Waterbox 25 aio drilled with overflow system start

[Treehrtsme]

So I got a water box 25 AIO peninsula a little while back and one thing led to another and I figured I'd go completely all out. See how much equipment and expandability I could jam into this one system, while making it as modular as possible and easy to break down so one person can move it. Should have started this thread earlier but recently I've realized I'm going to have to redo a large portion of the plumbing I'll post some pics

I managed to jam and aqua fusion nano with a n y o s 120 eclair CSK 3000 a pax bellum in 24 with room for three media reactors or whatever else I want. Above the sump I intend I'm putting a small frag tank that I'm debating on how to plumb I already have the pieces cut I just need to solder them together.

As I mentioned the idea behind this was to make it so I could potentially connect another tank to this system such as a species only or a larger frag tank. If I needed a larger skimmer chamber I can make that and plum that into what I already had same thing with any expansion, but making sure to keep parts small maximum tank size of 30 to 40 gallons. Unfortunately progress has been extremely slow.

The equipment I have so far includes two aquamatic 2.3 DC runners, two prime 16 HDS, 2 Nero 3s and everything mentioned prior.

I'll take any advice ideas or criticism on this. The stand was completely custom built out of oak and poplar plywood and we'll need some serious aesthetic touch up when I'm done with everything else, I plan to put cabinet doors on it.

 

[blaxsun]

Can't wait to see the finished product...

 

[Gumbies R Us]

So I got a water box 25 AIO peninsula a little while back and one thing led to another and I figured I'd go completely all out. See how much equipment and expandability I could jam into this one system, while making it as modular as possible and easy to break down so one person can move it. Should have started this thread earlier but recently I've realized I'm going to have to redo a large portion of the plumbing I'll post some pics

I managed to jam and aqua fusion nano with a n y o s 120 eclair CSK 3000 a pax bellum in 24 with room for three media reactors or whatever else I want. Above the sump I intend I'm putting a small frag tank that I'm debating on how to plumb I already have the pieces cut I just need to solder them together.

As I mentioned the idea behind this was to make it so I could potentially connect another tank to this system such as a species only or a larger frag tank. If I needed a larger skimmer chamber I can make that and plum that into what I already had same thing with any expansion, but making sure to keep parts small maximum tank size of 30 to 40 gallons. Unfortunately progress has been extremely slow.

The equipment I have so far includes two aquamatic 2.3 DC runners, two prime 16 HDS, 2 Nero 3s and everything mentioned prior.

I'll take any advice ideas or criticism on this. The stand was completely custom built out of oak and poplar plywood and we'll need some serious aesthetic touch up when I'm done with everything else, I plan to put cabinet doors on it.

Following!

 

[Raptor72]

Updates?

 

[Treehrtsme]

I'll post some pics when I get home but as of right now it's a abandoned project. Near completely finished it and now I have it for sale on the local market. I got to the point where I had an extremely complex amount of plumbing setup and I just needed to put the cabinet doors on either side, but the final commitment is taking out the all-in-one chamber cuz it's really not necessary and it's all glass so it'd be pretty difficult to cleanly get it out. I had even put a frag tank on the second shelf. This whole bill took me a very long time so now I focus on doing commissions in the area that actually make me money. Wish I had more free time to work on this kind of stuff. Currently I'm moving back towards some building and smaller tanks. I'm running some 22 bookshelves, a 12 bookshelf, and then I have some larger tanks that I'm hanging on to and advertising for commission builds in the area

 

[Treehrtsme]

My main issue was I messed up the stand a little when it came to drilling holes from the plumbing and then decided I was just going to make the stand entirely out of cellular PVC board. I ended up getting most of the parts for the stand ready cementing and screwing together two pieces of half inch PVC board since it's somewhat flimsy but it was honestly a bit too time consuming. Another issue was that the pax bellum and 24 was honestly too big. I planned on switching to a Geo ATR 418 and a Geo cryptic 418 but never put it all together this is as far as I ever got

 

[FUNGI]

with all that equipment....now you need a bigger tank.........

 

[Treehrtsme]

I took up a commission for a custom some modification fitting in AFR and a sump it should not have fit in as well as doing the plumbing and that just kind of interrupted the whole project. Here's some pictures from that one. I honestly didn't keep the best documentation on this build.

 

[Treehrtsme]

with all that equipment....now you need a bigger tank.........

I have so much equipment that's not even funny. I have a pax bellum c-36. I do own a 220 a 57 shallow a 60 breeder a 40 breeder a 24 cube two of the water boxes a 13.5 a couple of fives two threes and so on.

The 220 I got for free but that's going to be a project tank if I ever get around to it. Full reseal drill custom sump custom stand and so on. I actually have all the equipment for it, just got a 20 inch Shadow style overflow box, but who knows when I'll get around to that.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Following along!

 

[Treehrtsme]

I'll post some pics of my 22. It's a bit of a mess externally just because I've been messing with gear (just hung a 240watt light over it). Nothing too fancy, but I was able to put it on a short PVC stand as they sort of proof of concept. I planned on using a mame style overflow in the Lily pipes, but the overflow I got would not venturi at all and I'm not going to trust that when I'm not home. It's currently overcrowded too. I have other established tanks I need to move some of the fish into and The Rock work is in the greatest so there's nothing much special about it. Did get a pretty big log of GSP from a local member in there aside from that I just have some plane zoa's and a gorgonian. Once I get my 12 and 22 bookshelf running then I'll have more time to focus on the aquascape and corals.

At some point I would like to get back to the water box cuz I went through all the trouble bonding all those 1 in PVC boards and routing most of them down to the right size, and since I've already done the plumbing and everything once doing it a second time should be a whole lot easier.