Fatmike's Sexy 57 Rimless

Lilmatty5dimes · Mar 16, 2013

Awesome. Are we getting the salt in there tonight or this weekend?

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Lilmatty5dimes · Mar 16, 2013

Awesome. Are we getting the saltwater in there tonight or this weekend?

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Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

I'll have it running tomorrow!

Zack · Mar 17, 2013

About time! I like the water mixing/storage container you have there. How much water does it hold?

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Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

almost full!! ha slowly but surly I need to get a sock first before I put my sand in im going to go snag one today and then I also need some calibration fluid for my refractometer. hopefully I can get some live rock in today

Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

Alright Salinity is where I want it! 1.025

So I got some rock from the other tank and I am putting it in the sump. Here we go!

sexycorals · Mar 17, 2013

looking good MIKE!!

Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

Zack said:
About time! I like the water mixing/storage container you have there. How much water does it hold?

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It holds 50 gallons.

Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

sexycorals said:
looking good MIKE!!

Thanks mike! I'll be wanting those corals soon!

Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

Alright salinity good. I put live Rock in the sump. And sand in the display! Now it's really murky! Ha my filter sock does not to seem to be doing to well. Hopefully it will be cleared up in the morning

Lilmatty5dimes · Mar 17, 2013

Very nice mike. It's finally coming together. Can't wait to see it after the sand settles.

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Sacohen · Mar 17, 2013

Fatmike92 said:
Ha thanks lilmatty!

And liquid I don't want your salt anyways!!

Here it is! I need to mess with the brackets and the wires a bit more.

Mike are the brackets bent electrical conduit?
If so you could run the wiring thru the conduit down to the bottom.

Fatmike92 · Mar 17, 2013

I'm going to run the wires down the bracket but I can't go inside the bracket

bknapp · Mar 18, 2013

To hide the wires along the bracket legs go to HD or Lowe's and get the plastic wire tracks that you can use to hide wires along walls and just paint them the color of the legs, I used one along the back of my tank to help keep the wires from just hanging loose. They come with double sided tape.

Fatmike92 · Mar 18, 2013

bknapp said:
To hide the wires along the bracket legs go to HD or Lowe's and get the plastic wire tracks that you can use to hide wires along walls and just paint them the color of the legs, I used one along the back of my tank to help keep the wires from just hanging loose. They come with double sided tape.

ok awesome! ill check that out

so big update. I am going to making a canopy to hide the brackets, lights and wires. Also the biggest reason I am doing it is everyone hate the blue glow it puts out..... whatever thats fine ill hide it the best I can. so that means some kind of hanging canopy. that still allows you to see the rimless edge. ive got a ton of carboard laying around for stuff being shipped so Im going to cut that tp what I think will work and show you guys what im talking about

ha the only reason I am doing this is because my fiance hates the glow and it is her parents rental house and they hate the glow also. so Im just trying to please everyone. If I do it right I think it will look really good though

kschweer · Mar 18, 2013

Fatmike92 said:
ok awesome! ill check that out

so big update. I am going to making a canopy to hide the brackets, lights and wires. Also the biggest reason I am doing it is everyone hate the blue glow it puts out..... whatever thats fine ill hide it the best I can. so that means some kind of hanging canopy. that still allows you to see the rimless edge. ive got a ton of carboard laying around for stuff being shipped so Im going to cut that tp what I think will work and show you guys what im talking about

ha the only reason I am doing this is because my fiance hates the glow and it is her parents rental house and they hate the glow also. so Im just trying to please everyone. If I do it right I think it will look really good though

I just built one for a friend of mine. It's really simple and makes things look "finished". It still needs trim and molding to match the other one I built but you can get a general idea.

Last picture is how its attached to the wall you can attach it to the wall or hang from the ceiling. Either way works but I think attached to the wall looks cleaner. The pieces on the wall will be painted to match the wall so you will really have to look to see them

Fatmike92 · Mar 18, 2013

Thanks! Ya I am going to need some help with this one.

Swine · Mar 18, 2013

Stop making my life more difficult and adding to the list of good ideas I should use for my next build!

I always wanted a canopy but they have bad salt creep problems and make it a pain to run maintenance. But this idea is great because they glow can be annoying when you see it out of the corner of your eye

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Fatmike92 · Mar 18, 2013

Swine said:
Stop making my life more difficult and adding to the list of good ideas I should use for my next build!

I always wanted a canopy but they have bad salt creep problems and make it a pain to run maintenance. But this idea is great because they glow can be annoying when you see it out of the corner of your eye

sent from my phone.

Haha I'm glad I can give you ideas!!

And ya they are mad because we just completely redid that room and they say it completely ruins it and blah blah blah. So fine I'll fix it just pay for all my materials lol. I'm out of money after everything I bought for this thing!

Fatmike92 · Mar 18, 2013

hopefully I can buy the lumber tomorrow. its going to be very tall I think I need to try out some different sizes but it will be 40" x 20" x around 24"