Having some fun with my son, he is really taking a liking to the reef tanks.
Picked up a 60 gallon cube from a while back. Finally got started a few weeks ago putting things together.
The tank has a cool little skimmer and even a GFO reactor, a return pump and a powerhead.
It is a 24x24x24 cube, a perfect cube, pretty cool.
So far we have done the following together:
1) Cooked the live rock (bleach and muriatic acid)
2) Built the stand from scratch
3) Painted stand
4) Moved the tank up to his room, level / shim / placed the tank.
5) Polished the tank with acyrlic polish to remove scratches
Today we looked together at build threads for cubes to find a rock layout he liked. We prototyped it out of the tank, and then glued and used fiberglass rod to put together his dream scape.
Very, very fun times to have a reef buddy in the house.
Here is the rockscape he settled on and a pic of his cube.
Picked up a 60 gallon cube from a while back. Finally got started a few weeks ago putting things together.
The tank has a cool little skimmer and even a GFO reactor, a return pump and a powerhead.
It is a 24x24x24 cube, a perfect cube, pretty cool.
So far we have done the following together:
1) Cooked the live rock (bleach and muriatic acid)
2) Built the stand from scratch
3) Painted stand
4) Moved the tank up to his room, level / shim / placed the tank.
5) Polished the tank with acyrlic polish to remove scratches
Today we looked together at build threads for cubes to find a rock layout he liked. We prototyped it out of the tank, and then glued and used fiberglass rod to put together his dream scape.
Very, very fun times to have a reef buddy in the house.
Here is the rockscape he settled on and a pic of his cube.
