well thanks all for the help! I'll post pics once the dust settles!

Sadly, no. I did not build them myself...although I had plans in hand to get my dad to bust out the saw. I did a ton of research and wound up finding a pre-made solid wood cabinet that would fit the dimensions I needed and wasn't a gazillion dollars. It's actually a bank of 3 cabinets, the end two w...

Should I assume that you speak from experience "Other Jeff"? That was pretty much my concern, that any water spilled would leech between the wood and lexan by suction and never get a chance to dry out...or at least not in any timely fashion. So other than polyurethane, do you folks set you...

Just curious...I'm about to set my tank(s) up on a new cabinet bank and was wondering what folks do to help protect the wood. This is a first for me--REAL WOOD cabinets as opposed to the traditional fiberboard/veneer junk tanks usually sit on. I was going to get 1/4" sheets of lexan cut to the ...

Wow. Lookie at what I started.
I get the message. Cease and Desist on the rinsing! Something tells me the more I was stirring it up in the rinsing process the more silt it was creating. I imagine eventually I would have come to the C&D conclusion....

eventually....

JMLenke wrote:actually it is standing on your head while chanting Nietzsche in Crimean Gothic.

OMG. Who knew this aquatic plant thing was going to be so difficult!

Thanks for the help folks. So I guess I shouldn't be worried at the dirty dirt.

Ok, so it's not really *dirt*, but catchy subject line, eh? I picked up a bag of SMS at the last meeting, and am just getting around to thinking about maybe doing something with it. So I busted out a bucket and poured some in to start the rinsing process. I think I need to go to substrate washing sc...

I see how it is around here. For the record, I find the padded walls to have much more benefit than the tight coats. Amateurs. You guys don't know ANYTHING!

Just for that, no fishies for you! Mr. Sarcastic is now on the blacklist.

So I have a pack of these guys (Jordanella floridae "American Flag Fish") I picked up when I had a wicked hair algae issue but now they're just schooling around getting fat on regular foods. Was wondering if anyone would be interested in a "rental program", you borrow the cleanin...