TighTT
Active Member
While my wife and I are having a newly purchased home renovated, we moved into an apartment. Unfortunately my Elos 160 could not come with us so I decided to have a new, custom frag tank built. This new tank will serve two purposes:
First, to house my corals and inhabitants while we live in the apartment (roughly a year) while our house is being worked on.
Second, once the house is complete, it will be a full time frag tank (just a 6-line wrasse as far as fish go).
I decided on a size, 36x36 cube, 18 inches tall, star fire glass on all sides, center overflow. I contracted my LFS, Absolutely fish to have the tank made by their tank guy(s).
Here is the outcome:
For the stand, we went with a 38X38 custom built out of 2 inch square steel. We then powder coated it gloss black:
Then came to lighting...and how we would hang said lights. I knew I wanted to keep lighting simple...just strait LED's this time. I also didn't want to hang them from the ceiling, so a custom built light arm was in order. I wanted to build something strong, that would bolt to the stand, and would hold 4 radian pro's (two 30's and two 15's) with ease. So we used inch square steel and fab'ed up a custom arm...then powder coated it black to match the stand. In progress:
Time to bring everything to the apartment and set it up!!
Seen above is the royal exclusive speedy DC return pump we went with.
ATSS 36 inch sump/refugium installed with a temporary ATB in-sump skimmer:
Tank is wet...letting it cycle for about a month...
running the light cables:
Wired:
Lit:
Candy Basslet doing his thing...
New external DC powered Octopus skimmer:
First, to house my corals and inhabitants while we live in the apartment (roughly a year) while our house is being worked on.
Second, once the house is complete, it will be a full time frag tank (just a 6-line wrasse as far as fish go).
I decided on a size, 36x36 cube, 18 inches tall, star fire glass on all sides, center overflow. I contracted my LFS, Absolutely fish to have the tank made by their tank guy(s).
Here is the outcome:
For the stand, we went with a 38X38 custom built out of 2 inch square steel. We then powder coated it gloss black:
Then came to lighting...and how we would hang said lights. I knew I wanted to keep lighting simple...just strait LED's this time. I also didn't want to hang them from the ceiling, so a custom built light arm was in order. I wanted to build something strong, that would bolt to the stand, and would hold 4 radian pro's (two 30's and two 15's) with ease. So we used inch square steel and fab'ed up a custom arm...then powder coated it black to match the stand. In progress:
Time to bring everything to the apartment and set it up!!
Seen above is the royal exclusive speedy DC return pump we went with.
ATSS 36 inch sump/refugium installed with a temporary ATB in-sump skimmer:
Tank is wet...letting it cycle for about a month...
running the light cables:
Wired:
Lit:
Candy Basslet doing his thing...
New external DC powered Octopus skimmer:
