Phil's 125g

I have to say I absolutely love the stand and canopy, beautiful job!

This looks great! I cannot wait to see this with water.
 Pam

Looks great.  Are you going to be able to get to the back bulkheads should you ever need too for emergency?  Or are they covered?  Thats an awsome looking build.  Good job.

Seems you have thought of everything .  When do you plan to get wet?

Finished up the plumbing.. and pulled out the garden hose!

UGH! one of my 1.5" bulkheads has a slow leak! $#!^... They're custom cut to be shorter and glued together. I gotta find that box with spare bulkheads and hope one was a 1.5" and then go raid my PVC leftovers for parts to rebuild the section. From what I can see, the leak is coming from the glued PCV into Bulkhead area.

BUT on the bright side, I'm glad I checked before just dumping in the rock, sand and salt!

This is going to be GREAT! I love all the hard you put into this beauty! It's going to be amazing!
 Pam

10/19/2011 update:  NO3 tested at 0... moving day was Monday... 55g is sitting empty except for sand and a few straggling snails.  As soon as I get the snails out, its time to clean out, will be siphoning out sand/water and refilling with vinegar water for the clean out!  125 got a few new toys!  RKE w/NET, 2 BRS reactors (1 Carbon, 1 GFO). Lighting is a 8 bulb 60in T5.. but there seems to be wiring issues, have 6 bulbs running (4 Geisman Actinic, 1 KZ purple and 1 10k) good for now.  All fish, corals doing well so far.  Will have to get pictures and a full tour up soon.  Next project is to get the water station (55g drum for RO + 20g SW mixing tank) all set up.  Got a new RO filter from BRS as well, it's hooked up temporarily and I've been filling 5g jugs individually.  Really see the need to get the rest done, as I'm just waiting for the day I forget to watch it and it overflows.

As far as the transfer went, fairly well.  I lacked some larger pieces, so I have almost the old rock wall look, but it's not too bad.  I transfered over 8 anemones, and now I have 10... lol. Environment change produced a couple of splits... and I think there may be more coming. The majority of my corals (softies and LPS) are sitting in a nice row in the front of the tank, I figured I'd leave them there for a little bit for the light acclimation as well as giving the nem's a week or so to find a home before I start placing.  One thing that really surprised me is how many empty snail shells are left in the old tank!

I don't know if it's just me, working in the tech field, I'm a little dissapointed in the RKE, I guess I expected more.  A better user friendly interface, easier programming etc.  but so far so good, I'm still learning it.  I have noticed when doing multiple programming changes, it will temporarily shut down for about 1-2 minutes... maybe it's saving/rebooting I don't know.  I really expected more for the $$$ amount the darn thing cost me.  Maybe someone has some good tips or is willing to help verify I have the optimal settings for it?