Posting this up as he's a tad bit celebrating- but this is the tank we recently designed and built (me and an old buddy did the building.) The tank has a 4" water level which is the same height as each of the tier's on the wedding cake itself, as we didn't want to have the tank overwhelming the cake's importance. a 1/2" acrylic "X" sits in the middle of the tank and supports the cake itself. a shelf/lid is supported by tabs mounted on the X which provides a cap to the water area and also gives a place to set the Ecoxotic stunner strips we used to light the tank. Koralia 2 provided circulation with a 200 watt stealth heater providing heat (with the small water volume, I was very concerned of keeping the temp stable, as is the sun provided a bit of an overheating issue, but things seemed to work out just fine.) A lid of blue tinted acrylic sat on top of the X as a lid, with strips of white opaque surrounding the blue lid to act as both a skirt that covered the lights and lights-shelf, as well as providing a fence to contain the brown sugar that covered the top to simulate the sand of a beach (the wedding itself was held on the beach with the guests facing the ocean, bride and groom stood under a cloth draped "gazebo" thingy that had a king palm (archontophoenix cunningham) planted on either side.)
All the coral livestock were from our collections and selected for being short but that would glow real nice under the LEDs. Borrowed a few damsels and a clown from a LFS, only problem was the clown went missing- small possibility he jumped, but I think the trachy munched him.
Anyways- photos were just taken with my droid2 and haven't done any touch up, so the tank is a little hard to see into because of the LEDs. And because I'm such a pro photographer (and was short on sleep) I remembered to live my whiskey & coke in the frame :nerd:
Setting it up in the garage friday night
with flash (hence the color changing tablecloth :tongue: )
Tada!
Closer view
Eye-level to tank view
Pro photo's will be back in a couple/few months and I'll update thread with them, in the meantime, shoot Scubajay a PM with congrat's if you feel like :bigsmile:
All the coral livestock were from our collections and selected for being short but that would glow real nice under the LEDs. Borrowed a few damsels and a clown from a LFS, only problem was the clown went missing- small possibility he jumped, but I think the trachy munched him.
Anyways- photos were just taken with my droid2 and haven't done any touch up, so the tank is a little hard to see into because of the LEDs. And because I'm such a pro photographer (and was short on sleep) I remembered to live my whiskey & coke in the frame :nerd:
Setting it up in the garage friday night
with flash (hence the color changing tablecloth :tongue: )
Tada!
Closer view
Eye-level to tank view
Pro photo's will be back in a couple/few months and I'll update thread with them, in the meantime, shoot Scubajay a PM with congrat's if you feel like :bigsmile: