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10-02-2005, 08:43 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: TX
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all bets off she soo handicapped. yard, sending in a ringer
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10-02-2005, 08:48 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
Posts: 18,604
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10-02-2005, 09:05 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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hehe thought that work bench looked familar..good luck Genie!
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10-02-2005, 09:05 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Livingston Parish, Denham Springs, Louisiana
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Thats why I said we where in trouble I knew who She was. LOL Thats OK
Thats OK if He helps
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10-02-2005, 09:15 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cebu
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Your a rat Casey, and besides, he's just my "consultant".
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10-02-2005, 09:19 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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10-02-2005, 09:22 PM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by pinayreefer
I read a thread on the DIY forum about cutting glass with a dremel tool. My husband has one, so I bought the recommended diamond bits and got set to start cutting.
Everything went well until I actually touched the bit to the glass. I guess I should have read a little more of the thread. I have since learned about tempered glass. See, I'm learning so much already!
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At least it was a little tank and not a large *expensive* one!!
Good luck with the next one...
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10-02-2005, 09:29 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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heheh Genie! new roger was tooooo busy reading all those article i sent him anyway 
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10-02-2005, 09:52 PM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Rog clean out your PM box its full.
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10-02-2005, 09:54 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: TX
Posts: 391
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so the name on this one is yardboy's nano?
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10-02-2005, 10:10 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cebu
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The capt. is trying to get everything shipshape!
No, I Genie, am doing this tank, despite my husband and his friend's potential help.
Okay, to put you on notice. I drilled a hole in the bottom (See what kind of help I get, he told me it was all drillable but he'd only drilled the bottom glass before) put a bulkhead, then bent a piece of acrylic into an L to make an overflow. Rather than cut the top, I glued two pieces of eggcrate as a guard.
Now I'm glueing sliced baserock to the back of the tank. (Yes, Rogerio did slice the rock, that tilecutter Scared me.) Once the rock is glued in, we'll add some pieces of liverock, some livesand and some water from the big tank, vacuumed out while we're scraping corraline, to seed the tank, and let it cycle. Rogerio claims that feeding it calcium gluconate will speed up the growth of corraline on the bare baserock. We'll see about all that jive.
I also spraypainted the back of the tank black, to hide the gaps between the rock. I may add "mortar" in the gaps between the rocks to make it look continuous, but only a little, don't want the pH to get out of control.
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10-02-2005, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Montana
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Looks great so far! 
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10-03-2005, 12:15 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Good luck Genie!
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10-03-2005, 12:22 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: TX
Posts: 391
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very nice start Genie
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10-03-2005, 12:24 AM
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The Dude Abides
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: RI
Posts: 1,129
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Wow, that's great!
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aragonite sand
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base rock
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colt coral
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dremel tool
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fairy wrasse
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fairy wrasses
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feather duster
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fiji leather
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flow box
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flowerpot coral
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frag tank
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leather frag
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metal halide light
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micron filter bag
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mysis shrimp
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pistol shrimp
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pot coral
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refugium light
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rock rubble
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sarcophyton elegans
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sps corals
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star polyp
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star polyps
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tiger pistol
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tiger pistol shrimp
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yellow fiji
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yellow fiji leather
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