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Oh the new tank is really coming along! I’ll try to get some good pics, although gads it is so big all the coral frags look so tiny. All the custom paneling to enclose the stand and button it all up should be delivered in four to six weeks.

All serious work takes place in Crocs Looking good! Are you going to have any access from the living room or plan to clean the front from in the garage?

Not the final rock work, but coming along! Coral should start to go in in about a week. Lighting wise running 10 A360s. Still waiting on all the cabinetry and wanescoating. Will eventually be enclosed on the top and bottom so the only way to see between the rooms is through the tank.

Ha! Yes Robert should rename the thread. The first tank was 180, this new tank is closer to 500 Dimensions 121” x 30” x 31”

Plumbing done and fully connected into the existing system! Yesterday Ansel and Robert (but mostly Ansel) loaded in 1,000 lbs of sand and rock.

36” tall! Time to breakout the snorkel ….

Move in day!

For the lighting are you going to create a chase in the wall to conceal the cables? Or add the electrical above the tank and go with an enclosed hood?

Stand installed, electrical done, plumbing stubbed out. Just waiting on the Sheetrock crew to patch everything up then we’ll move in big Bertha

I It does, although the Neptune pumps are powered by a separate four pronged connector that are a bit on the fragile side. There is a YouTube video about using a soldering iron to replace a capacitor that gets burned out when the pump goes. A little more adventure than I was up for For the...

My son’s Neptune Systems COR15 pump died after two years and fried the EB832 on his fresh water tank. The failure turned all the outlets on so his sump ended up getting cooked by the heaters, luckily the fish were fine since the pump was dead. I now really like having the pump as just a regular...

Definitely orange. I had a red Haddoni before that due to a bad salt batch didn’t make it. The importer said they only get in a couple of orange ones per year. Here is another terrible pic under natural light that shows the color a little better.

Yeah I had heard they like to burrow down into the substrate. I have a 2” sand bed. I can add more in the area I would like it to stay if you think it would help. Really trying to avoid having him pull a Godzilla in the tank Here are some pics. The first was taken by the seller. Under my light...

Well I might have made a bit of a noob mistake. On Black Friday I found a great deal on a beautiful Haddoni online. The description said 7 - 8” but this guy is much bigger, also a crazy bright orange which is wild. The base foot in the QT tank is at least 3” tall. I have one spot in our tank...

Been a crazy busy couple of months. Here are a few pictures of the system maturing. Robert has brought some amazing corals. My kids and I also made it down to Anaheim for Reefapaloza and got some fun pieces (note to self just like Vegas best to establish a budget ahead of time …). Only set back...

Yeah same material that is used in bathrooms. You can actually soak it in water and it won’t swell like Sheetrock.

I the aluminum wrap at the 160 stall point is the key! I pull slightly before 203 and do a quick finish on the grill of both sides to crisp up the bark. Sooooo good!!! If you want to go truly overboard look up a Tusla Torpedo … anything that involves a full on bacon weave you know is going to be...

My friend has a green egg. He absolutely loves it. We went with a Kalamazoo hybrid grill (gas burners 9” bellow trays where you can add wood or charcoal) and a Memphis Elite smoker. Both we absolutely love and would highly recommend.

Sorry for this ‍that is the hand slapping face emoji. Not sure why it is coming through as the male sign on the computer ...

I grew up in Oklahoma where BBQ is a way of life. When I first moved to the bay in ‘99 I remember a coworker invited a bunch of us over to his house for a summer BBQ. I was so excited not having had good BBQ in a while. When I showed up they had a Weber with hamburgers and hotdogs cooking ‍♂️ I...