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Lucas

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    Springville, IN
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    Aquariums, Vivariums, Fishing, and golf.
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    125g reef and 60g frag tank

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  1. Did you ever find anywhere that sells large sheets of glass?
  2. I haven't looked into it much, but I believe I would need another strain to fertilize. Just as well, I don't know what the heck I would do with thousands of brown toadstools growing everywhere.
  3. Should I just start feeding heavy? I was spot feeding Brightwell reef snow, but noticed my montis looked a little burnt (white) where it settled on them, so I backed off with the feeding.
  4. My brown sarco was spawning again this evening: https://goo.gl/photos/NzPAdrmM8jsmrXDg6
  5. I ordered the pool cleaner and made a reactor for the socks. I was ready to start dosing when I tested my phosphates...0 ppm! I think my algae is consuming them all. I have a large amount of bryopsis in the frag tank and chaeto in the sump. No visible growth in the display tank. Any thoughts? I'm using a hanna to check- tested it 3 times and am confident I performed the test correctly. -Lucas
  6. Sorry, I've been working a lot. Westfield- I was more concerned with the weight of glass during shipping/moving. I have converted my garage into a fish room, so it's on a slab. Static weight once filled is not a problem. If I assembled it myself, the weight of each plate would be manageable. Luke- I ended up thinning down my coral and anemones a lot, and it fits in the 125 for now. I started growing SPS in a third of the tank, so that will hold me off for at least a year. I was also holding off because I was researching Solatubes for a large tank. I've decided that it will not work. When I do upgrade, I plan on 400W 10k halides with a quality reflector raised higher. It will be a deep tank (at least 36"), but not growing anything on the bottom. Plywood with pondarmour probably, with an accepted life expectancy of 5-10 yrs. I want to build a false room in the garage that the tank face is in and connects to the kitchen. The room would have a couch and be kind of a lounge to view the tank. The tank and garage would surround the false room. The geometry of the tank depends on whether I go bare bottom again. In such a deep tank, the detritus must be consumed or it must be sucked out from the bottom. Right now I'm liking the sand bed, so would probably lean towards a rectangular tank with traditional overflows and have sandsifters. Sorry for the book- let me know what you all think. -Lucas
  7. I wasn't really concerned with the weight once it's set up, only while moving it. I converted my garage to a fishroom, so I'm on a slab. I've pretty much decided to go with a plywood tank. I haven't decided the shape yet, though. I'm considering having an 8 ft tank that is deep in the front, but then tapers to the back. Both the sides and the bottom taper- to exaggerate the perspective, and to save volume.
  8. Awesome overflows! What printers do you have?
  9. I just put a sandbed in my 125 and it really brought the fish out. I'm now a fan again. I wonder if you glued eggcrate down on the slope if the sand would stay?
  10. Ok, so everyone check out those last set of links- sorry for the delay. Was that the sarcos spawing?
  11. You're talking about the center brace in the stand? You could use a couple of jacks to support the tank while you work the sump out, by moving them as you walk it out, but it might be a little risky.
  12. I have a new idea for a plywood tank- something that will give a larger footprint but not the volume. How about a tank that has a normal vertical plate glass front, and then a sloped bottom that starts at the bottom front edge and meets the back top edge? Like a triangle from the side view. This would save from having a bunch of base rock stacked to create the height, and you could still have drains in the front bottom that would export detritus during a water change. You could glue strips in it to stop rock slides. This would be an in-wall tank. Any show stoppers with this idea?
  13. Ok, let's try this: https://picasaweb.google.com/102930355073427539490/20151129?authuser=0&feat=directlink <table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://www.gstatic.com/pwa/s/v/lighthousefe_20151220.00_p0/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/102930355073427539490/20151129?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fTnWaOoxd8A/Vl5i83pBi4E/AAAAAAAADWY/34IHo-9-PRg/s160-c-Ic42/20151129.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/102930355073427539490/20151129?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">2015-11-29</a></td></tr></table> I don't know how to imbed photos- tell me if the link worked or the embedded photo. Thanks.
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