Custom 4ft Shallow Peninsula - Part 1

[scottrotton]

Not the best as DIY but i gave it a good go

 

[Brew12]

Looks great, you did a nice job!

I'm curious, you call it a shallow peninsula but it doesn't look that shallow to me. I would have thought it was at least 20" high. How shallow is it?

 

[Greybeard]

What's the height? Looks to be 22 or 24" to me, I'd not call that shallow

Nice looking start. Stand appears to be plenty strong. Love the clean, white look.

Enjoy

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Looking nice. Following >>>>>

 

[mahindra.dev]

Looks very nice. Did a good job so far!! Yeah same as others what is the height? Following...

 

[zcedric]

You should give you more credit!

Looking good, Following along!

 

[scottrotton]

Bought a new orange hammer.

 

[scottrotton]

Growth pics from

Oct
March

 

[OriginalUserName]

Stand looks great. What did you use to face and paint it?

 

[Clayton Jessup]

It looks very nice

 

[Picesduh]

WhAt salt are you using?

 

[scottrotton]

Im using Auqaforest salt and balling method, I have a refugium with DIY COB 4k and 3.5k LED on Dimmable meanwell driver for export along with a Deltec 1350 Skimmer

 

[scottrotton]

Stand is MDF, used some wood filler on the sides, sanded with 80 GSM, then 200, then 600 GSM

After i sanded and it was smooth i used a Shellac based primer and top coat. sanded again with 600.

Then i applied a water based polyurethane

To be honest it was hard work and wouldn't do it again! If i had to build one i would of used pine paneling or hardwood.

Nothing that absorbs paint, I would of also used an aluminium extrusion frame.

 

[scottrotton]

BTW dimensions

120cm x45 x45

which is 48 x 18 x18

Don't know what a shallow reef is classed as but its shallow enough when i keep burning lps at the bottom of my tank yet SPS cant get enough light ;Facepalm;Facepalm

 

[scottrotton]

This month's update.

Added a red sea mesh top

Found my nyos test kit us faulty and I've had 0 nitrates for roughly 3 months so started dosing nitrate. Corals are improving already.

 

[scottrotton]

First part of my video journal, covers the hardware builds. Hopefully it helps anyone thinking of going DIY

 

[scottrotton]

Few new fish and corals this weekend.

5 x anthia
1 mimic tang
1 x hammer pink
1 x frogspwan

 

[scottrotton]

A video update on my corals, I go through whats working for me and not. I may also have a case of Ich so subscribe for my action plan regarding that

 

[larryl]

Spectacular tank!

 

[scottrotton]

Noticed my wrasse has signs of ich so went out and grabbed this.

Start my dose last night, 3 scopes x2 per day.

I will document the progress to see if this stuff really works

Polyp lab medic