Guitar Amp Fish Tank

[lanaandjim]

I had an old Marshall guitar amp that I wasn't using and a bunch of 1/4" acrylic left salvaged from a business moving. So I decided it would be better utilized as a nano saltwater fish tank. I also just wanted to see if I could build it. This is how I built it. First I gutted the amp out. I removed the electronics and cut off just the face plate to reattach. Then I removed the speaker grill. I cut a piece of 1/4" acrylic to fit where the grill went. I used a router to make a hole to display the tank. I painted it black and glued the Marshall logo to it. Next I built a 1.9 gallon tank out of 1/4" acrylic to fit perfectly inside the amp. The lighting is 7 each 3 watt LED's. They are wired to the on/off switch on the front of the amp. The volume knob controls the dimmer. The filtration is a Biocube protein skimmer and an HOB filter for a 10 gallon. It has about 2 pounds of live rock. It took about 4 hours a day for week to build. Now I am trying to decide what to put in while the tank goes through it's cycle.

Thank you to Daniel and Greg for donating the LED's and HOB filter to the project.

 

[Dowtish]

That is awesome!

 

[nova65ss]

Very cool!

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[calvo15290]

Nice!!!


Andrew calvo

 

[JasonM38401]

Looks cool!!!


110 tall mixed reef

 

[dwilliams87]

Does it go to 11? It turned out great man.

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[ritter6788]

That's great!

 

[Salty-Noob]

That is so cool I would go ape for something like this...good job

 

[jmann124]

Really nice.

 

[TonsOfun]

Does it go to 11? It turned out great man.

Nice! This is Spinal Tap. Surprised no one has given you kudos for the clever reference....

 

[Nicks0912]

Awesome idea!!

 

[dwilliams87]

Does it go to 11? It turned out great man.

Nice! This is Spinal Tap. Surprised no one has given you kudos for the clever reference....

Thanks man, what a great movie.

 

[greg0385]

Your welcome for the leds, that looks really good. I cant wait to see it in person in a couple of weeks

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[dwilliams87]

Your welcome for the leds, that looks really good. I cant wait to see it in person in a couple of weeks

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+1, everybody can see it when we have the meeting and do the tank tours!

 

[orthokardia]

Love the creativity and clean look


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[TrialandError]

That is awesome


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[Dana]

Can you make me a line 6 tank? Haha
Very cool man

 

[lanaandjim]

I would love to make a tank out of a full stack. I would put the sump in the bottom speakerand the tank in the top speaker. Then house the electronics for the lights in the head.

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[lanaandjim]

Thank you to everyone for all the nice comments.

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[11f150]

Very nice!!