240g 8ft acrylic build

[Kodock]

(Almost finished)
Moving up to more room for the tangs. Mainly fish, nems, and softies, but goals of some more difficult corals. Tank, Sump, and Stand purchased used. Build canopy and upgraded stand a bit.

Finalizing the plumbing and will move everything over from the Waterbox. The canopy was NOT fun. I’m not a woodworking expert and the boards are not straight, but it will work. There are simpler ways, but maybe this will spark some ideas and lessons learned.

(You don’t need that many support cables even on 8’)

- 8’x2’x2’ 240g big fish custom acrylics
- Trigger Titanium 39 sump
-Reefbreeders Photon V2 pros (hard to find new being discontinued)

Custom control box (will add pics under new components) - *upgrading ceiling fan so disregard lol

 

[smitten with ocean life]

nice!!

 

[Kodock]

nice!!

Thank you!!

 

[Submerge]

Nice start. Fowlr?

 

[Netfish and Chill]

Much better than I could have done! Cant wait to see the progression and tank transfer!

 

[Kodock]

Nice start. Fowlr?

Mainly LPS and softies. I’d love to keep SPS, but haven’t successfully kept SPS in anything but smaller frag tanks with minimal fish.

 

[spaceman14]

Nice tank. I'm looking to change one of my 265gal Clarity Plus Acrylic tanks, over 25 years, and I see your tank has 4 covers on top. Mine is 6' and has just 2 covers, but yours in 8', is that how you designed it or did it come that way? thanks

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[Kodock]

Nice tank. I'm looking to change one of my 265gal Clarity Plus Acrylic tanks, over 25 years, and I see your tank has 4 covers on top. Mine is 6' and has just 2 covers, but yours in 8', is that how you designed it or did it come that way? thanks

Hey, it came that way. I had just wanted corner overflows because I have had issues with flow from center overflows, and this just happened to fit what I wanted.