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Kilz makes a primer they recommend using on bare wood to seal it before the final color coat.

Thanks for trying to fix it!

I love looking at Kickstarter for ideas, it really gets the creativity flowing. You should try it! I have a project I'm working on that I think I might like to try crowdsourcing with.

Well, I tried to fix the embedding code, but it only looks right in the editor. Once saved, it didn't work. That's a squirrelly site to grab code from, unfortunately. Getting just the video URL address and putting it in the Video brackets didn't work.

Nifty idea, and look at how much was pledged vs what they wanted up front. I need to get something on that site, it seems.

Wow......very cool. They need to mount the camera on that Sea Turtle and let him do the mapping! A 100 years or more of mapping!

Cool! Now I don't have to travel or get a dive rating, I can just sit home on my computer.
Seriously though, very cool.

Thanks for finding this, it's pretty amazing!

It embedded fine. You just can't tell with Preview-mode. Paste in the Long URL of the video in the Video Clip icon's window, and when you submit, it shows up correctly & viewable.

Originally Posted by melev

What kind of sand is that?

It's a corse aragonite sand. It took forever to rinse and clean.

What kind of sand is that?

If you can't get Coralvue to send it north of the border try http://premiumaquatics.com/store/merchant.mvc they have a wide range of pumps and that is how I replaced my pump about a week ago.

It was just plywood, a length that was left over from an older project actually. The wood just kept sucking the paint in over and over. You'd put your coats on, it'd look great, it'd dry, and then you'd start to see some of the crazy absorption. Some wood got 5 coats, some got 6 over about two weeks. I've never previously used Kilz on wood, just on drywall, so I'm really not sure if this is normal or not, but it does kind of fall in line with what I saw when I re-finished my kitchen this summer.

I'll get in touch with Coralvue and maybe they can point me to someone who can ship north of the border. Thanks!

I can't believe the kilz didn't do the job in two coats, what were you painting over? Have you tried finding a replacement pump on coralvue's website, I am sure they can ship to Canada?

Originally Posted by joeogio

cool fish! what kind is it? haven't seen one quite like it

He's actually a regal tang, looks like a regular black and blue one 90% of the time.

You've really taken your time with this project, much longer than I could have ever dreamed of. Hopefully this will pick up steam once more.

cool fish! what kind is it? haven't seen one quite like it

Very beautiful fish you got there. Billybob's a keeper!

Hey Michika,
Glad to see updates on your tank, Hope to see it running soon.
Looks like the baffles are too close to each other (I'm sure Marc will be the one to check with on this) and that the middle baffle goes too close to the bottom which will make the flow throught he baffles fastger than you want to allow air bubbles to escape?

Sounds nice.

Hahah.

I'll take you some better shots this weekend once we get the sump in place. So the middle baffle doesn't really go to the bottom, it is cut out at the bottom to allow water flow. The edges are polished too!

Marc, I think you have her panicking now