Hello fellow Fishnatics,
After being a silent member of R2R its time to start posting myself.
so lets start my build tread!
a few hours of fondling with SketchUp and there you go a brief idea is born.
Dec 2020 - Its time to BUIDL! so my old Freshwater Puffertank was due for a change, after selling my waterpuppies the stand for the Reeftank had to be build.
starting with some 40mm (3mm wall) tube steel, cut it to size, get some nice 45' angels and lets weld her up.
quick mock up with the sump in it, and off to the powder coater it is.
i've choose for a all white setup to keep it clean indoors, so the frame is coated in RAL 9016
and one week later i received a message with a picture to come pick it up. So of course another land speed record has been set picking it up (Joking).
so now it was time to set up the tank, and scape it all!
first I started with putting a frosted film on the back of the glass to get the whole clean look.
added the overflow and started scaping, and here we go!
Could not have been happier!
Mixed up a whole lot of RO/DI water and filled her up to let the cycle start.
while waiting on the water I've started to dunk in two bags of Caribsea reef sand.
filled her up and lets start cycling!
Gotta do some work, so the story continues!
After being a silent member of R2R its time to start posting myself.
so lets start my build tread!
a few hours of fondling with SketchUp and there you go a brief idea is born.
Dec 2020 - Its time to BUIDL! so my old Freshwater Puffertank was due for a change, after selling my waterpuppies the stand for the Reeftank had to be build.
starting with some 40mm (3mm wall) tube steel, cut it to size, get some nice 45' angels and lets weld her up.
quick mock up with the sump in it, and off to the powder coater it is.
i've choose for a all white setup to keep it clean indoors, so the frame is coated in RAL 9016
and one week later i received a message with a picture to come pick it up. So of course another land speed record has been set picking it up (Joking).
so now it was time to set up the tank, and scape it all!
first I started with putting a frosted film on the back of the glass to get the whole clean look.
added the overflow and started scaping, and here we go!
Could not have been happier!
Mixed up a whole lot of RO/DI water and filled her up to let the cycle start.
while waiting on the water I've started to dunk in two bags of Caribsea reef sand.
filled her up and lets start cycling!
Gotta do some work, so the story continues!