What have you done to your set up today?

Thanks... my next big project will be cutting holes in the floor for the plumbing without the wife figuring out whats going on until its too late!!

 

LOL.. now that' even something I couldn't get away with. Best of luck dienerman

 

Not today but a few days ago I got my shipment from Rapid LED and spent my entire day off dedicated to assembling 2 identical fixtures and a simple controller to create sunrise/sunset effect. Only took me 14 hours from the time the Fedex guy dropped them off for me to complete the entire setup. A little adjusting of the drivers and I am very pleased with how they turned out.

 

For me, my Family room on the ground level has carpeting- which made it real easy to not only cut holes in the floor to the basement under it, but also to simply fold back the carpet if the tank is ever gone, just like nothing happened.

Mine is along one wall by my stairs to the second floor.
I just pulled up the edge of the carpet along the wall from the tack strip,
Used a razor knife to cut perpendicular to the wall for about 4",
and just fold the flap of carpet back.

When not using the hole, the carpet just fold back down and covers the hole.
No one is going to fall thru a 2" hole. Done
Like it never happened.

Now if you have hardwood, laminate, or tile floor- well- not so easy to instantly make it look like nothing happened.

 

For me I have hard wood, so where the holes are I cut out a piece of trim and sheet rock and made the hole in the 2 x 4 in the wall. This way I did not have to drill in the hardwood floors and ruin them. I can easily patch the drywall and floor board if we break down the tank.

 

Started the project of scrubbing all my LR to get the GHA off by removing every piece and scrubbing in a tub of RO. This has proven to be a 10x bigger job then expected. Spent the better part of yesterday afternoon and I'm maybe a 1/4 way done. You can tell which pieces have been scrubbed. I forgot I had corraline on my LR :/

 

What do you have for nutrient removal?

 

be careful cbs, you run the risk of losing some beneficial bacteria by rinsing in RO only water - I'd use saltwater to rinse - just use some DT water and replace with fresh

 

Changed 1/2 the water in my tank (10 gallons ), but I also drained the tank and moved it 2.5 inches farther away from the cat launching pad, that should do it (knocks on wood). Cleaned tank, tested water.

 

Here we go again LOL! Don't get in trouble now. ReefBuilder has some great advice for you. That way you can patch the wall if you ever take it all down. No holes to be seen.