290G Peninsula Tank

Ginu · #1 10-26-2012, 10:56 PM

Looks amazing and now the real fun part begins...

mseepman · #2 10-27-2012, 05:38 AM

Thanks for the great comments everyone! Moving closer each day!

Kevin, my wife is collecting boxes...we just haven't packed anything in them.

I promised some more pics...and here we go.

Here's a side shot of the cabinet where my overflow, plumbing, sink and LED control panels will end up. It's only partially done so far. You can see my plumbing from the fish room coming up from the bottom. That's the little bar sink which i will have available to save me from the wrath of my wife after using her kitchen sink for the last 7 years.

Here is a closer shot of the overflow:

Because they changed my stand design, I had to think quickly and have them pre-cut some holes for where I might place Vortecs or Tunzes on that wall of the tank.

And these little babies arrived the other day for my fish room. 100G each

michika · #3 10-30-2012, 01:57 PM

Tell me more about your 100g water containers. Do the black tops? come off? Are they stackable?

mseepman · #4 10-30-2012, 04:01 PM

The tops come off in two ways...If you look, you'll see a little break in the Handle on top...that is an "inner circle" that you can spin off, and then the large black circle is the "outer circle" that also comes off. They also have a bulkhead pre-installed on the bottom of the opposite side to my picture.

I don't think they are stackable...I got them from Corix and they are made in Vancouver. Really heavy duty. I was going for other ones from Andrew-Sherat but these were just way better built. Plus the shoulder of the tank allows me to put in some additional plumbing with uni-seals without having to worry about slopes (a straight spot to drill a hole)

They will sit side by side on the small stand you see at the back of my fish room in the pic below:

I wanted just enough rise that gravity would empty them. I plan to do a fully plumbed water change system to the sump which will sit on the stand to the left. There is also a dedicated drain over there in the floor that you can see (black pipe)

freezetyle · #5 10-31-2012, 02:51 AM

such attention to detail. The holes in the wood below your overflow are for MP40's i'm guessing?

Delphinus · #6 10-31-2012, 03:28 PM

How big are they? It's hard to get a sense of scale looking at them (actually what's really weird is the picture of your tank room, the wood grain makes it look like the inside of a tank stand - it's the other things like light switches and plugs that hint at it not being 30" from one side to the other

) .. but those tanks honestly don't look that much larger than my 2 50g barrels. That's awesome. When I looked into water storage I settled on 50g's because of space considerations and anything with more capacity was just way too big).

Edit: Are these them? http://www.premierplastics.com/utility.htm

mseepman · #7 11-06-2012, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaws

How much were the containers from Corix if you don't mind me asking?

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I'm loath to say that I'm not totally sure. I had some arranged from a Andrew-Sheret and then my builder got these (they were higher quality) from Corix. Retail I think they were about $150 each but I'm not sure what my wholesale price is yet...I haven't got the bill.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delphinus

How big are they? It's hard to get a sense of scale looking at them (actually what's really weird is the picture of your tank room, the wood grain makes it look like the inside of a tank stand - it's the other things like light switches and plugs that hint at it not being 30" from one side to the other

) .. but those tanks honestly don't look that much larger than my 2 50g barrels. That's awesome. When I looked into water storage I settled on 50g's because of space considerations and anything with more capacity was just way too big).

Edit: Are these them? http://www.premierplastics.com/utility.htm

These are each 100G tanks. As you can see in the picture below, they fit on my small stand well and still allow me to build something above them and make the most of my space. I couldn't figure a good method to stack them without making it tough to clean them when necessary.

I'm not sure if that's the original supplier. I will look again at the labels and get back to you on that. I can say that they are really built well.

Here's my sink setup in the fish room. I chose an Acrylic sink...hoping it won't discolor too much over time. I know my cabinet doesn't match but I keep reminding myself that this is a working room and looking pretty doesn't make it work any better.

Lastly, we got a little closer to working on the plumbing of the actual display but finishing a little more woodwork.

mseepman · #8 11-09-2012, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delphinus

How big are they? It's hard to get a sense of scale looking at them (actually what's really weird is the picture of your tank room, the wood grain makes it look like the inside of a tank stand - it's the other things like light switches and plugs that hint at it not being 30" from one side to the other

) .. but those tanks honestly don't look that much larger than my 2 50g barrels. That's awesome. When I looked into water storage I settled on 50g's because of space considerations and anything with more capacity was just way too big).

Edit: Are these them? http://www.premierplastics.com/utility.htm

Hey, I took this picture just for you!