And now for the good stuff.
It's been some time since I've edited photos taken under LEDs though, so I'm sure I'll get better at this as we progress here.
Looking down the tank:
From the right side:
Still on the right side, from the back towards the front. And with the ugly frag tank poking through.
Unless I get a different lens, I won't be able to take a shot straight on from the right side; I can't step far enough away without running into the wall.
The left side:
Left side again, but with the flash on so you can actually see the stand!
A few inquired earlier what I was doing with the space between the tank and wall. You can see how a single reclaimed board covers that all up. Those are on lift off hinges too, so they can quickly/easily get out of the way when needed.
More of the same:
Left side, back half:
Left side, middle:
Left side, front half:
Looking down the tank again:
Right side, front half:
Right side, middle:
Right side, back half:
Here's the dry part of the stand, with all the equipment in place. Everything is mounted and easily accessible. And no, I didn't take a picture with the equipment board opened up; it's really just a mess of cords and DC power supplies in there.
Here is the right side of the stand, wet area. ATO tank on left, with the calcium reactor in front of it. That's the Titan Aquatics reactor there in the middle, in front of the skimmer. Vectra and ATO floats are on the right. This also is a decent look at the plumbing; the three drains come down from the top left. The one in the middle and then turning nearest you is just the emergency and is intentionally plumbed into and above the return chamber - in the event of an emergency drain it gets very noisy - a good thing! You can also see the tee off of the return line which, left to right, manifolds the calcium reactor, the media reactor, and the third valve for water changes (it has a quick disconnect male fitting on it). I have the Neptune feeder above the return pump; the pellets are easily sucked up by the return pump at feeding time.
If you looked carefully at the last photo, you probably noticed the wiring duct in the background. 80/20 sells these as well, and I made good use of them on both sides of the wet side of the stand. All the wires run up under the top rails and are then routed though the openings in the stand divider you saw in the prior post. One last thing to point out here is the 20 foot LED rope I have tucked up above the wiring ducts which runs all along the inside of the stand. You can just see a piece of it on the top left of the photo. I tried to get more of it in the shot, but the camera sensor doesn't much care for all those diodes shining into the lens. There are door switches on all 5 of the stand doors so the rope light comes on whenever a door is opened up. You can see a door switch on the top left here too, just below the rope light.
A closer shot of the media reactor in service; GFO on the left, carbon on the right:
Here we are looking from the left side of the stand, into the wet area. There's an Avast K1 kalk stirrer on the right; the ATO is piped through it. Mesh filter socks are on the left, and the awesome Reef Octopus skimmer is here in the middle (I am really pleased with it - most consistent skimmer I've ever owned). You can see the wire ducts at the top of the photo on the other side of the stand, and there's the LED rope near the top right passing through the stand divider hole along with the wires on that side.
Last shot; here's looking down onto the overflow, with about an inch to spare from the wall. I opened up the reclaimed board against the wall a bit for this shot too. That is a return line passing through the tank here, and I intentionally plumbed them away from the back panel so I could still mount the dry sides of the vortechs where ever they worked best. Lastly here is a peak at the custom screen tops that Titan Aquatic also made for me. They are cut to fit into the top tank brace (there's two of them; another near the front).
(no promises)
