Let's see your bestest and ugliest ghetto mods or builds!

[TetoCCB]

14 gallon Coralife Biocube with “Joey” overflow and 20 gallon Rubbermaid sump with ice buckets to contain live rock, macro algae an mini skimmer...

DIY chiller - mini fridge, reinforced tubing with tubing coiled in cage made from Closet Maid shelving... Hummingbird controller...

 

[Biglurr54]

Ha I remember the days of the diy pvc overflow. Many a flooded dorm room for this guy due to those set ups.

I like the chiller idea. I wonder if that would keep up.

 

[Dsnakes]

I've got an extremely custom angled sump. Baffles were too big.

Super high technologies advanced electronics control panel board. I think I'll patent it.

 

[NY_Caveman]

Ha ha ha ha!

 

[Flippers4pups]

I guess with all the "likes" I got with the heater brackets, I should look into making these and selling them. Adjustable of course! Lol

 

[TetoCCB]

Ha I remember the days of the diy pvc overflow. Many a flooded dorm room for this guy due to those set ups.

I like the chiller idea. I wonder if that would keep up.

Yeah... I was hesitant to try it for that reason... the pvc “cup” on the left side of the sump will run dry if the water level drops to its rim...

The chiller works ok for my cube... it could use more volume, though... couldn’t find the perfect jug to fit to maximize the volume of water in the chiller...

 

[Larry L]

I was tired of looking at a bunch of dosing lines so I used some extra PVC to jury-rig this. Pretty ugly but it worked.

The best thing about this is hacking up the PVC tees to turn them into tank rim mounting brackets! Will have to remember that trick...

 

[ReedReefer]

I've got an extremely custom angled sump. Baffles were too big.

Super high technologies advanced electronics control panel board. I think I'll patent it.

I bought the same ones on ebay I had to cut down with table saw. Cut to short and now I siliconed acrylic to each side to compensate.

Repurposing breast feeding bottles into dosing containers for a reef tank definitely counts as ghetto [emoji23][emoji4] I love it! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Dsnakes]

I bought the same ones on ebay I had to cut down with table saw. Cut to short and now I siliconed acrylic to each side to compensate.

Yep they said for Aqueon tank and I couldn't find one locally. Too lazy to try and cut

 

[Velcro]

My sweet Dino busting UV rig from a while back.

 

[Flippers4pups]

My sweet Dino busting UV rig from a while back.

Bungee jumping UV's! That's a first! Lol

Love that tank! Very nice!

 

[Mini Coop]

That's Hot!

I was totally going to do this, but my 44 long isn't tall enough!!!

 

[MrineLfRlz]

Heater bracket:

I love this one!

 

[MrineLfRlz]

DIY chiller - mini fridge, reinforced tubing with tubing coiled in cage made from Closet Maid shelving... Hummingbird controller...

How does this actually perform?

 

[MrineLfRlz]

14 gallon Coralife Biocube with “Joey” overflow and 20 gallon Rubbermaid sump with ice buckets to contain live rock, macro algae an mini skimmer...

DIY chiller - mini fridge, reinforced tubing with tubing coiled in cage made from Closet Maid shelving... Hummingbird controller...

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Love this thread!

 

[Jerome Woodward]

My hack job on my bio cube. One of those...well I have all this stuff laying around..I should put it together.

 

[Reef-junky]

I guess with all the "likes" I got with the heater brackets, I should look into making these and selling them. Adjustable of course! Lol

What are those fittings? I've never seen those before.

 

[Reef-junky]

How does this actually perform?

From what I've read they don't keep up. If you have an old mini fridge that your going to toss I guess it might be worth a shot.

 

[cracker]

My refugium want's to grow Ha instead of chaeto. Hey it's a nutrient export so I don't care. However it's a pita to clean off the glass. So I hung a screen in there likw a scrubber& lined the inside walls & floor with white plastic cardboard. I learned the ha doesn't like to grow on the plastic & I used white to see if it might reflect some light back into the ref. I started this Dec 16th & the screen is already greening up. Any Op's or ideas to improve the design?