Slow and Steady

Well sometimes I wish I could be more like the hare instead of the tortoise, but then I remind myself that slow and steady wins the race! Progress on my ocean is a bit slow lately. Ed became unemployed in May, on his birthday no less, so my project instead came to a bit of a halt. This summer has also been pretty busy for us. We enjoyed our first Twins game together at Target Field with Mike and Amy, Ed finished his auqaponics tanks (just need fish), went camping with Mike, Andy and Heather at Cascade River State Park and Pepper our newest addition to the family had a blast! On our way north the Prius hit 100,000 miles and 3 years of age and on our hike Eddie (the collie) tried to take Mike into the river with him to cool off! But as fall is coming and my 30th brithday is fast approaching I decided it was time to get back to building my reef tank.

This past weekend I got the fish wall painted, Ed cut the holes for the plumbing to run through and I started getting the sump ready to go. After removing some of the glass "wings" (the previous owner placed 8 peices of glass along various parts of the sides of the tanks to hold up egg crate and they looked kinda like wings) and only having one small cut from using the box knife, I started to layout the sections of the sump before cutting the acrylic baffles. After placing the skimmer (yes I know the cup is missing in the picture) and return pump in the sump I realized its way to narrow, but being the Davis family member I am it will be used anyways. Needless to say the baffles didn't get cut and placed this weekend and again another delimma has raised it's ugly head. On the bright side, I am just another small step closer to having running water!

The new goal/deadline is to have the baffles placed this coming weekend, get the plumbing installed before the birthday, rock and sand sometime this fall and running water by Christmas at the latest.