Hello everyone!
Through much trial and tribulation I am finally building/installing my dream tank. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I have been in the aquarium hobby from birth, helping with my Mother's angelfish until I got my own tank at 10 years old. Fast forward to college and I jump into the hobby with a little bitty 14 gallon biocube and join the local reefclub with the other addicts around 2006. Work my way up to a custom 185 that I had set up for a precious small amount of time before I ran off to play Army and had to sell it to move 'overseas'.
Fast forward another half a decade or so... I am home, with a wife and son on the way. Wife demanded I stop talking about getting a big tank and just do it... with the caveat that it is here prior to the baby so....
Tank: 72x36x30 CustomAquariums.com tank with 3 sides low-iron glass and peninsula style overflow to build it into the wall. It has their proprietary overflows, pictures to follow. Roughly 330 gallons give or take the glass.
I always loved the Marineland Deep 300's but I needed a different setup to be viewable from 2 sides. Custom Aquariums was fantastic to work with and get me what I need.
pic2 by Alex Stinson, on Flickr
It will be sitting on a square steel stand, and I will be using a mix of their sump system and my own.
Through much trial and tribulation I am finally building/installing my dream tank. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I have been in the aquarium hobby from birth, helping with my Mother's angelfish until I got my own tank at 10 years old. Fast forward to college and I jump into the hobby with a little bitty 14 gallon biocube and join the local reefclub with the other addicts around 2006. Work my way up to a custom 185 that I had set up for a precious small amount of time before I ran off to play Army and had to sell it to move 'overseas'.
Fast forward another half a decade or so... I am home, with a wife and son on the way. Wife demanded I stop talking about getting a big tank and just do it... with the caveat that it is here prior to the baby so....
Tank: 72x36x30 CustomAquariums.com tank with 3 sides low-iron glass and peninsula style overflow to build it into the wall. It has their proprietary overflows, pictures to follow. Roughly 330 gallons give or take the glass.
I always loved the Marineland Deep 300's but I needed a different setup to be viewable from 2 sides. Custom Aquariums was fantastic to work with and get me what I need.
pic2 by Alex Stinson, on Flickr
It will be sitting on a square steel stand, and I will be using a mix of their sump system and my own.