[pecan2phat]

Joe,

Is your clone the anemone in Greenwich's show tank in the back right, top corner?

Was admiring that hard to keep beauty

[tosiek]

Whats glass thickness? I wouldn't worry too much about the seams parting out, GC uses alot of silicone on their corners. + a brace would destroy the look of it. Just double check for bubbles in the seam. If you take a look at Elos rimless tanks they don;t have much of a corner bead at all, and for some reason are now earthquake proof to some extent 0.o.

Its a sweet looking tank, can;t wait to see how it turns out.

[cali_reef]

I'll be more concerned with cutting my arms on a GC rimless tank ..

[2Sunny]

Quote: Originally Posted by pecan2phat Joe, Is your clone the anemone in Greenwich's show tank in the back right, top corner? Was admiring that hard to keep beauty

Yeah that's one of them. I was so happy it only moved a few inches when we put it into Jason's reef before settling down. For some reason my primary anemone has been growing like crazy in the last 6 months. Not sure what I did differently. As is commonly said of the H. Magnifica if you get a good one they seem to be extremely hardy, and now it turns out they can be prolific as well. 3 clones in 3 months ; how crazy is that? I only hope its not an indication of stress. Although it very well could be. The odd aspect is that the clones seem to have even better color than the mother animal.

Joe

[2Sunny]

Quote: Originally Posted by tosiek Whats glass thickness? I wouldn't worry too much about the seams parting out, GC uses alot of silicone on their corners. + a brace would destroy the look of it. Just double check for bubbles in the seam. If you take a look at Elos rimless tanks they don;t have much of a corner bead at all, and for some reason are now earthquake proof to some extent 0.o.

The sides are 1/2 inch and the bottom is 3/4 inch plus there are 1/4 inch thick trim pieces glued around the bottom inner perimeter. Trust me when I say I've been going over this tank with a "fine toothed comb". I did find a small scratch in one of the side panes, but since I was not around when the movers delivered it I can not be certain they didn't cause that. Otherwise the silicone seams appear to be bubble free.

And did you see that earthquake video! Pretty scary stuff . .

Quote: Originally Posted by cali_reef I'll be more concerned with cutting my arms on a GC rimless tank ..

Funny thing is I was expecting to hire someone to grind the edges since I had read they came clean cut from GC, but they came polished and beveled. I don't know if GC is trying harder or if I was so nice on the phone to Beth and Tom that they gave me a little extra service. In any case I was pleasently surprised by the edges.

[2Sunny]

Final tear down today, big mess, sore back, but everybody seems o.k. in their temporary home downstairs. Also the PFO hood arrived. Oddly enough the PFO hoods now come with VHO plugs that only work with the PFO ballast even though I paid for the IceCap upgrade. I have the IceCap ballast, but presumably I now have to buy some kind of adapter. Wasn't the case with the last PFO hood I bought. Wouldn't really matter except that I like to use my Solar 1000 for dimming the last actinic lighting off and on. Oh well, its always somethin'


Joe

	VHO Very High Output Fluorescent Lighting - Fluorescent bulbs that run on special ballasts and have an output that is significantly higher than normal tubes. It is very possible to run an entire reef system on VHO lighting providing the proper number of bulbs and mixture of spectrums are chosen. For most hobbyists, these tubes are used in conjunction with Metal Halide lighting for simulating dawn and dusk. They often provide the "bluer" end of the light spectrum and thus a more aesthetically appealing display.

[2Sunny]

Lot's left to do. The light hangers are temporary as I am expecting steel bars eventually. The back will be all black once I get my sheet of acrylic. I'm working on hiding the Tunze. The overflow teeth need some widening, and most critically I'm looking for ideas to reinforce the seams. At the moment I am contemplating 1 inch by 1/2 inch glass glued to the outside corners, but I need to talk with some glass specialists, and I'll save that for another thread. Suffice to say all those who said don't do GlassCages can now officially say "I told you so". Anyways, its holding for now, and hopefully I have time to do a repair. Aside from that happy thought every thing else is fabulous. The tank is everything I dreamed of in terms of aesthetics and acessibility. The pictures do not do justice to the beauty, and I'm only sorry I waited so long to change from a tall acrylic to a short glass system. The aquarium really is neat to look at from above and from a seated position on the couch.
Joe

[chazertis]

Nice, i like the rockwork.

[2Sunny]

So my plan is to silicone 1 inch strips of glass to the outside corners tomorrow. I'm nervous about the plan since I've never done any glass work before, but we'll see. As part of the process I invested in some large wood clamps to stabilize the tank while the reinforcement dries.


Meanwhile, I'm running into a minor nuisance algae outbreak on the LR that was not already coralline encrusted, but nothing I can't get past with a few weeks time. I'm still blown away by the overall pleasure I get when looking at this tank. Once I get the black backing up I'll have to find a better camera to take some quality pictures.


Seems like a never ending process though. My "To do" list seems to stay the same length day after day . . . ah well . . .

[crox99]

It looks like it's coming along nicely.