One AWESOME BUILD!!!

[txreefer]

Hello everyone this is my first post on here. I have been a member for a long time and lurked around. I never have done a build long so this will be first time thing for me I hope you all enjoy the ride.
A little history about me. I have been in the for 15 years. Most of those years I spent in the aquarium industry combining my passion for aquariums with my job. I was a general manager of Alfa for a number of years and worked for a large company after that designing and installing a lot of wicked cool aquariums. I personally haven't owned a tank in many years. I left the aquarium industry about 3 years ago and the bug has finally bit me again to build a tank. With everything I have experienced and seen of the years. I have a lot of equipment on order almost everything In this build custom.

If you read all that awesome if not well this is where the good part is. So what is the tank and what equipment am I using? The tank is a custom 36x24x21 rimless made by planet, with external overflow by trigger systems. The ret of the parts and equipment will be trickeling in over the next month or so. This is a real time build I don't have everything yet so updates may be slow at times.

So for now here are some pics of the tank.

 

[txreefer]

Almost forgot the pics!!!

 

[txreefer]

Here is a little peak a what's to come

 

[txreefer]

Started on my stand. It's coming along nicely. Got a lot more to do but thought I would share what I have got done so far.

 

[Ridem32]

Looks very nice [emoji106]

 

[Broadfield]

With a thread title like that, this better be epic:)

 

[txreefer]

I Plan on it being epic. I've been planning this tank for about a year. Here's the list of equipment that will be used:
- Custom 36x24x21 planet aquarium
- custom stand made by me :)
- custom sump,skimmer,media reactors and ato by bashsea.
- complete 2016 Neptune apex with all the goodies
- AI HYDRA 26 hd lights
- sicce pumps for skimmer return and media reactors.
That's the bulk of the equipment I'm sure there is plenty I'm missing and there will be many custom touches to everything. :)

 

[Daniel@R2R]

This looks GREAT! Following!

 

[txreefer]

Just a little update got the stand painted still have to add the finishing touches. Also still need to build and pain the side cabinets for the equipment hopefully I can't get that done this weekend. Sorry for all the iPhone pics I'll get out the real camera eventually. Lol

 

[Nicolas_Brown]

Nice looking set up can't wait to see it blossom

 

[txreefer]

Nice looking set up can't wait to see it blossom

Thanks I can't wait either. I know patience is key and watching the details takes time.

 

[revhtree]

Looking good!

 

[txreefer]

got an update on my filtration. Steve over at bashsea sent my this pic of my skimmer. Everything should be shipping out to me this week i cant wait to get my hands on this stuff...

 

[Broadfield]

Man, that would go sooooo well with my orange theme! I wonder what the footprint is on that!?!

 

[txreefer]

Yes it would i also have a orange and grey theme going to match the apex. I just went all out and had all the filtration made out of orange and grey. Its been about 2 months of waiting to get all this built. The foot print on that skimmer is 7.5 x 13.

 

[txreefer]

A little update got a picture from Steve over at bashsea. My media reactors. :)

 

[revsgirl]

Very nice!

 

[Nicolas_Brown]

Very nice! Love the details

 

[txreefer]

Very nice!

Thank you!

Very nice! Love the details

Thank you. This tank was designed around details. It may not be the largest tank but I hope for it to be a very nice tank.

 

[Mpierce]

Tagging along, I like the 36x24 footprint.