Alright where were we... oh yea, now that the stand and sump are cleaned up. It's time to reassemble the return and the overflow, and put the tank on the stand.
Yes, those are my grandparents on the mantle. They were born in '33 and '34. Grandpa is retired USAFR radio operator from the Korean War. That's when they met. He still operates a HAM radio and has antennas all over the yard. Oh and he can't here a gun shot going off in a tin can, morose code beeping in his ears for years. He's got a cochlear implant, but it only does so much. I call it his cyborg modification, not to him... he wouldn't understand. Grandma can sew anything by hand, trivet... got it, pot holder... got it, table cloth... got it, afgan, got one too. They live right up the road from me. My other grandparents are passed on. They lived right up the road too. I was lucky, I got to grow up with both sets of grandparents less than 10 minutes away. They were born in '23 and '25. Grandaddy was US Navy Armed Guard in WWII, Grandma was a White House intern... she had some awesome shorthand skills, lost art shorthand. They met in union station during WWII before Grandaddy shipped out to sea. Grandaddy passed in 2016 at the age of 92, I always said he was too mean to die. Grandma passed in 1998.
Back to the fish tank, the Jebao doser is unplugged and not hooked to the 14g. Alk is high still, so I'm letting it fall a bit and I'll figure out where to set it, probably on the hearth for now until I get the 35g cycled. Yes, those are Voss water bottles on the cabinet. The water is HORRIBLE. I never thought water could taste stale, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well, I bought it for the bottle anyway. Stick with Fiji water if you want to drink it. I'll be turning these into my dosing containers. They are 800ml each.
Hmm, so... looks like need a piece of 1" PVC to connect the drain to the sump. My aim is good, but even I splash every now and then...
Measure once, cut twice... or is that measure twice, cut thrice... Well looks like 7". Time to get the hacksaw.
A little bit of hacking, a little sawing, stick the pipe in the valve, pick up the tank and try to look thru the bottom, hope you don't crack the glass and vualá... Like prego, it's in there.
Stick the Curve 5 and the Cobalt 200W(overkill for 50g total water, but I already had it) heater in there and we're getting really close to having a complete system.
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