TheSaint216's 65 gallon

[TheSaint216]

Well I started out with a 20 gallon tall, got bored, moved it to a 37 and now finally a 65. The 65 Im doing my first sump. The stand was in pretty rough shape, my brother helped me with the wood working. Ill post as I go, its close to being finished but I figured Id put this up because I learned and got ideas by looks at other peoples tanks so someone might get an idea from mine. This has been a work in progress over the past two months.

The stand and Canopy were painted with a Black Marine paint that almost looked like someone tried to paint a piano and the paint had tons of drip marks on it.

 

[TheSaint216]

Fresh Coat of Espresso Paint, white paint inside

Canopy redone, used same canopy just gave it a facelift.

Installing Sump, Light rack was made out of conduit and painted with Krylon Fusion.
Cost $20 in supplies to make and literally took 15 minutes to put together.

 

[TheSaint216]

Sump Coming together

 

[TheSaint216]

My Purigen Reactor Purigen Reactor - YouTube

[video=youtube;bcHUnDB7J-w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcHUnDB7J-w&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[TheSaint216]

My Bio Pellet Reactor Bio Pellet Reactor - YouTube

[video=youtube;XXw5d9fuLc8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXw5d9fuLc8&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Looking good! I like the color of the stand.

 

[TheSaint216]

Thanks Rev

 

[Aquaph8]

Looking really good, the stand cleaned up nicely.

 

[bige]

Looks good. Why did you go with a purigen reactor? This a great product, but not seen it in a reactor. Plus it changes colors when exhausted. You may be on to something. I wouldnt worry about it not tumbling at the bottom. Also that is a lot of bio pellets to start with.

 

[wysiwyg]

very nice start keep us posted as you add livestock

 

[TheSaint216]

Livestock is in, I just dont have a camera that works well with the LED's. I went with purigen because for me it does the same thing carbon does but has alot more benefits. Purigen works best from what Ive read when its tumbling and you dont get the same effect when you just throw it in a bag. This way I get alot of uniform movement of the purigen so its more effective. I also went with a cup and a half of bio pellets, read that it was one cup per 50 gallons. I have about 85 gallons total water and figured on 75 gallons of rock displacement. The tank is bare bottom and I also did some things in the tank where I save money on live rock with creative use of acrylic.

 

[uall8up]

Looks great. You really did a wonderful job on all the facelifts you gave everything!

 

[Pappy]

Looks great!

 

[TheSaint216]

Thanks guys

 

[3Twinklets]

Everything looks beautiful. Great job!

 

[AsphaltPays]

Very nice job


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[revsgirl]

Lookin' good!!!

 

[pagerocks]

very nice

 

[TheSaint216]

Step 1 of redoing the purigen reactor I got rid of the filters that came with the BRS reactor that failed me and just took the cap off and put SeaChems "The Bag" over it and put the cap back in.

Step 2 I cut off all the excess bag so I could put the final cap back on

This is how the movement in the BRS reactor looks now, Video on you tube.
Purigen Reactor 2 - YouTube


The other thing I did, and this is if your on a budget or if you dont want to lift rocks all the time to clean detrius is I went to a local LFS and had them cut me 2, five inch pieces of round acrylic tube. You'd never know by looking from the front and hopefully eventually they will cover in coralline. My clowns are camera ******.