Wow... forgot I started this thread. Needless to say I never got around to setting this up. The wifey wanted some new furniture and I no longer had a decent place to set it up. Plans not completely scrapped yet though. Moving to a new house in a couple months here and it will be game on again for a nice home system behind beautiful glass.

I still got back into the game though... Got tired of not having a tank a couple months after moving here so I built myself a 12' x 30' fish room and set up 4 x 300g rubbermaids and a 150 at my shop over in the Live Oak area. I guess the whole system has been up for about 18 months now. Three of the stock tanks I have up on some cinder blocks... I've got one loaded down with a deep sand bed and a couple hundred pounds of liverock. I have a couple of noisy 5 gallon DIY surges on this tank for the fun of it, One stock tank is a high flow SPS grow out tank with a few Tunze PH's and 3 x 400w halides, One tank has all my chalices and acans and some misc LPS and clams laying about with a couple Tunze's and some 250w halides and one tank I just use as a maintenance tank that's on the ground that has a long list of hardware going on in it. Also have a 150 rubbermaid on a stand with a tangled mess of a refugium going on in it. Have a Hammerhead gold on the maintenance tank pushing the water up to the other 4. Really no fish to speak of just some critters. I'd like to add a smaller stock tank this year to run as a zoo/zoa garden... Give me something new to collect. I also have a 150g stock tank I use as an observation tank (QT) that is mostly empty these days and I have a 100g sumpfuge tied in. The system is pretty low maintenance which is good with my hectic work schedule... but I typically spend a Saturday a month doing a big clean and maintenance day. I have a dosser feeding my corals and an auto feeder dropping a little food for the critters and I do about a 100g water change every other week. It's pretty tight in my fish room and nothing pretty unless you're looking under the water but it's my coral garden and I'm pretty happy with it.