Setup is looking good. Always glad to see someone documenting their tank build...gives me more opportunity to figure stuff out before I try it.

Have you stopped the Zeo? You originally were doing a 6 month trial but didn't post for a year.

I have been having real mixed results with the zeo. In part I think because my Tunze 9010 skimmer wasn't really designed to work with that kind of system. I do like the system and think once I get this set up up and running with the new more aggressive skimmer I will try the zeo out once more.

Patience....I think its in the works. :wink:

I think you might've been right about that Christmas comment Doug, tank is a week and a half later then their most pessimistic estimate (so far) Hopefully it'll be here by this weekend. Good thing I have that 90 gallon horse water trough for the fish. My frag tank however is not looking good at all. I never anticipated It would have to be up and running this long, lost one of my clowns the other day :sad: It sucked cause she was my oldest. She started in the 10 gallon nano with me back in 2006. I guess 3 moves was just too much for her.

On a tank related note, should I be concerned about driving the tank an hour and a half in the back of a pickup in the freezing cold?

I got the stand done, just haven't gotten around to pictures of that yet. It's all Birch and Maple construction and I'm actually quite proud of my first real attempt at Cabinet Carpentry!!

Ok, I've gotta vent a little. Just talked to Gold's and it's not going to be ready for this weekend. I was told 2-3 weeks, Monday will be 5 weeks. My corals look like sh@t because they weren't supposed to be in the 33 gallon tank with mediocre lighting and filtration this long (I'm actually thankful most of them are still alive) I've lost a clownfish and a Chromis so far but otherwise my fish are stressed but alive in a bright blue water trough.

I don't mind a few days late but this is getting ridiculous. If I had known I was going to have a month and a half to wait for the dang thing... I could've done a few things rather different.

That sucks to hear man...

Seems like the tank builders are getting slower and slower in calgary. I want a nice tank so I expect some time for a clean, well built tank, but if a shop can't perform the work in the time that I would like, let me know your too busy to take on more work, and I will find a builder that can do it for me.

Exactly. I wasn't in a rush and if they had told me it would be a month-month and a half I would've been fine with that, but as it was I rushed to get my old tank out of the way anticipating only having 2 or 3 weeks to repaint the basement, and get all the preparation/stand building done for the new tank. So now it's all been done for 2 weeks except for some odds and ends finishing that I've been picking away at. Nevermind all the extra work keeping several systems up and running for this long

Frustrating

Also sorry to hear. Its too bad that there is really only two or three options for custom tanks in town right now. Im not bashing at all but BVG supplies the big boys with their tanks so I imagine that the small orders from the small shops get put on the back burner when things get busy. We have about a two week turn around with our tank guy. I think I would have lost patience by now, given the circumstances with your livestock atm. I hope you get things worked out.

Wow, just read your thread. Hopefully your new tank arrives soon. And a BIG public thank you for babysitting my corals last year! I think almost everything would have died otherwise. Let me know if I can help you out with anything.

Thanks for the kind words guys, to be fair to the guys at Golds once they send the order out they're as powerless as I am to do anything about it. That being said, I have a feeling that this week is the week! So, we'll see.

Thanks for the offer Kelly, I think moving anything now would be much worse. The fish in the water trough actually seem fairly content, and I've only lost frags of some of my corals and I made lots of frags just in case (not all frags created intentionally!!!)