my big creation (150 gal. build from scrach)

linx · #1 09/02/2007, 06:56 PM

My 60 gal. tank was never intendent for sps so no need was there for mh lights or calsium reactor,
but when I started putting frags in there against all reason....
well it has been an expiriens

one disaster after another and even tough the tank is ok right now it is a HIGH maintenens system
and looks like a pile of junk if you look at it from a small distance. (my girlfrend is quite patient).

but it is a little better on the inside.

so i decited on a new tank that would look cool from a small distance
this is my designe...

so there is nothing to do but start building!

the stand is steel and will be painted whit black hammorite
and will have birk cover,
well I hope you will enjoy seeing this come to real as much as I will.

crab0000 · #2 09/02/2007, 07:08 PM

Wow! Good start, can't wait to see it come to life.

wentreefgirl · #3 09/03/2007, 10:32 AM

COol.

linx · #4 09/03/2007, 10:52 AM

thanks. me also, my 60 gal is getting on my nerves right now
just found my yellow tang dead wich takes my fish stock from 4 to 3, but I dont think it was my tank that killed him,
the onle thing i could see was a little dark (shadow) under the skin on one side....

but I'm still getting tired with it allways something!!!!

I am waiting to get my glass so I can start bulding my aqarium, the supports for the tank and lights is finished,
and I bought the plummings and silikon today.

I'll post pics of the supports for the tank and lights soon.

kev apsley · #5 09/03/2007, 11:06 AM

good stuff...keep it coming

samsfishnchips · #6 09/03/2007, 03:07 PM

I bet it will be great,

love that last pic, looks so cool,

oh and the tank will look great, I like the pieces of glass rather than the circle(round) of acrylic, which make things look distort

sam

tanya72806 · #7 09/03/2007, 07:35 PM

sweet idea

linx · #8 09/04/2007, 05:06 PM

Thanks for the comments
Here are some pics of the support and the cover as promised.

The support of the aquarium

And the cover

It really looks nice but there is to much stuff in the garage to take good pics

I'm still waiting for the glass wich I hope will arrive soon...
Pleace keep the comments coming !

linx · #9 09/04/2007, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by samsfishnchips
I bet it will be great,

love that last pic, looks so cool,

oh and the tank will look great, I like the pieces of glass rather than the circle(round) of acrylic, which make things look distort

sam

It can get a bit hot when you are welding (about 2000°C)

in the center of the welding,
but you only feel some heat nothing to much because of the helmet
and other protections!

gasman059 · #10 09/04/2007, 08:13 PM

nice tagging along!

rharr21 · #11 09/04/2007, 08:40 PM

Awsome! Your tank is off to a great start! I wish I had the talent to build a tank from scratch.

Is that a fox pelt on the black chair in the first photo?

linx · #12 09/05/2007, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rharr21
Awsome! Your tank is off to a great start! I wish I had the talent to build a tank from scratch.

Is that a fox pelt on the black chair in the first photo?

Thank's, it's coming bit by bit. I heard that the glass should be ready
tomorrow or friday, so hopefully I can start building the aqarium during the weakend.

Yes it is my girlfrend's red fox she wears it during viking festivals.

vidrine7322 · #13 09/17/2007, 09:20 AM

Any updates?

linx · #14 09/21/2007, 05:01 PM

I've been in Spain the last week so not much has been happening here. Not like much would had been happening since the glass just arrived today, but I can pick it up tomorrow.

I forgot to write the measures of the tank, so here they are:
L. 47"
H. 27,5"
W. 25,5"

The lighting will be 2x250w mh and four T5, two white and two blue.

The skimmer will be Deltec ap600 and the calsiumreactor is Shuran jetstream 1000 if I remember correctly.

The flow will be crap to start with but will hopefully be fixed soon. I'll put some pictures soon of the progress.

samsfishnchips · #15 09/21/2007, 07:20 PM

spain, sweet, keep us up to date,

have fun,

sam

linx · #16 09/22/2007, 04:45 PM

Yebb Spain was sweet. 30°C and sunny, swimmingpool and beer

I went to pickup my glass today and the petshop decided to close at 13.00 instead of 16.00 so they where closed... Lucky me! But the supports for the tank and the lights are in place, so now I'm only missing the aquarium!

I made a concrete rockwork to pile the liverock on to reduce the toxic buildup under the liverock and it's been cycleing in seawater for about one and a half month now. The cycleing was going a bit slow so I took it out and scrubbed it in the shower, after that the ph was considerably lower.

My Indian ringneck, eager to help!

this is one half of the rockwork, the other half looks the same. I also have a small piece to make an island somewhere in the tank.

samsfishnchips · #17 09/22/2007, 08:15 PM

linx,

looking good

spain is one of my dreams, maybe one day...

sam

linx · #18 09/23/2007, 02:57 PM

We all like pics so here is a couble.
I found this speciment upside down
in a local petshop

06/02/07

08/03/07

It's now my biggest coral.

I'll post a pic of it in the new aquarium.

linx · #19 09/24/2007, 01:32 PM

samsfishnchips, thanks and yes you should try Spain.
I finally got my glass today and I started to silicone the tank togeather.
I recon it will take me two more days to finish it compleatly.

Hopefully I will be able to put up the tank during this weekend!

fishdoc11 · #20 09/24/2007, 03:33 PM

I didn't know you used terms like reckon in Iceland....heck most people in this country don't even say that

Very interesting tank build!

Chris

Serioussnaps · #21 09/24/2007, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fishdoc11
I didn't know you used terms like reckon in Iceland....heck most people in this country don't even say that
Very interesting tank build!

Chris

I reckon I'll have a drink to that. Half the yankees in the US look at me like I am sub-human when I use that word.

linx · #22 09/24/2007, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fishdoc11
I didn't know you used terms like reckon in Iceland....heck most people in this country don't even say that
Very interesting tank build!

Chris

Thank's it is my biggest overall creation so far, my biggest tank build was 250gal
But there I didn't make the supports.
Is this your catch on the avatar pic? it loks like a fish that could cut you in half!!!

Serioussnaps
I reckon I'll have a drink to that. Half the yankees in the US look at me like I am sub-human when I use that word.
And the other half are sub-humans like us!

rharr21 · #23 09/24/2007, 06:18 PM

The tank is looking great. I like the rock too. Keep the pictures coming.

fishdoc11 · #24 09/24/2007, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by linx
Is this your catch on the avatar pic? it loks like a fish that could cut you in half!!!

Yep that's a bull shark. They are pretty common in the Southeast here.....and unforunately they do eat people on occasion.

Good luck with the water test on the tank

Chris

wentreefgirl · #25 09/24/2007, 06:50 PM

I would love to hear you say reckon. It probably sound better then the southern twang. Oh, and beautiful work. And love your echopora lamellosa. WHat color will it end up i wonder.