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04-06-2009, 05:51 AM
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Of course working in the col and REALLY late into the night we had to set up a coffe bar on the work bench in my garage.
This picture was taken around 2:00am  The it was back to work on the stand.   We decided to put a sheet of OSB on the top of the tank with some foam board on top of that.   Finally at 4:00am the stand was complete and it was time to load test!  We then moved the stand into the house and too a quick breather and got back to work draining the old tank.  I was really grasping at straws for anywhere we could keep the old water from the tank. so this process of removing everything took about 3 hours. All in all ive lost one fish to a rock falling in his hold tank. It was my recently purchased blue cheek trigger. 
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04-06-2009, 06:03 AM
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This is just a quick shot of inspecting the new tank.
 So by about 8:00am We had the old tank drained and moved out with the new tank sitting in its new home. We had to shim the tank stand as my floor as a slight slope to it, this was a frustrating hour of getting everything supported. I ended up using an extra panel of 8mm laminate i had kicking around.  I decided to turf all my old sand and go with one 40lbs bag of aragonite rinsed thoroughly. It was just enough to skim the bottom of the tank and i quite like it. by 9:00 we were setting up all the plumbing for the overflow. This was frustrating as apparantly home depot no longer sells pvc under 4" We had to make so with what i had lie around and the few connectors my LFS gave me the day before when picked up the tank. By 1:00pm we pretty much had the tank refilled and everything moved back into the tank.    The Rock-Work is just pretty puch thrown together as we were getting REALLY burned out at this point. Though i really do like the cave on the side. At 2:30 my brother in law and i passed out on the couch for a few hours and woke at 8:00pm tonight to a nice clear tank. all that was left to do was plug the skimmer in and go to sleep...    So there you have it everyone a 24hr tank build!!
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04-06-2009, 06:37 AM
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looks good, nice
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04-06-2009, 06:44 AM
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04-06-2009, 06:44 AM
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