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While Rod was here making the cube I got him to check out a fracture in the front panel of the 2.7m tank.

It was a small chip inside the left corner at the bottom which over the years has started to move, its just on the edge of going into the tank and now about 30mm long.

Rod said it might not move anymore or it could go all the way to the top!!!

Fay cried Frog had another fit!!!!!!!!!!!!

After coming back down to earth, we have decided to replace the tank now while the cube is free a good place to put a lot of the stock.

So we are going to add some width and hieght while we have the chance :D

Tank will be 2.7x.600.600

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I will be really happy with 2.7x.600x.600

Thanks to Steve and Mark with help on upgrading plumbing the other thing we will do is paint the back up the tank this time, plus upgrade the sump. We will have lots of glass to play with to make a nice sump

any suggestions anyone

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jealous? f'n oath i am!

sticking with the italian theme then? :lol:

suggestions? biggest one i can think of is make sure the last section in your sump (after the baffles) is large enough to hold massive amounts of water for any water that back syphons. once you've made your sump etc, its hard to change it without alot of time, effort and money. closed loops? go HARD and make heaps. i highly recommend looking at oregonreef.com and seeing steve weasts closed loop design. very smart.

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Tanks made and sitting on the lounge floor, did the transfer of stock into the cube tank bit of a tight fit but all in apart from some packing rock and sand which is contained with power filter and heater.

Rounded up some mussels to lift the old tank onto the floor now we have two tanks on the lounge floor, Rod is going to try and cut the old tank down while it is made up :o tomorrow, so we can use it for a big sump 1700long. Frog has made a big box to put it in, and today he added more joists under the floor it now has 4 joists under the tank supported by block wall and metal beam. Tomorrow Frog has to do stuff with the cabinet to make it bigger and stronger.

I'm glad we didn't wait any longer to do this the crack in the old tank had just started to enter the inside of tank.

The whole thing has been a right pain in the a. don't want to ever go through this again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :

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