SaltwaterandLime's epic adhd build thread....

[SaltwaterandLime]

Send me a PM with your address if you want a sticker!!!

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Researching rock options for the 62gal lagoon tank. I want to go ahead and order whatever I'm going to use so I can start it cycling while I put the room and the stand together.

any advice?

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

I told my dad I was thinking about building myself a custom cabinet for the new fish tank and he showed up with an entire trailer full of power tools.

i now have a planer, a joiner, a thickness sander, a band saw, a scroll saw, and a bunch more. I can't wait to start building!!!

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

I randomly decided we needed to rearrange furniture today again. I'm so glad my teenagers haven't run away yet

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Started pulling up the carpet and installing the new flooring this weekend. I had lots of supervision....

 

[Mschmidt]

Good work there. I'm enjoying the build.

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Still a lot more work to do and a few things to move around, but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

The wall space between the two windows will be where the new tank goes.

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Got started building the stand this weekend

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Also went over to the old house this weekend and filled the tideline tank up with water and citric acid to run for a bit to clean it back up. Never got around to actually selling it so going ahead with getting it set up once the stand is done.

 

[Rmckoy]

I really enjoyed reading your build . And following along .

I can never imagine the pain and heartache you have been through

happy reefing .

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

My supervisors have been hard at work helping get the stand built.

No idea how we got so lucky to have it come out level the first try.

next step is plywood

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Austin took me to Lowe's today to get plywood for the stand. He was not happy with my decision to take pictures though....

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

One step closer to having a finished stand!!

 

[ff2807]

Once we got all the new furniture into the house, I had a brief moment of panic while I realized that it didn't match the house at all since it's a pretty yellow cream off-white and my walls are all bright white and gray. I tried to convince everyone that I now needed to re-paint the entire house (or paint the furniture) but I lost that battle and we are moving forward with everything staying the same color it is currently.


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Awesome just that way

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Got the stand and the tank set up in my bedroom this week. Ivarr of course still thinks it's all for him.

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

We went to @WWC in Orlando this weekend and picked up some awesome rock. It's tideline shapes and very light and looks great I think. Ivarr and I have been playing around with different scape options trying to decide what we like

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Something I wanted to share with yall, the bad along with the good. This is my softy tank that will soon be broken down completely and going away. Because of that the maintenance on this tank has been almost non-existent since covid hit the house and I started working on the new tank. I have no idea what kind of algae this is, but apparently this tank decided to get on board with the lime green theme!

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Did some serious clean up on the lime green softy tank this weekend. Looking much better....... now that I'm even closer to just breaking it down entirely...

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Picked this up today (well, ordered it at least)... I've been eyeing it for a while for the tideline tank and it went massively on sale so I grabbed it! Hoping it does well. It was one of the very few skimmers I could find that would fit in the back chamber of this tank.

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Slowly filling the tank up