What have you made for your tank? (ANYTHING)

[Young Frankenstein]

I am currently grinding frag plus ............... will come back soon ..................

 

[Lemony Lemons]

Old thread, but I'm still interested in people's creations!! Maybe someone will add to it

 

[trido]

For me, its easier to list what I haven't built. A display tank.

 

[Squishie89]

I made an egg crate box to rehab an anemone

Just egg crate and a lot of zip ties

I also made an isolation chamber to rehab a snail.

I used a reefgently acclimate insert, blue polyfoam and sand.

 

[Lemony Lemons]

I made an egg crate box to rehab an anemone

Just egg crate and a lot of zip ties

I also made an isolation chamber to rehab a snail.

Good idea & nicely done, looks nice & clean.

 

[Lemony Lemons]

I've only been in this hobby under a year, just finished cycling my 90g and needed a lid. This was my first DIY project.
2 10' aluminum screen side sticks, 1 package of clear 1/4" screen from bulkreefsupply.com, 2 corner kits, spline and a roller. 11 bucks at home depot + the screen from brs. I'm very proud of my first DIY

I am now looking to make a fish trap. Probably just go the empty bottle, inverted lid route.

 

[mfinn]

I've made pretty much everything from frag racks, to lighting, to canopies and stands to tanks.

 

[PepperDeath]

My 15 gallon dt and sump build out of acrylic

 

[Lemony Lemons]

Anyone have a fish trap diy that's not the 'inverted bottle'?

 

[Lemony Lemons]

Did you cut the acrylic yourself? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm not familiar with any of this lol)

 

[Pny]

I've made a few things... ;-)

Found this list of my previous DIY projects laying around:

• Octagon aquarium stand for 145 liter aquarium (1999)
• Aquarium stand for 980 liter aquarium (2002)
• Flash-memory logging pH controller for planted tank, (2005)
• Aquarium High-Tech sump (2008)
• PVC type silent overflow (2008)
• Dual chamber upflow media filter (2009)
• Biopellets reactor (2010)
• DIY Tunze safety connector - Incomplete! (2011)
• LED ligthning, 550 W (2011)
• Arduino LED Controller, 16 chn, "Duodecima" (2011)
• Six channel LED driver, "Hexa 4101" (2011)
• Recirculating biopellets reactor (2012)
• Frag rack (2012)
• Return pump manifold (2013)
• Almost floating algae scrubber "The Belgian Blue" (2013)
• 3 channel LED Controller and driver (2013)
• STC-1000 based dual temperature controller (2013)
• Twin 1,5 liter Upflow reactors (2014)
• Compact STC-1000 temperature controller (2014)

Please notice the clickable links!

Twin reactors...

 

[tyler1503]

I did a DIY dosing device, rebuilt my sump, a refugium, I melted a razor blade to a toothbrush (just like on prison tv show's lol) so I can easily reach around rocks to scrape algae off the glass. A few other little things I can't think off right now too

 

[tyler1503]

Anyone have a fish trap diy that's not the 'inverted bottle'?

Is not exactly a trap and it takes a long time to do it, but a mate of mine used a big plastic colander as a "feeding tool". He attached nori to the inside and after a while the fish trusted it enough to swim right in it. After they were in, he just pulled the colander out with the fish inside

 

[tyler1503]

Oh, and I've also build a stand, moonlight/accent lighting, fish food, an acclimation box and I'm in the process of finding a way to add the moonlights I built to an existing fluorescent fixture. Oh the joy of DIY!

 

[PepperDeath]

Did you cut the acrylic yourself? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm not familiar with any of this lol)

No it's not a stupid question. And yes I cut all of the acrylic my self on a table saw

 

[YodaHart]

Made a fan tray that sits nicely over my 40B DIY sump. Here's the excerpt from my build thread

Finished the fan tray today. It turned out pretty well and I think it's going to do the job. The fans are dead silent and move tons of air. I attached them with little rubber feet so you don't hear any vibration. Here are the fans I used: COUGAR CF-V12HB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) 300,000 Hours 12CM Silent Cooling Fan (Black) - Newegg.com


I still need to solder the power wires together and heat seal them.


Here's a pic from the top:



I added rails on the bottom to prevent the acrylic from bowing over time.



Here are some pics of it sitting on the sump with my new skimmer in place






There's just enough room to slide the tray to the right and remove the socks.


Btw, if you're using a hole saw to cut acrylic, it works much better if you run the drill in reverse. The bit will chip away the acrylic and it doesn't over heat your drill. It worked perfectly! Not as clean as a cut with a router, but it did the job considering the holes will be covered up.

 

[Codemonkey812]

Temperature controller (for $20), and media reactor.

 

[Sacohen]

I've made several things.
A stand for a 125 gallon tank
Slide out drip tray for a Wet/Dry trickle filter
I just made my first sump with chamber. I need more practice of patients with that.

The thing I like the most or was the most creative was a mount for ATO float switch.

The Float valve screws into a PVC end cap that I drilled and tapped to accept the thread pattern of the float valve.
then I just ran the wiring up through the PVC pipe and out the top.
Added benefit of protecting the wires from anything.

 

[Lemony Lemons]

Is not exactly a trap and it takes a long time to do it, but a mate of mine used a big plastic colander as a "feeding tool". He attached nori to the inside and after a while the fish trusted it enough to swim right in it. After they were in, he just pulled the colander out with the fish inside

Not a bad idea, I may try that!

 

[tyler1503]

Yea I was impressed with easily it worked. The fish have to trust the colander really well first though. Like a normal fish trap, one stuff up and the fish may never trust it again.