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Ain't that the truth, no matter how bad the disaster I've had, and I've done them all, probably twice, I never said I'm gonna quit, just how am I gonna fix it. In fact, when I told my wife I was going to spend an extra $12,000 and go from 6 ft to 10 ft, her response was ” cool, you really only...

Here's what I did with the gap between the aquarium and the wall. There's another 2-ft Gap on the exterior side of the house between the shed. The pipes there are just outside but I insulated them pretty heavily. Then I built a stand over them and put my top off water on top of it in a brute. I...

Thanks. I'm getting close to the disasters of the beginning of November. Those will be the less fun posts.

I have 2 dedicated circuits 1 15 amp on the CLP and 1 20 amp non critical. Apex and the laminar flow pump are on critical also both return pumps. Lights and the mp-40s are not though 2 of the mo-40s are on a modified ecotech battery back up. Basically I pulled out the lead acid battery and...

Can you all tell I am sitting around on Thanksgiving with not much to do. I injured my neck the other day so I'm kind of just hanging out and putting a little bit more post up every time I've got the heating pad on

I was getting a bit tired of $600 electric bills from PG&e. So I decided to do my own solar. I had upgraded the panel shortly after we moved in to a 200 amp service. So that part was done. I did a little research into the solar systems that were available. Settled on EG4. Cuz the company I work...

Switches, Switches, Switches was the name of the game while doing the electrical, being able to turn stuff off quickly and easily is a huge advantage. I never found fumbling around in my pocket for my phone van. Trying to get the Apex app loaded. Worked well in an emergency. I guess I could...

Here's my Dr Seuss connection to the plumbing rough. I used a bit of spa flex to make my connections in case of a little ground shake. Having done so much plumbing for so many years, you'll not see any unions, I see them as failure points. If I need to redo something I will just cut it and use a...

Yes. I'm super happy with them The siphon hole is large enough that a small snail would not be able to stop it up. That said, I have some turbo snails that are the size of baseballs.

One thing I should have thought a little bit more about was the placement of the return lines. Because I only have room for a 75 gallon sump. It was very important to me to make sure during the power outage what siphoned off the top of the aquarium fit into the 75. My return holes were too low...

I did a bunch of rock work assuming what would be in the display would be mostly new stuff. With a lot of the old stuff in the some and a few structures from the old aquarium in the new display. Giving me about 60/40 ratio of new to old rock. I think as far as microbiome was concerned that was...

Here's a picture for scale. For some reason photos always make aquariums look smaller to me.

It was nerve wracking, but after about 3 hours it was in place.

I think I am to aquarium delivery day. The manufacturer would only ship to a shipping dock, in my case FedEx. We had to have a speciality moving company come in to move the tank and although I have a super duty with a lift gate he preferred to pick up the tank in his own vehicle. Which was a...

Drains are 6x 1.5 inch and returns are 2x 3/4 pipes. I have worked in both plumbing and HVAC. I am now at a large company where I do all of the buying. So sales reps go out of their way to give me cheap/free stuff. My joke with my wife is I never need to buy a new tee shirt or hat or hoodie so...

The part of The house with the aquarium sits was at one time an outdoor patio that people long before us built a room on. So it is solid concrete that it is sitting on. The downside was because it was outside slab. At one point the slope was pretty atrocious at .25 fall per foot. Great if you're...

Sure all I did was cut a 2x4 to length and screwed it in to the vertical beams. Because I was not going to put the skin along the back, I was not going to have a true torsion box without extra diagonal supports there. There is one on the right and 2 in the back from the middle to the next row of...

Thanks, I hope this will be a good reference point for me to remember what worked and did not and I hope it may spark an idea on others how read through it.

Sure, and I'll go more into this in a bit but, The holding tank had all the bells and whistles of my main system, I have 1 spare apex piece of every module I use in a box. Because I'm too reliant on it at this point. So when I set up the "trashcan" reef I had an entire 2nd apex at my disposal. A...

Sweet I made it to page 2. Ok at this point the stand and canopy were done, at one point my wife thought it would be nice if we could repaint. My reply was it's now or never. She wanted an accent wall behind the tank so that got a dark gray, while the rest of the room got a lighter grey, but...