FINALLY! The build thread

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Ooooooooooooooooo...K here goes

Background:
90 gallon plan- met the girlfriend
60 gallon plan- married the girlfriend and got a stepson and became a family man
30 gallon plan- Not enough money
28 gallon plan- Move to second floor apartment and wife is scared of water damage (also not enough money)

25 gallon plan- BOUGHT A 25 LAGOON FUSION COMPULSIVELY AND STARTED BUILDING CUSTOM STAND OMG THE RELIEF!

I've asked a couple silly questions and made a joke here and there but haven't really piped up here on R2R but you guys (new and old) half taught me a bunch more than what I knew to begin with having been in this hobby for a couple years.

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Inner frame work for the stand. I could only work on this thing late at night so excuse the lack of light.

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I worked in my attempts at a neat electrical panel that I'll post some pictures of later down the thread but it came out great.
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Stand does not fit in little cars
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So here we are. Cycling live and dry rock partly from a little 7 gallon cube I had running with a single black clownfish. Hopefully the cycle is fairly quick. I took a lot of inspiration from some other 25 lagoons out there so thank you to pretty much everyone who owns one lol.

I plan on some great equipment in the future but for now a kessil A80 is sitting up top and an 8 year old Koralia power head is moving things around. As new pieces get added I'll be sure to update.

I can't wait for this thing to be big and colorful. Thanks all for looking!
 
I am still laughing about the intro, great job on the build.
 
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So here's some updates!
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Got some little guys in the tank! Everyone's happy. The smaller of my two clownfish likes to lay in the sand from time to time but looks very healthy and is swimming great otherwise. I think maybe the change in flow is causing her to take a rest since she's so small. My larger clown used to do this.
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Cabinet is as organized as it's gunna get. A lot more has to get crammer in here so we'll see.
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And hoping this dang Chaeto starts growing. Added a little carbon.
I think a dual pair of jebao pp4s will be the next add. I wanna get that giant heater out of there too.
Thanks for looking:)
 

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