Tank Design ideas

Hardly wait to see when its done! Thats going to be an awsome
looking tank!
 
A modified 75 gallon that had the top trim removed and then I glued the glass slats on.

It has a Wet/dry, about 4-5 inches of onyx, CO2 etc and electronic Blue line ballast for the MH's which I use 4300K temps.

The yellow color is less harsh than the 6500 or the 5500K temps and match well with the adjacent lighting better and the bulbs are 1/3 the cost ans available locally like the wood, plants, rocks and fish etc.
Everything will be from the area except the filter/gravel etc.

Regards,
Tom Barr
 
You're lucky you have all that material locally. It would cost a fortune to find knees like that in New Jersey. Or petrified wood for that matter.
Len
 
I had a question about why you are going to use a wet/dry on this setup? I'm assuming that you will have to add alot more CO2 to compensate for the loss through airation in the wet/dry. Am I right? I thought most people who did serious plant tanks don't do wet/dry's? Am I wrong? Especially with a 75 gal (which I plan to get), it shouldn't be difficult to use say two canisters. I have noticed you said you had an overflow in this aquarium, so maybe that's the reason for wet/dry?

Anyways, it looks like a beautiful, unique setup and hope it gives you much pleasure.;)
 
Tom, what type of return are you going to implement from the wet-dry?
I'm finally setting up a 120 (24x48x24) with similar equipment (MH with e-ballasts, wet-dry, CO2 including one of your reactors!).

I'm thinking of a spraybar for a return placed near bottom along back (see below). the return would come over top lip of tank with pvc elbows, go down towards the bottom of tank, and then 'T' into a spraybar with caps on both ends

______________________ top of tank
..............||
..............||
..............|| return going down into a 'T' to the spraybar
..............||
....______||__________
....| ________________| spraybar (capped on both ends)

_______________________bottom of tank


How close to bottom would you place it, or do you like a different type of return

Thanks...Mark
 
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I really think the cypress 1 has a promising outcome, not that the others dont, but I would go with that layout.

you could cover the really tall sticks with a lot of anubnias sp. and crypt sp. and the like. Let the plants run wild all over the longs. the ground could have grass at the base of the logs and gloss as a carpet...

just looks like a good idea to me.

although you could use the skinny sticks and hang spanish moss from them, giving it a feal of a marsh or something. get some archer fish and then flightless flies...or something...not that archers can thrive in freshwater...

anyways. good stuff.
 
Didn't mean to post a question above without commenting on yours!

I like the cypress 4 setup. Just saw Lord of the Rings - Two Towers. The monolithic look of craggy mountains in the cypress 4 design reminds me of several parts of that movie fantasy.
 
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