d2mini
Reef enthusiast
Well, since my other thread failed miserably, I decided to start fresh so people didn't have to wait through 20 pages of muck before finally seeing anything substantial. Hopefully this thread won't turn into the utter travesty as well. :mrgreen:
SO.... let's recap... shall we?
Here's my original design for the tank and stand.
I designed the stand to match our kitchen cabinets/backsplash.
We have an open floor plan and the tank will be near the kitchen. Here's a shot of our kitchen.
The backsplash is back-painted glass.
So I had an inset section built around the top of the stand that will allow me to apply some acrylic treated in the same fashion to give me a similar look.
It'll just add a little touch of extra sumfin-sumfin to the stand.
And here is where the stand is going... right where my wife had some useless chairs/tables/area rug. :nanananan
So I had the stand build bike a local reefer who is starting to do wood working projects on the side. He did a fantastic job.
It was his idea to do single large panel doors with no hardware instead of the split doors on my design.
We did doors on 3 sides and I left one side solid because I knew I'd want one wall to hang stuff on the inside. The acrylic strips will be one of the last things i do.
The Maté tea bottle is for scale. :mrgreen:
I decided to go with one of the new i-Tech skimmers from the owner of FISH and other ICHTHY stuff in Florida. Check out their forums for more info.
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I went with the i-Tech 200 after speaking with the owner.
Other equipment has been trickeling in. One thing I'm excited about is the two Vortech MP40w powerheads and backup battery.
For this build I decided to buy these two American DJ power centers.
They are really inexpensive and will allow me to easily turn on or off any piece of equipment with the flick of a switch instead of searching for a plug and physically unplugging it.
Here's the power centers installed in the stand. I also layed down some cork on the floor and installed a fluorescent grow light on the ceiling.
At first I was just looking for a light that would let me see inside the stand, but then I found this one and I'm wondering if the light will be enough to grow some macro algae in the fuge.
The square on the cork in the back corner is room lighting coming into the stand from the hole that is cut in the top to allow for my plumbing.
You can see how I mounted the power centers.
And I ran a power line from the nearest wall outlet that I tapped into and ran it into the base of the stand and then up the wall and (seen in the previous pic) over to this outlet.
So this outlet is where all my power comes from and it supplies the two power centers.
SO.... let's recap... shall we?
Here's my original design for the tank and stand.
I designed the stand to match our kitchen cabinets/backsplash.
We have an open floor plan and the tank will be near the kitchen. Here's a shot of our kitchen.
The backsplash is back-painted glass.
So I had an inset section built around the top of the stand that will allow me to apply some acrylic treated in the same fashion to give me a similar look.
It'll just add a little touch of extra sumfin-sumfin to the stand.
And here is where the stand is going... right where my wife had some useless chairs/tables/area rug. :nanananan
So I had the stand build bike a local reefer who is starting to do wood working projects on the side. He did a fantastic job.
It was his idea to do single large panel doors with no hardware instead of the split doors on my design.
We did doors on 3 sides and I left one side solid because I knew I'd want one wall to hang stuff on the inside. The acrylic strips will be one of the last things i do.
The Maté tea bottle is for scale. :mrgreen:
I decided to go with one of the new i-Tech skimmers from the owner of FISH and other ICHTHY stuff in Florida. Check out their forums for more info.
i-Tech Forums - Powered by vBulletin
I went with the i-Tech 200 after speaking with the owner.
Other equipment has been trickeling in. One thing I'm excited about is the two Vortech MP40w powerheads and backup battery.
For this build I decided to buy these two American DJ power centers.
They are really inexpensive and will allow me to easily turn on or off any piece of equipment with the flick of a switch instead of searching for a plug and physically unplugging it.
Here's the power centers installed in the stand. I also layed down some cork on the floor and installed a fluorescent grow light on the ceiling.
At first I was just looking for a light that would let me see inside the stand, but then I found this one and I'm wondering if the light will be enough to grow some macro algae in the fuge.
The square on the cork in the back corner is room lighting coming into the stand from the hole that is cut in the top to allow for my plumbing.
You can see how I mounted the power centers.
And I ran a power line from the nearest wall outlet that I tapped into and ran it into the base of the stand and then up the wall and (seen in the previous pic) over to this outlet.
So this outlet is where all my power comes from and it supplies the two power centers.
