Asmodeus's 8 footer New pictures for Lance

[Skimmerking]

Its OK Grizz no worries I like them that way then I get way more area to have for the fishies. I used it on my last tank that is currently running the 150 and its has been going great for 2 years. less is good in a long tank/ and it worked the best with the design that i built

[Skimmerking]

Well an update of the stand went to home depot to get a price on the cabinets and OMFG. $7600 for the cabinets around the tank. looks like that i'm going another route for the cabinets tank on hold til i can figure this one out . sorry folks. I have them looking for a less price in the 15-2000 range..

[kien]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Well an update of the stand went to home depot to get a price on the cabinets and OMFG. $7600 for the cabinets around the tank. looks like that i'm going another route for the cabinets tank on hold til i can figure this one out . sorry folks.

Ikea.

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by kien

Ikea.

I tried that Kien i need a 36x24x83 tower and i never saw one and a 12x24x83

[Skimmerking]

Ok so I bought the Wood for the stand I'm going to be going with Birch. Thought that i would try something different. Got together with my buddy who is allowing me to use his shop. Came up with a plan and a drawing He would let me use the shop unless I had a vision in my head and something on paper. He knows me to good. The Stand will have access through the front however I will be using Rare earth magnets to hold the front on plus to latches for safety. I'm going to be having a feed door on the left side so im not always in the top Hmmmmmmmmmm like that is going to stop me. The stand will 78" high and then 4" piece of crown molding shelf lick will be on the top.

I'm hoping to have this stand done by end of the month. The Reason I placed my order for 5 Small yellow tangs, 1 chevron tang, and a Tommi Tang. So I want to have them in the tank before I add (LIPS AKA sailfin)
and (@ss AKA KOLE) and well LULU she just don't care and man she is getting fat close to 1.5" fat and 5"

I'm going to paint the inside of the hood white with bathroom to seal it. and its going to be stained on the outside just haven't figured out what.

Well I will have build pictures tomorrow

[Skimmerking]

Well Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy I got some progress done on the stand well Cabinets. tried to take some pictures of as myself and Dwayne a good friend of mine as we were working. So I hope these are good enough. So far I bought 6 sheets of 4x8 Birch and end roll to mask the ends of Birch. I'm still having the dilemma of the canopy since the top is going to be huge 8 feet long I'm going to run 1.5" strips all the way down underneath the top of the cabinet to stop it from bowing. the doors will be 2x48 so its alot easier to take off that attach to the Magnets. " SO HOW ABOUT I SHUT UP AND SHOW YOU THE PROGRESS....



here is the wood sitting here. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WOOD!!!!


Some of the corners sorry forgot to take some build pic's of the tower oooops


and some more



This is the inside of the right tower where i will need to seal with a White Bathroom paint for high humidity. See I'm a thinking ahead already....

ME SMRT SMART


TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
The right Cabinet where all the equipment will be. like the
Sump. Skimmer, Kalk Reactor. you get the drift.


Well for Poon Tang here ya go man..

ACTION SHOT.

Is it real yup taste like BIRCH.



Now on to the Front, to SKIN OR NOT TO SKIN, THAT IS THE QUESTION!!!!!!!.




what biscuit TIME OMG
HEY JUST WAIT A FRIGGIN MINUTE HERE THIS AIN'T NO BISCUIT WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!!!!

[Skimmerking]

Made some progress on the wood, here is a few shots so far/.....

Going with the mission style I like it simple. going to stain with a walnut stain. now is here is problem. I have to wait 2 weeks for the birch wood to come in to make the doors. However Dwayne showed me some maple that i can mix with it so i stained them both and I will get you a pic uploaded so you can see the difference. the maple is a bite lighter, however I can do another coat or 2 on it.


Here is the 15" shelf tower with adjusting shelves I will be cutting out a feeding hole and a Vortech hole so I can move the powerhead around.

Looking down this baby is 12' 3" long and 83" high


looking at the front


here is a size comparsion for ya. I think it's turning out pretty good so far.

I'm hoping to stain the whole stand by this weekend and caulk around the seams in the right tower where the sump and Skimmer is going to be. may be next week to start filling it

[Skimmerking]

Well I was playing with the Rocks to see on what I can get sorted out before getting the stand home here tonight I hope waiting on a Phone call from my Buddy to get it out of his shop. so I was playing with some of the rocks and added some more Wet Stuff Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WATER.






I added some sand from the other tank and glad to take out the 2 platform pieces of rock. they were full of Red turf so now they are in the Sump ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...

[Skimmerking]

Well I spent the day staining and let me tell you people. never again I hate it i feel so Stoned on fumes great if I was in BC lol.

ok shere is what I have so far the Doors have not be started yet... I put a stopper so far. I bought 3 ICE Pendants from a guy in IOWA on RC for $300 shipped and they are 6 months old so I couldn't pass it up.

Ok SO I remember Snappy did the same thing well If Snappy can do I can do it.

I can't believe that I'm doing this again should have stuck with the 150 Omg


DAM GLUE

Thank god Its up going to run the tiles in a diamond Row so they will push out 33 1/4 " from the tank.

Ok well I can't stop now I need something else to do Hmmmmmmmmmm

ok
Need to run the RO/DI Line to the Sump for my top off. thank god for drop ceilings

nice build in Shelf for the Skimmer and the Kalk Reactor. Im going to seal it so If I get a over flow it will hold it. But come on Its a DELTEC.


This is what it looks like stained TAAAAa DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


How about from this Angle BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[SmallFry]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Well an update of the stand went to home depot to get a price on the cabinets and OMFG. $7600 for the cabinets around the tank. looks like that i'm going another route for the cabinets tank on hold til i can figure this one out . sorry folks. I have them looking for a less price in the 15-2000 range..

That is insane - was that for just the doors or cabinets too? Have you tried some of other builders merchants in town? Most of them do kitchen stuff too, and I've never seen a house we built get a kitchen, or pretty much anything else for that matter, from home depot. Maybe their consumer friendliness comes at a price?

There has to be a way of doing it cheaper if that fails. You/we could make doors cheaper if we went for something like a plywood door with a wood trim around the edge (and you could have your custom sizes that way too).. Would be more of the Ikea type look, but you could make it 'pop' a bit with a different colour of wood for the trim; something like that computer table I have if you remember it. Bubinga (expensive) or Mahogany (less so) would stand out nicely if you're going for a light wood for the main part - and you can stand the pink dust when you sand it...

A suggested already, Ikea itself may also be a viable option even if you have to go and get it - I don't remember their stuff being that expensive and I have a soft spot for Ikea. Would be well worth a look at their website. It's also worth noting that the American Ikea seems from the websites to have a better range of stuff than the Canadian one. Don't know where the nearest American store is though. I think the nearest Canadian one is Calgary until they build that one in Winnipeg...

Finally, there's a Hutterite colony somewhere that does kitchen cabinets, I'll see if I can do some finding out...

Rob.