Bobby's tank build.

[bobby]

Thanks for the welcome back, but the way things are going I think I will have more. This ICE testing is killing me. My teacher told me I shouldn't even be in it till I'm a 2nd year student. And when I'm going through it I'm lost, but I have no choice because without it I only have 11 credit hours and if I go under 12 I get kicked out.

[Piggy]

Nice addition. Cabinet looks great.

[Altohombre]

Bobby,

I kept looking for the cave and then all of a sudden the wrasse was gone. It was totally awesome. I can't wait to see it when you get coraline on that foam.

[fatman]

Great tile work with great colored grouting and edge trim on that cabinet. Those are, what about 2 inch tiles. Nice! Did you apply finish to the cabinet, or build and finish it? Either way it looks great. I really love solid oak cabinetry, floors and nearly all uses of oak. Is your Prism working out for you, lots of people downgrade the skimmers capacity all the way down to 30 gallon tanks. That is aluminum you used for your reflector I hope. Your definitely moving right into reefing.

[bobby]

Yes they are 2x2 tiles. That made it easy I had no cutting at all. I did both finish and build. I bought the oak at Menards and built everything. Since I modded it the prisim is working great IMHO, but the prisim is on my 30L. On this tank I'm running a CSS 125 but am becoming more and more unhappy with it. I can only get really wet skimate out of it. I have modded it and raised the pump and still really wet. Then again it might only be this way because I only had two small clowns and 1 hermit crab, so probably not enough of a bioload. I don't know for sure. No is steel. Its not really a reflector, but more of a housing. As soon as I can find a sheet of aluminum I will redo it, because the steel retains way too much heat.

[fatman]

Try your local newspaper printer for aluminum sheets. Printing sheets are aluminum now and at least here in Alaska you can buy them cheap, you just have to clean the photo ink off them. It is not real thick aluminum, but you can double it up or more if you want it more rigid. The last sheets I bought wer 40 cents each. Each sheet is the size of one page of news paper.

[bobby]

Thanks there is one about a half mile from here. I will stop in and ask.

[yote]

Glad to see you back Bobby.
However I just cant figure out why in the world your going into HVAC when your a damn fine cabinet builder.
Great looking wrasse to.

[bobby]

HAHA Thanks yote but I never think my own work is good enough. I can always find something wrong. I guess we are our worst critics.LOL

[fatman]

The bad thing about being real good about something is you always know every tiny mistake you make and want to always do it over cause you now know you can do it better. Then the hard part is bringing yourself to charge what you should instead of minimizing its worth. I always had to have someone else do my price quoting, estimating and even price markups when running a retail store. I always felt I was overcharging even when I was working my tail off and had no money. I find it much harder being self employed then having someone else pay me for doing what I like to do anyway. That is really is great cabinetry though! Do you also do old fashion joinery like dovetails, mitered half-laps, mortise and tendon joints, etc.?