BowieReefer84

I haven’t glued any of the plumbing on the 40 breeder yet but planning on putting it perpendicular to the stock tank. I’ll run a separate pump to the far side and it will drain back into sump. I don’t plan on doing a full siphon on this drain. I have enough room to get completely around everything as well including trash cans. Any thoughts or potential better ways people see?

I drained the stock tank moved the stock tank to final location and tied it into the main tank. I’m going to keep corals in stock tank with lights while I put new rock in display to cycle it. I still need to plumb in the 40 breeder but I’m getting there.

Very very very cool spot. Visited today and was quite impressed with the effort they are putting in to offer coral and fish without disease or pests. sounds like they just opened to the public recently after having been focusing on tank maintenance and commercial builds for some number of years. they had a number of very impressive display tanks. im definitely going back once I’m ready to add more corals and fish. limited hours so check before going.

That’s right. I left the main drain long to trim it once all setup and running. I’m not sure what the water level will end up in the stock tank yet. I now have four 30gal brutes to drain the stock tank so I can move it to final location and refill. I had to get two more unions so I can get it in place without having to undue the pipes that are clamped in place. I am enjoying this reset.

Dang. Grew up Bowie. Live in hoco. Never heard of this spot. Gonna check it out.

I’m going to use the 100gal stock tank as a sump directly behind tank. With that setup I did the plumbing pretty easy. I’m gonna run the old sump as another tank in the system and can plumb that in after stock tank in place. I’ll trim the full siphon right below waterline once it’s all setup. I left it long for now. I’m just gonna run one return line. I capped the other one off of I ever feel like using it in future. I may plumb the UV through it independently. Would also give me a backup return from sump if either one were to fail.

One layer of vinyl still had transparency. Luckily the piece I ordered was 10’ long. This is two layers of oracle 651 in deep sea blue. Now I can finish plumbing overflow and adding water. Not too much left to go. The front left gap in rocks is where my clam will go.

I’m tapped out. The acrylic paint I bought was NOT working well. Now I’m waiting on some vinyl to arrive. Hoping 3rd times the charm.

Google “negative space aquascape.” Bust up your rocks with a hammer. Get some foundation Marco rock for the base. Use liquid super glue and Marco powder plus some epoxy or Marco mortar. The BRS NSA is one of the nicest I used as inspiration. I kept watching videos and looking at photos online. I have about 32oz of liquid super glue plus the e Marco mortar holding this together. It’s 3 pieces that are easily moveable. This is going in a 120. Put in the effort now because you won’t want to redo this once it’s wet.

Frosted won’t work. Plumbing shows right through. Oh well. Now I have to paint back.

I pulled the black vinyl off. I’m putting frosted white vinyl on back this time. Used some suction cups and two buddies and it went quite smooth. I’ll start filling it tomorrow. I really want to keep it bare bottom this time for simplicity. I have purple 1/2” insul underneath. I wish it was only 1/4” to get things to line up better but it worked. It came with some thin black foam but it wasn’t cut quite square and I didn’t want the bottom black

I had sent you a PM. I got some dry rock from you a few years back. Check your messages and text me. Thanks!

I drip kalk 24/7 and still need to supplement with about 50ml of AFR a day in my system.

One tip would be do an icp test on brand new mixed saltwater. It will give you a good baseline. I was having issues and turned out the salt I was using at the time was the culprit.