So been busy with other things, but ;

Glass !

Big thanks to wonderful neighbors Fred and his nephew Phil for helping get the glass tank out of the garage and into its new home.  No one lost fingers and hopefully no injuries.   Progress is going to be real slow now thanks to life getting in the way.  I’ve sketched out skimmer baskets in SketchUP and am going to get a friend with a CNC router to cut them out for me as soon as I can go get some appropriate dark plexi.

Skimmers on filter inlets

I had researched some filter plans and various pumps etc, but money will not be available for this project for a little while.  But at least garage space has been reclaimed and a little universal entropy has been fought off.