Recent content by WaveFanatic

Yes, I do understand that Lexan is not the acrylic. This glueing technique should still work though, since I'm using the Goop as a binder of the 2 different materials (not melting with a solvent like Weld-On). Goop works on most(if not all) forms of platics anyway. The real delema here is...

Just wanted to give my 2 cents in here. I have used this in 2 glass sumps of mine for setting up the dividers. I used Household Goop to attach the Lexan panes to the glass. There should be around a 1/16 of a inch gap between the joins so the Goop can fill it. Then once its dried for 24...

Just wanted to update you guys on this. We took this tank offline about 6 months ago. I had 3 major overflows due to the stand pipe clogging. Both SPS died a cruel death but the rest are surviving well in my 55 gal. Plus, the wife could not handle the mess it created while I was at work. I...

Just wanted to comment on this. We were also looking at the LOA fixture for lighting our 6 gallon, but we decided to opt out cause bulb replacement (I think) becomes an issue. What we noticed was the outdoor fixtures were being sold with 6500K bulbs, but we have never seen bulb replacements...

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I was totally shocked when we got picked for the sticky of the week. Thank you very much, this is such an honour for a tank that is so young. Well, we finally got the money to get some livestock. We have just added a very nice acropora (colony?) and montipora frag. The xenia has been in...

We finally got the flow problem fixed by drilling about 9 small holes on the plastic tubing that we use as directional nozzles. The current still strong as ever but managable. Our evap on this thing is about 2 liters a day, so we have to top off in the morning and at night. But temp is very...

Tank is currently cycling. As some of you might have guess, the flow is kinda strong and is causing small sand storms. Will take pics tonite so I can post them up. Thanks for the interest, sky Robert

killing the dupe...

Recognition from non-moderators, cool !!! Thanks for the compliments, all. We did kinda post this thing a bit early cause we wanted to everyone to form ideas from our designs. As far as the stand pipe, we are changing that to more of a durso style with some "screening" to guard against...

Brandon, thanks for the compliment again. We have always strived to make it as clean as possible. This thing is planned to be in my living room, so has to look good. But construction is just taking too long!!! Well, we decided to use a 7 gallon plastic trash can as the sump. In our first...

The bulbs are actually marked as 28 watts. But Hello Lights noted that they would work as 32 watters depending on the ballasts. So we setup the actinic to run a bit overdriven. I'm going to get some fans and add them on the backside of the cover, similar to your config. But we are also...

Since we were mounting it on the frame we needed to account for easier removal. So we used some extension cord for connecting the bulb sockets to the workhorse 5 ballasts. Heres the pic of the ballast connections.

Heres one that shows the mounting in detail. You could also see one of our nozzles.

OK, we are done with most of the lighting constuction. Heres the pics that shows the way we used the original framing of the eclipse for mounting. We still need to put clips though.