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Thats cool!. My display tanks can be swapped in and out over the years. What I am most concerned about is a functional Mech./Fish room. A system that ensures stability. Tanks come-and-go but mechanical rooms are for the long haul. Most important IMO: Skimmer, Water movement in tank.

Thanks anyway. I don't plan on taking the time to get a PayPal account so I can edit a post. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I offered to pay my $25 Member-ship fee which is WELL worth it and a great value. I was gonna mail it but decided just to wait and bring a check to my 1st meeting. So in the mean time due to my pathetic spelling and picture input my threads are pretty horrible and redundant. Can't you find another way to apply leverage and or compel new members to pay the fee? A way that does not penalize everyone by struggling through un-edited posts? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oops wrong invoice. Why is it in everyones best interest for us not to be able to edit our posts? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back-Up return Pump came today. If I'm gone for a month or so and my Main Pump goes out it could be a week or so to get one that pumps 6,250GPH and can handle the 18 foot of head pressure. If this pump goes out my Neptune Apex will text me and I can have some one cone over and replace it with this back-up pump. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I will share the below picture for those who may have a piano near, (in my case the next room). I learned the hard way. I wish I knew about these 4' heat stripe you can attach below stuff to fight off the corroding effects of salt-water humidity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

.........Chocolate Bamboo....... In keeping with the Tropical/Nautical theme I am going to build the top for my Display tank Saturday. I'm also going to have the entire top counter-balanced and in rails so with one finger it can be easily lifted up to as much as 36", allowing complete access. The light fixtures will remain in a fixed position in the hood. Hood will be vented into a Lifebreath heat recovery ventilator. Below is a basic idea of how the HRV system works. Not every needs a system like this....its just my system evaporated 9 gallons a day. My wife gave me the dirty eye when the man tuning our Piano asked how the strings on such a new Piano were so rusty.....oops....thats when you say...."Wow thats strange, I have no idea!" And then you quickly buy a HRV. Below are the rails/tracks I attach to the hood. They are very smooth and can hold 750 lbs. I know my hood will only weigh a fraction on that as well as being counter weighted with one stainless cable going through a single 1/4" hole into the ceiling then over two pulleys and counter weighted to 5 pounds less than the hood weight. Hopefully I don't screw it up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They have white egg crate in the Gresham Home Depot

Awsome!

Jaubert plenum......Power Compacts, I still have a older fixture I don't use with 2 400W MH sockets and 2 96W Power Compacts....7200 Kelvin I think. Hey Man it grew some narly Ca stick!

Been looking for a relaxing old-school light for my Sump Room. Ran across one today. Something about it reminds me of Nautical? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Come on over to my house and I'll give you a piece of base rock for your tank. Try Home Depot T5 fixtures. some under $100.

Ha Ha Aaahhhha Lol! Sorry Jorge I couldn't help myself. You set yourself up for that one....I just had to bust your chops. I knew what you meant the second I read it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dawg-on-it. It didn't come from out-of-the-water.......it was on the Beach! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, 280 lbs Calcium Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Emerald, I think I got a hernia moving it the 1st time by hand. Not gonna make that mistake again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is one reason a person might want to put this rock into a "curing-like" process and that would be if your system had med-high levels of phosphates and you were worried about hair Algae. Base rock that are not covered with Coraline Algae are much more susceptible to hair Algae growth. For some reason the Coraline Algae on base rock make the rock more difficult for the hair Algae to get a start on the rock. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All the die-off from sitting out of water......Im not following you. What die off? It was on the beach when I found it. Nothing alive on it. Been getting pounded by rain for a few years in my back yard. It wont cause a amonnia spike it will prevent one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The only reason to "cure" rock is if there is still live organisms that may die off and foul your tank. This rock is squeaky clean free of anything alive. Just a 280 pound chunk of Calcium etc. It will get covered with Coralineu Algae and critters soon. Yea, it is a monster......I still have the hernia to prove it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jorge, Whats to cure. I drug it off the beach in a secluded cove a few years ago? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No. Its going into the, (pictured below), last stage of my Filter System: I will: 1. Pressure wash, 2. Cut bottom flat with wood-hand-saw, 3. Drill 10 or more 1" holes up 20" or so from the bottom which you wont be able to see for mor bacteria surface, 4. Top portion will stick out of water with Mangrove trees growing out if it, 5. Have lights on over it at night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Moved it with my Kabota tractor from the back-yard. Going into STAGE 5 of my Water Treatment System. In the last 150 gallon Rubber-Maid Sump with 6,250 GPH Dolphin Pump. I had picked about 4,000 pounds of base rock from the Island of Maui with the help of my brothers 22' Dauntless. I was planning on setting up a large tank but the more I looked at some of them the more I came to the conclusion that most of them ended up looking like a fish-only tank with a lot of brown SPS corals. IMO 250-300 gallon display tank is manageable re: adequate lighting, filtration, water movement and ok space for coral growth. It cost me about $1.25 a pound to collect, build enclosed pallets and transport by ship to the Port of Portland. Each piece was hand chosen by me for it's shape, holes, hiding places and character. I'm gonna sell a few thousand pounds a piece at a time if anyone is interested. I cut the bottoms flat so it can sit directly on the glass bottom with NO sand under it. Extremely stable and you can easily slide it one way or the other if need after corals grow on it if a coral grows into glass side of tank etc. ALSO, great for much better water circulation and clean tank bottom. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Good luck man! Sorry I was not much help.