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That is a sleek looking sump. Get it running so it can get dirty!

My biggest obstacle to getting pieces colored up so far has been that the tank refuses to keep any nutrients in the water. Since adding fish to this tank, the phosphates have actually *decreased* from .12 to .08, and the nitrates keep falling to undetectable within days of dosing them. I've been...

I broke out a different lens tonight to try to get some better pictures of the fish. Next time I'll clean the glass and break out my external flash and take some *really* good pictures, but these will do for now: Juvenile Scribbled Angelfish: Female Spotted Boxfish: Naso Tang:

Updates! The first round of fish are in the lagoon. I lost the larger Scribbled Angel and Moorish Idol in quarantine after they both refused to eat. The male boxfish is still in quarantine and is *finally* showing interest in food, so I hope to get him eating soon. For now, these are the three...

What corals are you planning on for this tank? I always love your builds; you keep everything so clean and organized.

I ordered some filters online for my old Canon to see if I could get some of the colors closer to what they look like in person, so I figured I would share a few of the wild acros now that they're starting to color up and do weird things. I still have more work to do to get the color perfect...

That stand came together brilliantly; I can't wait to see it with the tank on top!

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With the way that you collect, you'll run out of room *quickly*! Building the tank itself is actually pretty easy.

I built it from some 20 and 40 gallons that I stripped. The next display tank that I build, I'm going to order some low iron glass and get the edges ground all fancy. For now, this will do. :)

I finally got around to building my ATO bracket yesterday. For the low low cost of some scrap acrylic and about an hour, it turned out pretty well. It's slides over the last baffle in my sump so that the floats sit in the return section. I might move the low-water bracket down a little to cut...

Yesterday, I installed some arcade buttons and wired them up to an Apex Break Out Box from @jayjigga . If I press the red button, my skimmer and all of my pumps turn off for ten minutes. If I press the black button, the delay ends and everything turns back on right away. I tested my programming...

Today I finally got some projects done that I've been waiting on parts for. I needed to modify my old Precision Marine calcium reactor to fit under my stand. The base plate was too wide with the pump and reactor body sitting side my side, so I had to modify and rebuild it. Here's the reactor...

Did you order them all from one place, or have you been busy running around and collecting them from different sources?

Just in case it was unclear, I've been known to make impulse buys. I got a small Moorish Idol at a local shop today, and I swear it's the last fish that's going in this QT for this batch. For those keeping track, that's a pair of boxfish, a pair of angels, a naso and an idol all in one 20 long...

Oh heck yeah; I love to see more custom/home built rimless tanks! This looks excellent. :)

And as promised, here are some pictures of the acros I added last night. Some are happier than others right now, but I already managed to pull great polyp extension on everything after I cut and glued it last night. Now everything can recover, settle in, and color up and grow. I'm very excited...

So today while I was out picking up another colony for my holding tank, I had the opportunity to make a stupid purchase. I love making stupid purchases, so I added these two fish to the quarantine tank with the pair of boxfish and the naso tang: Pair of juvenile Scribbled Angels: The larger...

I just got done gluing in eight new frags from some of my colonies that I've been collecting for the past few weeks. I'll take some pictures of them tomorrow once they've had some time to settle in from banging around in the bucket while I dipped and rinsed them. Here's what they looked like...