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Way cool! It's gonna look great as usual.
Reduck happy you are following along. You were the inspiration for my IM40.
Excellent news! Let the plumbing begin . FYI, I'm moving to Peekskill in a month so I'm in the middle of a huge re-plumbing job myself.
Yep, the tank is making the trip with us! The task at hand is to redesign the system so that everything will be housed under the DT in the cabinet since it won't have a two story set up. I actually think it will be pretty straight forward (famous last words )What?!? I can't believe it. U had such a great set up. R u taking the tank to the new house
You get the award for the best secondary use of a sump...ever!Ok time for another update.
The Sump Cabinet
In reviewing my plans, space for a sump and cabinet was going to be very tight. After doing some research I settled on a Ruby Cube sump. It’s the maximum size sump I can fit into the allotted space. I picked this baby up on black Friday and have been storing it ever since.
This thing was well protected
Well I couldn’t leave it in storage the entire time so I put it to good use
To build the cabinet around the sump, I resorted to @rocketengineer’s design for stand building, using 1X4s.
Here are a few shots of the main structure. The skin of the cabinet will be held on with magnets. Because it is going into a corner I will be leaving the back and right side of the cabinet open. The top will match the other pieces and will be finished 1.5” Walnut.
Once finished I painted it white with Kilz premium waterproof paint
And a top down pic
You get the award for the best secondary use of a sump...ever!
In worse case we pray and turn water in to wine [emoji106]I really worked well. The red wine goes great with the ruby color of the sump. Now I hope it looks as good with water in it!
In worse case we pray and turn water in to wine [emoji106]
The avatar is one of my favourite fish.Great point! Janci - I love your avatar. Is that from your current tank?
ding through your build thread now.The avatar is one of my favourite fish.
I currently do not have it in the tank but hope throat one day I might.
Still... too many wrasse for the moment which are another of favourites.
All the right reasons to go with GHL.Update - Controller
A few pics to lead off the day. Look what arrived recently…
Just like Choss…
P4 Mega Set!
Man there are a lot of goodies…
And here is the brain and heart of the Choss system…
Man this thing is serious looking. And not small either…
Ok so by now you know that I am going with the GHL Profilux as the brains of my system. I did a ton of research as this is the first controller I’ve ever gone with so I wanted to be certain. So why GHL you ask?
· Build quality & reliability – There were a ton of threads on the merits of both controllers. But in the end, the GHL guys were the happiest of the bunch. And I could not find a single “GHL failure” thread or post. I travel a lot and this was critical to me.
· Programming – I’ve read mostly how easy the GHL is to program. We shall see if this holds up!
· Customer service – this was actually the deciding factor. When I started my research, I sent emails in to both companies. I called Neptune several times to no avail. I kept getting caught in a circular conversation with a pretty unfriendly type on the other end, who just couldn’t connect me with the service rep who had reached out to me. With GHL different story. Vinny contacted me and the rest was history. Super friendly, great advice, and quick turnarounds on questions asked. I will be controlling devices on two levels in my house and he was able to help me figure out cables that I would need, etc. I believe these guys will be there if I have any issues. Not feeling that way about the Apex support. In any case, I’m sure they are both great products but this was the tie breaker for me.
· Cost – Apex was definitely cheaper for what I wanted to do. But in the end, I have already invested heavily in the tank, furniture build, equipment, and not to mention the future investment in corals. I made a commitment to excellence in build and equipment selected so $100 or so more wasn’t an issue for me.
Can't wait to program this baby.