Excellent. I will have to crunch some numbers but I should be in the custom with a budget category.

Just to be clear, if I buy glass or acrylic for a custom sized tank that is not part of the budget? If I decide to go nuts and build a titanium and carbon fiber stand (not that I plan to do that; even though that would be cool) then that is not part of the budget?

Yep glass and acrylic is free. However the stand is not part of the contest and IMO shouldn't be judged as such, even though its not part of the budget either :biggrin:

Oh I like the rules and categories you picked!!! Except the above rule. I was on the fence about joining the contest just because of space restrictions, but I wasn't expecting this rule here. This rule will keep me out as I am setting up a 90g right now and I was planning on just putting some of my current corals into the contest tank (and taking them out after the contest was over), but many of them I've had for less than 6 months or right around 6 months, and I can't afford buying extra livestock at this point. I imagine this will be a tough rule to police too. I will think about it though, and maybe I will do a pico or something like that... :D

Well the reason I put that in was because of the pricing I chose for items from your tank. Its easy to say "oh I'll buy this for my big tank for $70" and then a week later put it in your nano and charge $35. I was thinking that corals that had been in there for awhile might be easier. But you're right, I suppose when you think about it, policing the whole thing might be a pain in the arse because no matter how hard you try to make rules steadfast, theres always a way around them.

The reason I tried to do it that way is because I want this nano to be a challenge. To me, setting up a nano for less than $500 is a challenge. I thought it might help the budgets by being able to frag things out of another tank.

I dunno, personally, making the budget bigger or separating it into equipment and livestock, each with massive budgets has no interest for me. The meat of this contest for me are the tanks with a budget. The unlimited tanks are all about the freedom of creativity while the budget tanks are about financial creativity :wink:

I kinda gotta agree with Myka... that's a strange rule.. haha Some of the things in my tank, I don't even know how long they have been in there... :lol: I'd have to go through my own build thread to find out exactly when I added it.. haha!

Ok I'll remove it then and add something else.:razz:

Meh, nevermind. I just removed it. I guess we'll see what happens. I can already feel the headache settling in :wink:

so, could I start building everything today lets say and just wait to add water etc until June 1st?

????? Christy???? I've got stuff I need...just y'know...need to build it... I hate waiting LOL

LOL, I'm thinking about it!!:razz:

!!!! think faster woman LOL looking at all this PVC/acrylic/empty tank is driving me nuts LOL