Entries pertaining to plumbing
Green Your Reef!Welcome to the first edition of Green Your Reef! As the title suggests, I'll be writing about matters that pertaining to "Green" aspects of reefkeeping. But, "Green"? What exactly is it and what can it do for you? For my purposes here I'll use Green to frame issues such as new technology, efficiency matters of electric and water consumption, reusing and recycling when you can, sustainibility issues in the marine fish and coral trade, educate and ...
Not overly exciting, but you can see the true DIY nature of my work tank. This is my Tunze 9002 DOC skimmer from a good friend that will remain nameless. Thank you sir if you're reading this... It's gotten a lot of great reviews so I'm really expecting quite a bit out of it. Here's a full front shot of the tank and stand. It's totally DIY. I built it after my Vikings lost Sunday so I had lost some ...
Updated 01-26-2010 at 06:10 AM by Digital Aquatics
Now that the tank is on it's stand I'm going to start working on the water flow. Once I get the skimmer in I'll be working on the in tank sump and overflow. And I know, I know... Pictures are coming!
I know some people on here wanted to see some pics of my basement after describing it and the "friends" that live down there. Well I still am undecided about tanks down there but this weekend I will install my RO/DI. My unused tanks: My tree trunk floor joists: An exhaust fan that I am sure can be incorporated into a tank: ...
So right before New Year's Eve I had to go out to Terre Haute, Indiana. I hate going out there but was obliged for family business so we rented a car and made the 10 hour drive(620 miles). My wife actually looking for something to do out there other then do the normal sight seeing(a ton of stuff in town is named after my family but is pretty boring) looked up some things. She found this place there called inland aquatics, I thought OK a nice fish store to waste an hour in. Holy crap was I wrong. ...
Updated 01-20-2010 at 09:30 AM by drakedeming