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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@Cilyjr FYI... https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/the-beast.34277/

Thanks, a lot of thought went into this build. I tried to take a little piece of every mistake that I could remember making and made an...

Thank you! I'm on the Coast not the valley. About 15 minutes south of San Luis Obispo. In the 5 cities area.

Oh the lights I forgot about that. I like the look of a floating canopy. I had 6 reefi uno 2.1 in my 320 and am happy with them, I...