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Holes punched! Today I drilled two 2.5 inch holes for the Reef Synergy overflow, and two 1 inch holes for the return lines. Drilling went well, no hiccups and no chips! Everything rough installs perfectly! In a couple of days I'm going to paint the back panel, and then it's time to let the silicone finish curing and water test everything.
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And a couple pics of my helper who was snoring the whole time:
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And a couple pics of my helper who was snoring the whole time:
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Looks good. I would take some of those loc line sections out though to maximize return flow.
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I seriously had a dream that the tank fully set up and in place and a seam ruptured (slowly somehow?) and I grabbed a ratchet strap to try to stop it from all out. As I tightened the ratchet strap the center panel started cracking right in the middle! The cracking was like a scene in a movie where the glass cracks a little then stops...then a little more and stops....then just completely fails!
The 2/3 water test fill. I’m terrible with fractions so don’t judge my 2/3 too closely!
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I'm not a particularly patient person, but I have nothing "free" to do after this. I'm trying to wait till black Friday deals to get a lot of the remaining items. So I have a lot of sitting around and staring to do. Plus it delays the tank swap which is going to be a giant pain in the neck...and back...and everything else. So I'm really in a holding pattern anyway, and since I've never re-sealed a tank before I wanted to increase the pressure on the seams slowly so my nightmares don't come true.
That tank looks like it’s got a little bow to it. Haha. Bad humor. Guilty as charged!
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So in a Black Friday rage I think I accidentally ordered the wrong kind of sand...but what I got might actually work? Let me explain....
Thought I was ordering black sand, but what I got was actually black gravel. The brand is CaribSea Aragonite:
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The individual pieces of "gravel" are like the size of a grain of rice. Definitely not the sugar like size I thought I was ordering. But the more I think about it the more I think this may work because it might be less likely to blow around in the current? It was $30 for a 20# bag, I got it on sale for $16 per bag with free shipping.
So am I crazy for keeping it, or is this stuff actually OK? I've only ever ran tanks with sand that is fine texture like sugar. This stuff sort of reminds me of a goldfish aquarium...
Thought I was ordering black sand, but what I got was actually black gravel. The brand is CaribSea Aragonite:
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The individual pieces of "gravel" are like the size of a grain of rice. Definitely not the sugar like size I thought I was ordering. But the more I think about it the more I think this may work because it might be less likely to blow around in the current? It was $30 for a 20# bag, I got it on sale for $16 per bag with free shipping.
So am I crazy for keeping it, or is this stuff actually OK? I've only ever ran tanks with sand that is fine texture like sugar. This stuff sort of reminds me of a goldfish aquarium...
Other than purely aesthetics, I have found zero reason to ever use sugar sand, so the size you have now is great. Sand sifters and borrowers need the larger grain size so their tunnels don't easily cave in.
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