Spent today installing my new moonlights. I only have 1 for now, and depending on how it looks with everything else in the tank, I can always opt for a 2nd one.
Closeup tank shot:
Full tank shot with moonlights:
Big day today on the tank – Finally completed all the plumbing last week, and wired up all the power boards into the stand, so there was only one thing left to do – “Fresh water test”.
Big moment of truth, would my plumbing and sump design work? Was I going to have an angry wife with 600+ liters of water all over the floor? Only one way to find out. 
Started by testing the workings of the sump, first the skimmer, then the baffles and the return pump plumping, and that there was enough pressure to make it to the top of the tank. Check!
Now lets add some more water and get this think really flowing. The picture shows a watering can, but this was just so I could make sure everything was working ok before I got the hose. Because filling up a 600L tank with an 8L watering can would be silly right? (shh – hopefully no one will notice).
Fingers crossed and wait……..
Success!!
Here is a shot with the tank full of fresh water, hard to tell that it is full but it is.
Finally a nice picture of the working sump, with pen marks in the return chamber for power out conditions, running max, minimums, etc.
Big day today – so as a reward, I went and bought myself a few new goodies online. Watch this space.
I have to thank a mate of mine ‘Matt’, who has kindly loaned me a return pump, lights and a vortech to get me going (I’m sure he was frustrated with how long this has taken).
Now I just have to get this water OUT of the tank now, in preperation for the good stuff.
Spent some time a few weekends ago making a few adjustments for an old Apple iMac G3 I had lying around.
I saw a few converted G3′s into fish tanks, and thought I could do something similar.
After a hour or so applying some customized ‘patches’ I have finished the final product, which I call the iCat.
I think ‘Melodie’ will get far more use out of this than I ever did. May have trouble loading software on it though (it is now missing a mouse *grin*).
I started working on a new character in blender tonight. I call him Ferroman (like Iron but softer)
I was having a little bit of trouble with my original empowerman I did earlier this week with the rigging and the way that the mesh was deforming while animating. I’ve decided to use this guy instead for the time being as I become more experienced. He is rigid so I can concentrate on the animation rather than the deforms.
Hopefully in the next few days I’ll post up a few animations of this guy.
