tanks.  Sheesh, Tom, post up the tank FTS!  (Nice floor, btw, what's that red outlet next to the power on the right wall?)

[YHSublime]

I would consider your living room a "fish room" haha

 

It's dual purpose, that's how us city folk work.

 

I can't really believe that a thread is posted on getting pics of the officer's tanks and Tom posts up a picture of his bare floor and he doesn't get jumped on for posting laminate flooring, but no tanks.  Sheesh, Tom, post up the tank FTS!  (Nice floor, btw, what's that red outlet next to the power on the right wall?)

 

Great point, Alan! I am eager to see Origami's tank as well!

[Origami]

I can't really believe that a thread is posted on getting pics of the officer's tanks and Tom posts up a picture of his bare floor and he doesn't get jumped on for posting laminate flooring, but no tanks.  Sheesh, Tom, post up the tank FTS!  (Nice floor, btw, what's that red outlet next to the power on the right wall?)

LOL.

 

Regarding the "red" outlet. You're actually looking into a low voltage box there where I've dragged 2 Cat5e cables and a coax. There are 4 such drops in this room. I like hardwired connections where possible. I've yet to terminate these - will be ordering the parts tonight. That's why you're looking into the box.

[pizzaguy]

Tom. You can't avoid this one. It's power and peer pressure in numbers. Haha

[Origami]

Ok. Here's where I am today with the tank. As you can see, I've not completely finished trimming out the doors. I'll get to it when the big stuff is done. In the meantime, the display is a mish-mash of mature colonies, mini colonies started from tiny frags, and other stuff. I'm looking forward to the time I can actually spend more time with it. In the meantime, it's pretty stable and operating on cruise control on most days.

 

 

 

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[davelin315]

My tank is in a state of limbo - lost all corals a couple of years ago to an overflowing toilet the floor above and lost all fish to a velvet outbreak... Still deciding how to proceed and whether to tear down and start over or do a borough cleaning and disinfection and then reseed. Further complicating the decision is a much larger tank sitting in my garage waiting to be installed as a replacement of the current tank. My build thread is pretty old but linked below...

[PK3]

Tom, absolutely beautiful tank. You should show it off more often!

[pizzaguy]

Very nice tom.