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Old 10-15-2008, 03:32 AM
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Interesting... Curious to see how you plan to stay in your budget. lol
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Old 10-15-2008, 04:11 AM
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Wow sounds like the most complicated 5.5 I've every seen
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Old 10-15-2008, 04:24 AM
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Wow sounds like the most complicated 5.5 I've every seen
I'll send you some links to some 2.5's that'll blow your mind
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Old 10-15-2008, 11:04 PM
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Ok, so here's the obligatory empty shot... Sorry, I tried to get pepper into the tank... But we realized she couldn't even wear it as a hat Thus I bribed her with a milkbone to pose...

Entry fee paypal'd to JD at some ungodly hour of the morning...



Spent first $ on the project today... On a nice new 5.5g AGA to save me cleaning an old one up; Then I went down to Elite, begged pleaded and groveled with Colby - He'll be "rebuilding" the AGA in 1/4" glass (see first picture) and adding a eurobrace (I spent the night with nightmares about slosh - 2.5g test tank didn't reassure me - thus the last minute addition), we agreed to 60$, ETA 10 days.

So 190$ left... Luckily, this is where I budgeted to be at this point...
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Old 10-16-2008, 12:14 AM
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I'll send you some links to some 2.5's that'll blow your mind
id like to see some of these!
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Old 10-16-2008, 12:22 AM
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I'll see what I can do Most are bookmared on the old server; that I can't seem to break into for the life of me (forgot the damn password).
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Old 10-16-2008, 12:32 AM
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id like to see some of these!
Same here
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Old 10-16-2008, 01:29 AM
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Comments needed...

JDigital's Suggesting I'm absolutely not following the rules of the contest, as "the AGA 5.5 Has to be used".

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GENERAL GUIDELINES:
-You can mod all you want as long as you start with a STOCK tank and deduct costs from your budget.
His argument is I'm breaking the rules by having the tank custom built/rebuilt with 5mm glass + 3" overflow extension. I've assumed that by keeping the overall outside dimensions (except for the 3" overflow addition), I was following within the rules. Including deducting all costs to do this.

Now perhaps my original question to JDigital was pushing a bit much. (I did ask if I could reuse the stock aga 5.5 as my sump) In retrospect, I'll stick to my rubbermaid sump...

I can see JD's point, so where do we go from here?

I've started with a AGA 5.5 STOCK tank... Complete with hood & AGA packaging. Do y'all want to see a dissasembly of the 5.5, and a pane by pane replacment? This would fall within the rules as I read them - or can I just skip the dissasembly of a 5.5?

What do you guys think/want?
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i think the fairest thing to do would be to disasemble the stock tank and then add on
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Interesting... Curious to see how you plan to stay in your budget. lol
Must be thinking ahead for upgrades after the contest.
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