Hello from the great white north

Okay it's not so white but it's pretty great, except for the rain and the cold and the traffic sucks and rude people make me angry .... but other than that it's great.

I'm Doug, I live outside Vancouver BC and am in the process of setting up my tank. I just did a water test on it tonight and everything held together, the only problem is that the tank is about 1/4" out of level so I've drained it and will be levelling it out tomorrow.

My tank is a 60 gallon cube, 24x24x24 with a home made 4.5 gallon external overflow on the back and a 27 gallon glass sump/refugium. I've got 250watt HQI plus some HO T5's for light on the tank, the refugium will have actinic and 4100k light on it on an alternate cycle to the tank. When the light is on in the refugium the skimmer will be on but it will be off during the day.

My stand is a homemade Red Oak, I've sealed the inside (hopefully it's sealed) so with a bit of luck it should last a good long time.

Doug

 

hello from newcastle ,australia , welcome to 3reef

 

Hello And Welcome To 3reef! Hope You Have Good Luck With Your Tank!

 

Rude people it seems start at about Northern Va and just gets worse as you head north LOL Man its been civility culture shock for me a old slow county southern boy living in Ct.. Rude is putting it mildly..LOL Did I also mention its cold and the weather sucks LOL Oh yes and the traffic .

 

Yeah another canuck.... Welcome to 3reef!

Marc.

 

Welcome to 3reef!!

 

Welcome to 3reef !

 

Sounds like a cool tank Doug. Upload some pics!