Tank Entry

Well folks, the time has come. By tomorrow there will be salt water in them there tank....

The aquarium has been moved into the office. Rockwork installed. Plumbing tightened (the many bulkheads that is!). I have bags of live sand and salt ready to go. The RODI machine is SLOWLY churning. I'm only making about 5 gallons every three hours or so. More tomorrow when it will look almost ready for fishies and coral.

Major construction finished, I'm moving on to fit and finish. Next up is electrical. Last iteration of this tank had a power strip velcro'd to the inside of the stand and lighting on an analog timer. That was not going to fly for the revised version. I started by installing outdoor grade PVC conduit. I installed a double gang box for outlets and a single gang box for a switch that would control one of the two outlets.


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As I continued my rebuild, I wanted to change the stand to hide the additional plumbing that was being added. I had extended the base of the stand to provide extra room for the sump, and that needed hiding as well. I had an idea that it would be possibly to add a vertical board to cover the sides. This would necessitate extending the canopy as well, which was not going to be an easy task. I would need to change how the canopy was hinged. Here is what I came up with.

I extended the ...