Ron's 20 Drop Off Reef Tank

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 19, 2013

Correct me if I'm wrong, I do not use forums that often, is this the correct place to start my build thread for the Nano in 90?
If so....

I've decided to enter a 20 gallon high tank that I found in my basement. I painted 3 sides black a while ago and decided to run with it!
I'm going to use silicone to mount rocks on boths side corners of the tank. I have never attempted this, so good luck to me! Also all the rock i bought for the tank is man made "eco friendly?".
I was thinking for my theme to be Aquacultured only, man made only, so-to-speak. The light I am going to use is going to be a PAR38 that I got in a trade a few weeks back. Its apparently Ebay style, so it should be a perfect test to see if the Ebay LED is worth it!
My challange is going to be finding aquacultured fish... Clown fish will be a given in my tank =) the rest.... we will see! I'm not going to do any sand in the tank either. The tank is sitting right now with the silicone drying. I'll post pictures as soon as i get it standing up straight!

tbryan · Apr 19, 2013

Sounds cool, you can get tank raised dottybacks, good sized fish for a 20.

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 20, 2013

Awesome! And my LFS said he can get me a tank raised Wrasse of some sort. Gonna be intense!

Mike&Terry · Apr 22, 2013

LEDSIXTYFIVE said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, I do not use forums that often, is this the correct place to start my build thread for the Nano in 90?
If so....

I've decided to enter a 20 gallon high tank that I found in my basement. I painted 3 sides black a while ago and decided to run with it!
I'm going to use silicone to mount rocks on boths side corners of the tank. I have never attempted this, so good luck to me! Also all the rock i bought for the tank is man made "eco friendly?".
I was thinking for my theme to be Aquacultured only, man made only, so-to-speak. The light I am going to use is going to be a PAR38 that I got in a trade a few weeks back. Its apparently Ebay style, so it should be a perfect test to see if the Ebay LED is worth it!
My challange is going to be finding aquacultured fish... Clown fish will be a given in my tank =) the rest.... we will see! I'm not going to do any sand in the tank either. The tank is sitting right now with the silicone drying. I'll post pictures as soon as i get it standing up straight!

Yes, this is the correct forum for the Nano in 90 2013 build threads.

Good luck with your build and we look forward to following your progress!
-M&T

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 22, 2013

Okay awesome, pictures coming up tomorrow

revhtree · Apr 22, 2013

Looking forward to this!

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 23, 2013

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 23, 2013

Sadly enough!!!!!!

((((

After I got this all set up - I found out one of the pumps was defective which meant all my patience was gone to waste. I'm going to have to do a different nano

ill delete this thread as soon as I figure out a new idea.

Fatmike92 · Apr 23, 2013

Aqua scape is sweet though!!!

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 23, 2013

I may do a 1 gallon "Big" pico. All sps LOL

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 23, 2013

Fatmike92 said:
Aqua scape is sweet though!!!

Thanks Mike! I was gonna do a bunch of aquaculture s frogspawn and torch and hammer on the glass bottom. When they were all out and happy it would look like a field of awesome.

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 23, 2013

Also a good note is Aqueon aquarium silicone does NOT stick to rocks very well, but does stick to glass amazingly.

SeahorseKeeper · Apr 23, 2013

Bummer about the setback. I'm sure you'll come up with a great idea.

Daniel@R2R · Apr 23, 2013

This looked like such an awesome idea! I hate that it isn't going to work out.

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 24, 2013

mdbannister said:
This looked like such an awesome idea! I hate that it isn't going to work out.

grrr!

aperture.pcs · Apr 24, 2013

Why quit because of the pump? I don't get it

LEDSIXTYFIVE · Apr 24, 2013

aperture.pcs said:
Why quit because of the pump? I don't get it

I had the pump siliconed to tubing which ran behind the rock. So basically all the rock had to come off in order to remove the pump... A flaw from the beginning and one I'm glad occurred prior to coral being introduced. Anyways I have major plans in the "making" literally. I am going build a 12x12x24" from acyrilic, which will be again a first for me. Going to do the rock on both sides again but with a different flow plan. Ill be using the same light and what not. I'm still going to go aquaculture only

, go green or go home! (I'm by no means a green freak but I'm hoping it will give me an originality kudo). I got a peice of wood from a guy cutting down these huge trees in his yard that I'm going to use as the stand base. I'm going to do some sort of mirror 12x12 to put on the bottom of the aquarium so that way when you look down everything is reflected! So this will still be the "Drop off" but it will be a 15 gallon. Thanks for checking out the thread! Happy building!

Mike&Terry · Apr 30, 2013

LEDSIXTYFIVE said:
I had the pump siliconed to tubing which ran behind the rock. So basically all the rock had to come off in order to remove the pump... A flaw from the beginning and one I'm glad occurred prior to coral being introduced. Anyways I have major plans in the "making" literally. I am going build a 12x12x24" from acyrilic, which will be again a first for me. Going to do the rock on both sides again but with a different flow plan. Ill be using the same light and what not. I'm still going to go aquaculture only , go green or go home! (I'm by no means a green freak but I'm hoping it will give me an originality kudo). I got a peice of wood from a guy cutting down these huge trees in his yard that I'm going to use as the stand base. I'm going to do some sort of mirror 12x12 to put on the bottom of the aquarium so that way when you look down everything is reflected! So this will still be the "Drop off" but it will be a 15 gallon. Thanks for checking out the thread! Happy building!

Glad you are staying in the contest and we're looking forward to following your build.

LEDSIXTYFIVE · May 2, 2013

Alright well this weekend marks the time I build the tank! I'm way nervous I'm gonna do some solid research on people who have built acrylic tanks before. Yikes!