A Sooners 100g build

ou12004 · Sep 26, 2014

I ordered a 100 gallon tank to replace my 29 gallon Walmart special and plan on slowly moving all of the corals over once the new 100g is up and running.

I ordered the tank, sump, skimmer and bio-reactor from Cad-Lights. (I would probably part everything out and go with someone else if I had to do it over again.) Tank quality is fine but customer service needs improvement.
I ordered the Reefbreeders LED (seems like a great light)
I also got the Jabeo RW-15

I wanted a certain look on the stand and canopy so I ended up building them myself. I tried for months to find someone to build it and finally gave up and built it with a friend. Sure hope the glue holds, some said I should have used screws or nails but whatever!!

http://i.imgur.com/1ALJtPVl.jpg

I am still waiting for the doors and plan on painting or staining the stand soon. Once I finish the stand I can set the tank up and get some water into it.

This has taken months to get going but I didn't know what I was doing and wanted it a certain way, hopefully some like what I came up with.

fishroomlady · Sep 26, 2014

looks really nice!!

Reeflogic · Sep 26, 2014

Nice looking set up, I hope the glue holds up too, lol! Oh and Hook'em Horns!!!

ou12004 · Oct 20, 2014

Stand is done! Time to get the plumbing figured out, to bad Cadlights forgot the directions and refuses to answer emails or their phone.

ou12004 · Oct 28, 2014

Tank is on the stand, plumbing is almost done.

bigsby · Oct 28, 2014

It's 4:25 pm central time. And OU still sucks.
Hook'em Horns!!!!

Let us Longhorns know if you need any help figuring that plumbing out.

ou12004 · Oct 28, 2014

bigsby said:
It's 4:25 pm central time. And OU still sucks.
Hook'em Horns!!!!

Let us Longhorns know if you need any help figuring that plumbing out.

My daughter asked me what a losing season was and I told her "we are Sooners we wouldn't know." Do you have some time to explain what it feels like to not make a bowl game or to not have any one drafted?
I do need help with the plumbing though, even from a longhorn.

ou12004 · Nov 23, 2014

I went with shopping with the wife and kids today and I will list the fish requested in order.
Can we get a shark? No their not reef safe
Can we get a sting ray? No their not reef safe
Can we get an eel? No, well maybe.
Can we get the pretty black and white pokadoted one he's cool (clown trigger)? No he's aggresive
Can we get the cool one with the horns (cow fish)? No, that will kill the whole tank, it has toxins
Fine what what about the blue one(red tail trigger) Maybe but it is $150 and I think it eats clams.
"Clams just sit there" we should get the other one (blue cheek trigger)

We can get the black and blue stripped one (chalk bass). "That's boring like the fish we already have."
How about the pretty blue one (Macneill's Assessor Basslet) "Boring!"

Please note this was a discussion between my 10 year old dauter and my wife.
My wife was the one asking questions!