Brentling's 125 Startup Thread - Lots o' Pics
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I will try to post some pics ASAP. Sorry for no updates lately. I was out of town for a couple of weeks. I got an Eheim 2217 Canister Filter for Christmas, but the canister part was shattered in shipping, apparently, so I have not installed it. The plan was to take pics right before flooding the tank, then right after for a nice, meaty update, but I am still waiting on the replacement part.
Of interest, I discovered that I have a fish living in the tank that I did not put there! I moved a couple of plants (crypts) from my 10 gallon tank where I have some killifish growing out. Apparently, an egg or tiny fry was with the crypts and has been in the tank for the whole time. Since I have never placed food in the tank (at least 2 months) I am amazed that the little guy was alive at all. I now feed him and pay some attention. The water level is very low right now because I was trying to "dry" things out to cause some algae to die off on the HC, but the fish seems OK with things and stays in the "deepest" part of the tank (about 1 inch).
Hopefully, the replacement part will be here today or tomorrow and I can flood the tank.
its good to have a large tank!!! Keep us updated!! can't wait to see the tank when it is complete!!
On the guess that you haven't hung the lights yet (since we haven't seen a picture yet), I figured I'd offer what I did when I hung my lights over my tank.
I took some 1/2" angle aluminum (you can get it from Home Depot or Lowes) and built a frame to hold my 36" corallife lamps and my LED moonlights.
I cut the angle aluminum and dry-fit the frame, then drilled out a hole in each corner. I put a threaded eye-bolt through the hole and put a nut on the bottom to hold it. I hindsight I probably would have put a nut on the eyebolt both above and below the aluminum, to really get it snug and rigid.
Anyway, now you've got a perfectly sized frame to drop your light fixture into. Envision the whole thing like you're building a drop ceiling to put a light fixture into (like in an office).
On mine I made a second, smaller channel, put in some frosted plastic (a diffuser for fluorescent lights that I cut to fit) and put my LED moonlights on top.
Hang the whole contraption from the ceiling using some chain or wire / cable, and you're good to go.
I can take a picture tonight and post it if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Great tank design, by the way.
I took some 1/2" angle aluminum (you can get it from Home Depot or Lowes) and built a frame to hold my 36" corallife lamps and my LED moonlights.
I cut the angle aluminum and dry-fit the frame, then drilled out a hole in each corner. I put a threaded eye-bolt through the hole and put a nut on the bottom to hold it. I hindsight I probably would have put a nut on the eyebolt both above and below the aluminum, to really get it snug and rigid.
Anyway, now you've got a perfectly sized frame to drop your light fixture into. Envision the whole thing like you're building a drop ceiling to put a light fixture into (like in an office).
On mine I made a second, smaller channel, put in some frosted plastic (a diffuser for fluorescent lights that I cut to fit) and put my LED moonlights on top.
Hang the whole contraption from the ceiling using some chain or wire / cable, and you're good to go.
I can take a picture tonight and post it if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Great tank design, by the way.
