So I found a tank on craigslist and couldn't pass the offer up. I decided to share the building of the tank with you folks.
I got a 125gal long, a shifty pine stand, an eshopps sumps, and a 1000gph return pump.
He's a pic of the tank and stand yesterday morning when I picked it up.
As you can I had a ton of work cleaning this beast out. Apparently the guy was breeding blue tangs in this before he tore it down. I dont think it was taken care of very well. The coralline algae was insane. I went through 2.5 gallons of vinegar, a 27 year old back, and 5 hours of scrapping and scrubbing to get this bad boy cleaned.
The stand is made of pine and to be honest I dont know if I trust it supporting the tank. I'm going to try and reinforce it, but if worse comes to worse I may have a new one built.
Here's a pic of the tank and stand half way through the cleaning/refinishing stage.
My wife little to her knowledge bought me a new palm sander for valentines day. That helped with the stand quite a bit.
I started working on this at about 9am saturday morning. At about 630pm I finished up. The stand is only primed but it's a start.
This project is accomponied by a remodel of the formal dinner room into a library/fishroom.
This is the room:
And a sketch of what it will look like. We have a custom cabinet maker coming this morning actually to take final measurements.
All in all this should be an awesome build. It will take a while to complete but I'll update as I get this accomplished along the way.
Thanks for reading!
kajshd
I got a 125gal long, a shifty pine stand, an eshopps sumps, and a 1000gph return pump.
He's a pic of the tank and stand yesterday morning when I picked it up.
As you can I had a ton of work cleaning this beast out. Apparently the guy was breeding blue tangs in this before he tore it down. I dont think it was taken care of very well. The coralline algae was insane. I went through 2.5 gallons of vinegar, a 27 year old back, and 5 hours of scrapping and scrubbing to get this bad boy cleaned.
The stand is made of pine and to be honest I dont know if I trust it supporting the tank. I'm going to try and reinforce it, but if worse comes to worse I may have a new one built.
Here's a pic of the tank and stand half way through the cleaning/refinishing stage.
My wife little to her knowledge bought me a new palm sander for valentines day. That helped with the stand quite a bit.
I started working on this at about 9am saturday morning. At about 630pm I finished up. The stand is only primed but it's a start.
This project is accomponied by a remodel of the formal dinner room into a library/fishroom.
This is the room:
And a sketch of what it will look like. We have a custom cabinet maker coming this morning actually to take final measurements.
All in all this should be an awesome build. It will take a while to complete but I'll update as I get this accomplished along the way.
Thanks for reading!
kajshd
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