My 180g Classroom Build

[Mr.Asbury]

So cool being close, my mom is a art teacher maybe I can convince her to get a frag tank in her room and the kids paint some corals lol

Haha doesn't hurt to try!

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Did a cardboard draft of the sump tonight, will put the glass baffles in tomorrow.

 

[najer]

Sounds great, following!

 

[Mr.Asbury]

RODI System all set up, I'm lucky that a maintenance guy at my school has a master plumber card - we had to do some work to get this thing hooked to my school's sinks. The people who installed the sinks soldered the adapters for our high pressure spigots onto the sink, so we had to tap into the water line under the sink prior to the sink hookup. This isn't the final location of the fancy water holding trash can, but I moved it here temporarily to show where everything is.

 

[siggy]

I'm lucky that a maintenance guy at my school has a master plumber card

It's always good to "Know A Guy" or Gal

 

[Dragon52]

I would go with Red sea or Salifert on the test kits, much better. You could also look at the Hanna test kits if the school kids are going to be helping, you have to mix chemicals together to get results.

 

[WV Reefer]

Very nice! Following along.

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Leak tested the 40g breeder sump today, and luckily found no leaks!

Edit: I didn't notice that you can see the water on the table in that picture until now. That's not from the tank, thats from my wife being a smart alec and spraying me with the water hose we were using to fill the tank ;Drowning

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Just got back in town from a 2-week conference. I'll hopefully be picking up my stand tonight, and will have steady update pictures from this point forward!

 

[WV Reefer]

Just got back in town from a 2-week conference. I'll hopefully be picking up my stand tonight, and will have steady update pictures from this point forward!

Yay for pics!!

 

[Mr.Asbury]

I picked up the stand and canopy today, and the tank has been ordered. The stand was 1/4 inch too long for the tailgate on my truck to close, so it was a nerve-wracking hour drive home with the tailgate down and a few straps holding the stand in.

Once I got it to school, there was another close fit. When the elevator door shut, there wasn't even enough room between the door and the stand for my fingers to fit in the gap. I'm glad it fit because we brought it in the basement doors and my room's on the third floor.

 

[Todvod]

Looking good!

 

[siggy]

Now there is our tax dollars being well spent! If I had this in class I would have paid better attention;Wideyed

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Now there is our tax dollars being well spent! If I had this in class I would have paid better attention;Wideyed

Haha I'm glad you approve! Thankfully, however, I wrote a grant to get the funds, so none of the school's money is going into the setup of the tank!

 

[Fifty8reef]

This is a very noble thing to do for the hobby and the local students. I'll be following. Hopefully more teachers will take note and follow your lead. You can't put a price on what these kids will learn

 

[Giddyup]

+1. The next generation

 

[Mr.Asbury]

Ordered all the rest of my supplies yesterday, and they should be arriving tomorrow. The tank should be in and ready to be picked up tonight, and I have ~80 gallons of water ready to go in it. All of my students show up tomorrow, so hopefully I can get the rock work set up tonight so they can at least see that in the water-less tank, rather than just a stand without a tank like I currently have set up.

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Looking great.

 

[Mr.Asbury]

My huge order from BRS came in today - 13 boxes of stuff to help make the first day with students just a little more eventful! Hopefully my tank is available to be picked up this evening so that we can get it filled over the weekend!

 

[najer]

Nice, exciting times.