155 Gallon Peninsula Starphire Rimless Build

acrorgv · Dec 5, 2015

I ordered my new tank this week and I wanted to start this thread to document my progress.
Dimensions are: 60"L x 30" W x 20"H
Starphire all 4 sides @ 3/4"
20" Synergy Reef Overflow
waiting on my leveling mounts to have my local shop build me another powder coated metal stand. I am still kicking the idea of having a canopy built as well, still thinking about it. lol
I will be going 1.5" @ .0781 (14 gauge)
picked up some goodies tonight at my favorite LFS ReefValley. I am going to try this product on this tank.

steelheader.262 · Dec 5, 2015

Exciting!!

Sabellafella · Dec 5, 2015

acrorgv said:
I ordered my new tank this week and I wanted to start this thread to document my progress.
Dimensions are: 60"L x 30" W x 20"H
Starphire all 4 sides @ 3/4"
20" Synergy Reef Overflow
waiting on my leveling mounts to have my local shop build me another powder coated metal stand. I am still kicking the idea of having a canopy built as well, still thinking about it. lol
I will be going 1.5" @ .0781 (14 gauge)
picked up some goodies tonight at my favorite LFS ReefValley. I am going to try this product on this tank.

Would love the see the progress with this salt following along brotha

acrorgv · Dec 6, 2015

I am starting a new thread on this build on my new account and canceling this account - alexXx.

acrorgv · Feb 22, 2016

Well I am back from a couple of months unable to access my account, Thanks David (Revhtree) for the help. Turns out I created another account alexXx which got banned because you can only have one account on R2R or so I was told, reason was to disassociate my username from a local reef club. Not a big deal now I can finally start posting again. Sorry for the inconvenience I might have caused.

acrorgv · Feb 23, 2016

December 9th 2015 stopped by the local shop to pick up some square tubing for the stand. I ended up going 1.25" x 1.25" x 1/8" @ 3 x 24' cut in half to fit in my truck.

acrorgv · Feb 23, 2016

December 30 2015 I got a call that my stand was finished and ready for pick up. I was very happy with the results. Stainless Steel 5/8 threaded bolt and nuts with Stainless Steel 2" plates welded together were used so I could level the stand. The craftmanship really came out on this one. I ordered the fancy leveling mounts from Zoro Tools on eBay but they came in wrong and late so I improvised. The entire stand was powder coated including the leveling mounts. from the pictures you can see how generous they were with the powder.

acrorgv · Feb 23, 2016

January 11 2016 I picked up a sheet of 3/4" Top Choice Maple Plywood from Lowes. I could have gone with less expensive plywood but most of the sheets were pretty warped.

acrorgv · Feb 23, 2016

December 18 2015 I received the 20" Synergy reef Overflow that I ordered on Black Friday.

revhtree · Feb 23, 2016

Progress!!!

acrorgv · Feb 24, 2016

December 17 2015 Indeed! I picked up more Aquaforest products for this build.

acrorgv · Feb 24, 2016

January 14 2016 I picked up a 3/4" STYROFOAM R5 Faced Polystyrene Foam Board from Lowes. I made a foam cutter to make this job a little easier on the cuts.