Brhino's 75g Supercommunity Aquarium

[jessfish]

Wow what an undertaking!
Is this room in ur basement where the 75g is cycling or do u have to move the tank when its ready?

can't wait to see finished product!

[Brhino]

this room's on the ground floor. I'll have to drain the new tank and move it upstairs after it has finished cycling.

[Ticklemekevin10]

WOW! i just spent my whole night reading this thread, well off and on playing and cooking with my daughter, but this was an awesome read! your a great writer and i loved all the details and learned a ton! ive been wanting to start my own journal of my new 90 gal i got off CL so im gonna use this as motivation. im sure it wont as good as this and ill probably be asking alot of questions in mine...

well done mate!
Cant wait to see the finished project!

[CassieLEO]

Thats amazing!!!! What a inspiration!! :D

[Cliff]

Is all of your driftwood water logged - staying on the bottom now ?

In one of your last pics, it looked like you were holding one down with a bag of bio-max

[boogernose]

This journal is fun, and it's good to see someone take their time and have a plan. I also enjoyed all the things in the background of the pics. IKEA furniture, kids, a rainstick, cats, darth vader... well the list goes on, doesn't it? The titanium spork is a nice touch.

[bcg150]

I am pretty sure I saw a 12 sided dice and an Elmo in there too. Brhino has everything.

[Brhino]

Is all of your driftwood water logged - staying on the bottom now ?

In one of your last pics, it looked like you were holding one down with a bag of bio-max

It's actually gravel in a media bag, but you're correct. It's still not sinking. Looks like I'm going to have to screw some slate to it... but then, I haven't found anybody selling slate in January yet. Maybe they sell slate in February.

[Cascade]

: He..he..he..welcome to the club

Spork......sounds like something Mork from Ork would have used.

Love it! I, too, have a Ti spork... of course for its super powers of reducing my overall backpack weight when on the trail Also because it is just really awesome.

It seems like there are a fair number of engineers that are into fish keeping. Perhaps it's because we can have our own little world to control, with the added bonus of getting inextricably involved in all the minute details of all of the gadgets....

Great journal Brhino!! Go Blue

[Brhino]

Since a few people mentioned the contents of the IKEA shelf and surroundings, I thought just for fun I'd post a full list:

1. A pitcher and drinking glass set painted with a sun/moon design. My wife picked this up in Mexico on our honeymoon.
2. A random collection of "natural" stuff of mine: a large geode I got in Alaska when my family vacationed there when I was in high school, a replica wolverine skull my wife got me, and a bottle of "pure glacier water" that I filled with actual runoff from a glacier in Alaska (It's very gray and silty). Also on this shelf but too small to see is a gold nugget I panned for in alaska... that's about the size of a pin head. Not a big pin head.
3. An abacus my dad got me from China, and an R2-D2 mug. No, I don't know why they're together.
4. Some minerals my wife has collected.
5. Two beer steins. Not sure where these came from.
6. Sports stuff! A football celebrating Michigan's 2007 Big Ten championship (and later National Championship), a Michigan Rubix Cube that I have solved one side of, a hockey puck celebrating the Red Wings' 2008 Stanley Cup, and a few other such things.
7. Jars of marbles. Mostly empty because the marbles are in the goldfish tank now, but there's still some up there.
8. An engagement picture of my wife and I, some candles, and a kitty cat piggy bank.
9. More marbles
10. Picture of my daughter, plus some toys she's allowed to play with sometimes but not all the time because they're annoying, such as an Elmo that sings happy birthday, and a plush Frankenstein Monster that sings the "Monster Mash" and my wife claims is always staring at her, which is why it's facing the back corner.
11. My coin collection, plus some coasters. The coasters are up there to prevent my daughter from destroying them.
12. A wedding picture of my wife and I
13. A decorative glass goldfish and an egg that I think might also be a music box.
14. A crystal sculpture of two horses I got my wife while we were dating, plus some things that need to be kept out of toddler reach unless supervised: markers, wii remotes, netflix DVDs.
15. Two more horse related sculptures. My wife likes horses.
16. Picture my wife and I at her prom, plus "Bride" and "Groom" baseball caps. Wait... those should be with the wedding picture, why are they with the prom picture?
17. Picture of my wife
18. Vase of plastic plants, turtle sculpture, dragon sculpture
19. Stone chess set I got in Mexico, plus random things that I don't know why they're up there, including the tripod for a Nerf N-Strike Vulcan machine gun.
20. Some of my wife's books, nonfiction.
21. Some of my wife's books, fiction.
22. Some of my wife's Texas-related stuff (she's from there). Texas license plate from an old car, high school yearbook, etc.
23. Some more of my wife's books, fiction.
24. Some of my books. Stuff about airplanes, Star Trek, Watchmen graphic novel, Lord of the Rings.
25. Some of my Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarine figures. I haven't actually been able to play Warhammer since college... none of my current local friends play.
26. My collection of Matryoshka (aka russian nesting) dolls.
27. My wife's Dungeons and Dragons stuff: the reference books, a dragon sculpture, some figures, and an assortment of different-sided dice.
28. Darth Vader. It's actually what's called a "photomosaic"... the image is composed of hundreds of tiny pictures in a grid, and each tiny picture is a frame from the original Star Wars trilogy.
29. a rain stick. Not sure were it came from, or even why it's stashed next to the fish tank... but it is.
30. The TV. Moderate sized and covered in toddler handprints.
31. The cable box. Used to have it on a shelf above but I think it was overheating in the confined space.
32. A Playstation 2. We have several video game systems but not the latest ones. The PS2 mostly functions as our DVD player.
33. Nintendo Wii, plus a selector box for the various systems
34. An X-Box (not 360). Got this for free from my cousin who won it in a raffle but already had one.
35. Closed cabinet, filled to the brim with my daughter's books. Rarely stays closed for some reason.
36. Closed drawer, contains DVDs, video games, controllers, etc.
37. Closed cabinet, filled with my daughter's toys. Also rarely stays closed.