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Our New Top Down Tank
Alright, so this is going to be a project thread for our new tank. We are from Brandon Manitoba and recently moved to Calgary. Before we moved, i contacted Concept and had them build us a 24"x24"x10" 25 gallon tank which will be mainly a top down tank. Before we left, we built the stand for the tank and just crossed our fingers that the tank fit! So here is the stand in progress.
http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690050 http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690078 and here it is all painted up http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690114 aaaaaaaaand here is that "tank" we are working with until the actual tank is up! http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690151 thats it for now! more to come tomorrow |
The stand looks great! (I'm a painter myself and appreciate quality work)
I like the "custom" light mounting fixture too :wink: Francis |
Looking good! I love the ghetto "tank" LOL
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and Kien, you cant tell me you never ran a rubbermaid as a temp tank?! haha so we got the tank from Denny, and it looked amazing! so we just had to cross our fingers that the tank fit on the stand. Here she is, it fit! http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690265 http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690337 it has a centre overflow with dual returns. We picked up some loc-line for the returns http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373690301 thats it for now! more to come soon |
Slick looking little top down. Love the light hanger too! I'm going to assume you don't have kids or cats? If you do you've got more guts than me lol.
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http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373767587 http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373767550 i love the way it turned out. Matched up the back panel with the bottom quite nicely |
Love the black bottom dude looks clean as hell :) build looks killer def following along :) will you get er filled this week?:)
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ya Denny i love the black bottom! and yep! tank should have water in it today! For now i have a bit of an update! got the plumbing done for the return. Here is the split to the 2 returns
http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373864317 before i could finish the plumbing i had to pick up a sump. Because of the small foot print of the stand, it made it a bit difficult to find one to fit, but then i found one locally that worked perfectly! Its a Aqueon Proflex Model 1 sump. http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4ca18132.jpg sooooo that allowed me to finish the plumbing. Then i had to tackle the stand for the light. Because we are renting our house, i didnt want to drill into the wall, and i didnt want the light hanger kit coming down from the 11' roof, so i had to make it a part of the stand so its all one unit. Our house has kind of an industrial feel to it so i decided to go with galvanized steel and paint it black. here is what i came up with http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373908964 http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373908934 http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373908899 and here it is with the Radion on it! http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1373909949 thats it for now! more to come soon |
Love it! I have a look down tank myself, and its my favorite one. Wondering why you went with a eurobrace? On such a shallow tank I would have thought it wouldn't be necessary?
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Looking good . Nice job on the light bracket , fits in well with the brick wall behind.
painted black bottom is neet too . Im guessing your are going bare bottom then ? |
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