Salt Stories of Dev's Water Box 50.3

[mahindra.dev]

Aquascape!!! Most exciting part.. Tried several thing. But here is it...

TRY 1

 

[mahindra.dev]

TRY 2.
What I wanted was overhangs!!!

 

[mahindra.dev]

Like Dory said...
Just keep trying
Just keep trying
Just keep trying

so I went on to do this for multiple tries...

 

[mahindra.dev]

TRY 3. More complicated as it needed lot of support. Now my worry was how to ensure this overhang stayed without support!!

Acrylic rods?? Cement?? Epoxy?? Lot Of thought went into this...

 

[mahindra.dev]

In the mean time I was able to add chiller as it arrived during lockdown but I wasn’t able to pick it up... this was around Mid May- End of May timeframe. Untill then it was all about scaping... the unfortunate thing was, my tank was also stuck in the warehouse and not at my home. So I’ve been making these scape tryouts without the tank...

 

[mahindra.dev]

So here is Chiller initially with a little bit of tidying the space.... This is HAILEA 150A.

The stand was planned to have the chiller in the middle... I have to say that’s a MISTAKE.. Never do this ‍

 

[mahindra.dev]

oh yeah one more thing got done in the same time frame... RO water station with upgrades to the RO unit to have 150GPD. My booster pump is kicking in 95PSI. So water making is a breeze.
I’ll add more updates on this as well...

 

[mahindra.dev]

So precisely after 20 months of waiting!!! TANK is finally out of the BOX. Here is how it sits!! Just showing comparison of CAD and actual image

 

[mahindra.dev]

Setting up all my equipment slowly.... And next is scaping in tank

 

[mahindra.dev]

Here is some before and after pics of the aquascape and VIDEO of the aquascape!! I used epoxy to hold the over hangs!! The right side was challenging to hold due to the weigth of the overhang, so I had to use baserock as well!!! Im happy with the way it turned out as far...

 

[Jimbo662]

Great setup!

 

[DeniseAndy]

Nicely done. Long wait, but finally get to have some fun with it. What are you planning for animals?

 

[fishguy242]

very nice following

 

[mahindra.dev]

Nicely done. Long wait, but finally get to have some fun with it. What are you planning for animals?

Thank you @DeniseAndy!!! Long wait indeed. Due to lockdown and restriction on livestock imports, I can’t seem to have much of a choice!!
But this is what I plan for fish
A. 2 Clowns
B. Flasher Wrasse (McCoskers)
C. Fairy Wrasse (Lubbock)
D. Bi-Color Blenny
E. Flame or Long nose Hawkfish

6 @ the moment, may go upto 7.
All small 2-3 inch fishes.
I’m going BB, as my scape restricts me from vacuuming my sand bed!! So no sand wrasse or gobies!!!

 

[mahindra.dev]

very nice following

Thank you

 

[mahindra.dev]

Great setup!

Thank you @Jimbo662

 

[mahindra.dev]

How about another update... Hmm so things gone wrong... the spray can said Orange Red!!! I don’t see any traces of Orange in this

I organised the wires for now and this is the control panel that is in the pull out for all my Apex and other wiring!!! I’m going to redo it in Grey and Orange to match my APEX Gear. The pull out is the drawer on the cabinet.

once I redo this I’ll post another update!!

 

[MightyMO]

Looking good!!!

 

[revhtree]

Great build so far! WOOT!

 

[mahindra.dev]

Looking good!!!

Thank you @MightyMO... Appreciate all the likes!!! More updates coming