bleedingthought":95bambv7 said:
Wazzel":95bambv7 said:
I still need to paint the inside of the hood, seal the insides of the doors and get all the hardware to finish out the wood work. Plumbing is going to be easy, 2ea 1.5 drains and 1ea 1.0 return.
Mark, what do you mean "seal the inside of the doors"? Liquid sealer, like poly? Or something like what Len did to the inside of his stand?
Also, I was looking at your stand thread, and since you don't have a middle brace, I somehow can't figure out how you have two doors. Could you explain how you did it and maybe post a picture of the back of the doors? And are you going to just use door catches instead of hinges?
And if it's not too much, I'd like to see a picture of the inside of the canopy, if you will, please. And what is the plywood you used to finish the stand called? I really like the way your whole build is coming together and would like to do something similar on my next tank. 8)
And one last thing, post some pictures of the whole thing put together and the sump progress!!!
Seal the door is to put poly on the insides. When I was sealing the fronts I could not flip them over to do the insides.
The door is not a big deal. I just cut the drop approx in half. On side is slightly longer that the other so you can not see a crack. Where the doors come together on one door the trim over hangs and the other the door sticks out further. I'll get some pice later to show the detail. I am going to use hindges and magnetic clips to hold them shut.
I have not worked on the inside of the canopy yet. It will be white. I am tryinf to get water in the tank so I am concentrating on that. Just got back from Lowes with supplies. Will work on it the next few nights. When I start putting the canopy to gether I will post some shots.
The wood is called blondwood. I used some regular pine plywood for the area that would not be seen. Like the top, the decked bottom and the piece to hang stuff on. Saved a few bucks that way.
I have not done anything since the I put it in the house post, except work on the sump.
For your other post.
Not planning a fuge or calcium reactor. Will add a kalk stirrer probably around Christmas.
AS for the stream.vortec question. I wanted somthing that was controalbale now and not possibly in the future and I am not to keen on having the motor stick off the side on my tank. I love to look long ways down a reef tank. I'm not trying to say anything bad about the vortec unit it is just not what I want.
