Japanese Pagoda Tank Build

lostmyz · Jul 9, 2013

I figured I should probably start a thread on this since its been a work in progress that is progressing nicely. Ryan (aka Chandler) and I have been working on this build for about a month now on the weekends. The idea is a Japanese Pagoda stand and canopy with a overall ZEN-like feeling with the tank and all the equipment. Here are a few pictures of what we have done so far. Currently we are working on the stand trying to make sure everything fits in correctly and we have enough room to get everything in the stand that we want. Also we are taking our time to make sure that we design the plumbing correctly to how we want it so that later we won't want to rip it out and redo it because we weren't able to acces something or you know the usual "I should have done this instead." Alright so on with the pictures!

Here is the basic skeleton of the stand

Some equipment with the Stand Skeleton

Here is the stand sheeted with Mahogany. We still need to router out the door hole and everything. But GOD I love the color of the Mahogany!

So other than that here is some info on my equipment
Lights: AI Nano with AI Director (soon)
Skimmer: Bubble Magus NAC-60 clone (ebay)
Sump/Refugium: 10 gal baffled it myself (My first attempt at baffling... silicone sucks to use)
Return: Quiet One 1200 (i believe either way i know my return is rated for 350gph)
ATO: Tunze Nano ATO with 4 gal custom made reservoir
UV Sterilizer/Heater
Eventually I will put an insump Media Reactor maybe one of the new Aquamax Mini's (those things are pretty sweet!)
Rockwork will consist of a lot of tonga with some fiji here and there

I think that covers most of it. I will post updates weekly as the build progresses.

Thanks for looking guys!