borns 125G

born · #1 02-21-2011, 06:36 AM

Stand is built. Its really heavy duty and can definitely hold the weight of everything in the tank. I lucked out though, by making a 30" wide tank, the stand is 31" wide or somewhere around there. I didn't think to myself that I should have measured to see how big my doorway is to the room where this tank is going before hand. Luckily the doorway is about 31.5" wide and the stand is half an inch less then the doorway. So I am able to just barely squeeze the stand into the room. Or else I would have had to shaven off some of the doorway or something.

born · #2 03-15-2011, 10:05 PM

Got the tank set up on plywood, and bought a 48" Odyssea Light Fixture with 2x250wMH and 4x64w actinic's. with i believe 14k pheonix bulbs.

Finished the sump, just waiting for the silicone to dry.

Last thing to do is plumbing

Leah · #3 03-16-2011, 12:07 AM

Where is your GFI???

born · #4 03-16-2011, 12:28 AM

I was told that you dont really need a GFI or GFCI.
The only thing I have is a grounding probe that Im going to stick into my sump.

born · #5 03-21-2011, 04:02 AM

Plumbing is done just waiting for everything to dry. Does anyone know where to find 1inch lock lines?

apex82 · #6 03-21-2011, 06:52 AM

Wow... nice build. Looks really slick. Do you mind telling me how much the tank was? You can pm if prefered. That is exactly what I was thinking about upgrading to from my 75.

#7 03-21-2011, 10:19 PM

I believe the electrical code states that you have to have either a GFI breaker or a GFI plug in if there will be water within 1 m of a outlet. I maybe wrong but I believe in being safe rather than sorry latter.

Bill