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Tank Filled by yesterday. I put some more cured live rock. Since there is no substrate at the bottom, I can see small creature is finding their food on the bottom glass and swimming around. I am sure this is an indication that the water is still healthy. Everything is going fine; otherwise, all the creature may die.

An Accident:

I felt that I am strong enough and will able to place sump inside the stand, while I was trying to be strong and tried to ...

I really could use some help. this may be long also sorry.
I just got my sump on Tues, thats the good part I hope. here is what I think is my problem. 1 will not fit under cabinet unless I take tank apart and start over. 2 is there ever a time when I will have to take sump out from under the tank. 3 should I wait until I get my skimmer then do everything at once. 4 here are the numbers to help with next question,
sump dim are H 16" L 24 " it is divided by one single partation, ...

Hi fellow addicts, My name is Sheldon Wiseman and I live in Moncton, New Brunswick Canada. I have been involved in the hobby for about 8 years now. I started out like most folks with a 20 gallon "Nemo" tank after watching the movie with my kids about 30 times. Well 8 years and an entire line of credit later, I am now up to my dream system. Unfortunately, this current system is not my wifes dream system. It is far too noisey, and I can not figure out why. The purpose of ...

Hi, I am a very ignorant (reef tank) person who loves the hobby. Just starting my first 55G reef tank. Wish me luck (prayers would be appreciated). Currently have tank set up with live rock, live sand, snails, crab and lots of unknowns (ha). Begining "cycle" everything close to zero now. HEEEEEEEELLLLP !

I was going to do one big update but decided to break it up. This part is about my canopy. The system I got was a few years old and was really a fixer upper.

Son-in-law Tim helping me! They had some bad wood on canopy, looked like it wasn't seal to great! He took off all bad wood.



He replaced with all new wood. Notice I taped off the VHO caps to get ready for sealing and painting.

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