chazde3
Active Member
Hey fellow reefers. I've been out of the hobby for a little less than a year due to some ups and many downs in my personal life. Well I'm jumping back in feet first. I found a killer deal from a reefer an hour and a half away on a 110g breakdown. I ended up picking up his entire setup minus lighting and skimmer for $375!! That included probably 200 lbs of rock that had been in the tank for 10 years.
This tank has been up for about 3 months now. The first couple posts are gonna be a little jumbled since I am pulling posts from another thread I had set up on another forum so I apologize for that.
This tank will be set up in one of the doorways into my living room as a peninsula tank. I'm currently refinishing the stand in an antique white to better fit the room. I also had the pulls the bottom trim off the tank because it was disintegrating. Luckily my lfs had a replacement piece and I am only waiting on a top trim piece. The tank also needs to be drilled since he was previously using an overflow box and im not a fan. Planning on doing dual 1.5in drains on one end of the tank and dual 3/4in returns on the other. The tank will also be getting the beastly led fixture I built a few years over it after I do some work on it. I will be cutting the heatsink in half and re-wiring the strings so that I half 2 smaller pendants instead of one large pendant.
Door way the tank is going
View from the hall to the front door. Tank will be flush with this wall
Sump that came with the tank, basically the size of a 20high
New 29g getting ready for baffles, much better.
Turned out pretty well for the first full sump I've ever built.
Stand after a coat of primer
Stand after a coat of heirloom white, store only had one can and that only covered part of the stand and it needs a second coat. Going to add seashell or starfish bronze knobs to the doors.
Put the stand in the doorway to see how it will fit up. Still need to find 2 more cans of the paint I'm using so I can finish painting it.
So I'm trying to figure out how I want to light this bad boy. I've got my old Diy 52 led fixture that I plan on reusing but it needs a modification. I'm torn whether I should cut it in half length wise to have 2 pendent style fixtures or width wise to have 2 strip style fixtures. Since this tank will have a tall column of rock down the middle with corals going up both rock faces in leaning towards making it into 2 strips. That would allow me to add another strip down the middle eventually as well. The fixture is roughly 8.5wx32l. Thoughts?
Here's the pictures of the light when I first built it fit reference.
And this is the tank I'm pulling inspiration from.
This tank has been up for about 3 months now. The first couple posts are gonna be a little jumbled since I am pulling posts from another thread I had set up on another forum so I apologize for that.
This tank will be set up in one of the doorways into my living room as a peninsula tank. I'm currently refinishing the stand in an antique white to better fit the room. I also had the pulls the bottom trim off the tank because it was disintegrating. Luckily my lfs had a replacement piece and I am only waiting on a top trim piece. The tank also needs to be drilled since he was previously using an overflow box and im not a fan. Planning on doing dual 1.5in drains on one end of the tank and dual 3/4in returns on the other. The tank will also be getting the beastly led fixture I built a few years over it after I do some work on it. I will be cutting the heatsink in half and re-wiring the strings so that I half 2 smaller pendants instead of one large pendant.
Door way the tank is going
View from the hall to the front door. Tank will be flush with this wall
Sump that came with the tank, basically the size of a 20high
New 29g getting ready for baffles, much better.
Turned out pretty well for the first full sump I've ever built.
Stand after a coat of primer
Stand after a coat of heirloom white, store only had one can and that only covered part of the stand and it needs a second coat. Going to add seashell or starfish bronze knobs to the doors.
Put the stand in the doorway to see how it will fit up. Still need to find 2 more cans of the paint I'm using so I can finish painting it.
So I'm trying to figure out how I want to light this bad boy. I've got my old Diy 52 led fixture that I plan on reusing but it needs a modification. I'm torn whether I should cut it in half length wise to have 2 pendent style fixtures or width wise to have 2 strip style fixtures. Since this tank will have a tall column of rock down the middle with corals going up both rock faces in leaning towards making it into 2 strips. That would allow me to add another strip down the middle eventually as well. The fixture is roughly 8.5wx32l. Thoughts?
Here's the pictures of the light when I first built it fit reference.
And this is the tank I'm pulling inspiration from.
