Diy all in one aquarium

[Putzyjd]

Hi everyone I just figured I'd show some pictures of my do it yourself all in one glass aquarium with acrylic baffles if anyone has any questions let me know

 

[benpoole28]

Looks good, I like the bullet spacers. I built a 10 gallon similar to this for raising black worms.

 

[DustyXB9Reefer]

haha I dig the .223 casing spacers! Cool little tank man.

 

[Reef man 89]

Looking good. Just wondering what's your estimated on how much it cost to build?

 

[Putzyjd]

haha I dig the .223 casing spacers! Cool little tank man.

Looks good, I like the bullet spacers. I built a 10 gallon similar to this for raising black worms.

Thanks haha I worked with what I had

 

[Putzyjd]

Looking good. Just wondering what's your estimated on how much it cost to build?

In the tank itself I have
-$15 for weldon 4 acrylic glue
-$16 for the 1/8 green acrylic
-$33 for the 1/4 black acrilic
-$11 for aquarium silicone
-$30 ish for the 1/2 hose and pluming
-$9 for the flexible loc line from BRS
-$free tank from my co worker

So around $114 for the tank itself

The pump and heater prices vary widely and the net screen top is optional

-$52 Sicce syncra silent pump
-$35 diy screen net top BRS
-$40 for the aqueon 200 watt heater

$127 for that stuff

There's also a lot of other stuff that's optional I have a $9 nano filter sock. you can choose to go bare bottom and save $39 on sand. And I have reef saver Rock from BRS it was $96.

Compared to a all in one 20 gallon peninsula from innovative marine that's $250 I'd say I saved quite a bit and mine is 30 gallon and I have a upgraded pump.

 

[benpoole28]

You'll definitely want some sort of ato on a tank that small. Salinity fluctuations are greater on small tanks.

 

[Reef man 89]

That's pretty cheap to build that tank I have the Nuvo 40 and I thought about giving it a try to build my own. Just to see my DIY skills. After seeing what it coast you I might give it a try and build a small frag tank at first.

 

[Putzyjd]

You'll definitely want some sort of ato on a tank that small. Salinity fluctuations are greater on small tanks.

Yea I need one I've just been filling it up to a certain point with rodi water

 

[Putzyjd]

That's pretty cheap to build that tank I have the Nuvo 40 and I thought about giving it a try to build my own. Just to see my DIY skills. After seeing what it coast you I might give it a try and build a small frag tank at first.

I'd go ahead and try it haha full sheets of acrylic get pretty expensive though. It worked pretty well with the glass and acrylic.

 

[kmcanallen11]

How's this holding up? I have a 27gal marineland cube that I want to turn into an AIO and pretty much want to do exactly what you did. Any suggestions or recommendations? Anything you'd do differently or change looking back?

Thanks!

 

[Ranjib]

Love it