Asmodeus's 8 footer New pictures for Lance

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by kien

Ikea.

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

[kien]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

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

You could maybe stack a couple of base cabinets?

[doobiej]

im definately as curious as Grizz about the overflow on this one. I have a 96Lx24Hx22W and chose a full 8 foot coast to coast overflow to maximize surface skimming. I am happy with my setup, although it does take up some room internally, so I too am curious to see if a much smaller overflow design will keep up with removing nutrients from such a big tank. please post some pics your feedback when you get it running. other than that, nice tank! After a year of running my 8 footer I am already wanting a 10.

[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!!!!!!!!!!

[hillegom]

comming along nicely.
I didn't know you could straighten out wood with the iron! Interesting.

[Skimmerking]

TIME TO HEAT THIS BAD BOY UP.....


SOME FINE TUNING AND A HAPPY HELPER.

i'M TRYING TO CONVERT HIM TO salt water, he was big in to fish in the past.









This I got to thinking About a shelf for the Deltec 702, Hmmmmmmmmmm

Well watch this.
MEASURE 10 times


ok one pic's for LAST LIGHT since he is so SWELL.

A Little bit of this and that...

Not Bad eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skimmerking]

This is the 2 cabinets that were made.. Im going to have 1 complete door for the small one 78"x15" and 2 doors for the right cabinet 78"x36" and I will put a kick plate on them too

[lastlight]

Dude that is so softcore. There's no real contact happening wth?

Other than that I'm liking what I see. My canopy is just going to be a 2x4 framework above my tank but tied into my joists. Then I'll worry about skinning it. Not sure you can get away with something that crude or not.

[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