Kraken's 166 Rectangle

[Kraken]

Hey guys!

Thought i'd post my build thread here and share my tank from the ground up with y'all. What was anticipated to be a simple tank setup, became a huge basement rennovation!

Here was the basic plan of the tank from AutoCad:



Its gunna be a 40"x40"x24" with bean animal overflow, as well as 2 returns on the sides that will be mounted on the euro brace if I decide to go that path (might decide on rimless). This will be 3 sided starfire glass.

Equipment as of now:

- Custom DIY Led's from my old tank
- Neptune Apex Controller to run my lights
- BK Mini 200
- Eheim 1262 for Return

Still need to get:

- Still deciding on Tunze Vs Ecotech powerheads (Had noise issues with my last vortech's)

- Lots of dry rock
- Designing Sump in the next few days.
- Dead sand (I do not want live sand)

Well thats all for now. Will update once I have some progress.

[Kraken]

Well here is the plan for now. And ive decided to extend the tank to 48" as it would probably look better (took goffebeans advise and used tape to see how everything would fit together. Realized it would look much better as a 48" x 35" x 24") Thanks for the tip!

Here are the pics.

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Well Just got back to Hong Kong from Korea.

Hectic trip. Level 10 typhoon landing scared the crap outta the passengers on the plane I was on and then waited 3 hours for a taxi due to the weather. On the way back to the hotel, we passed by 5 fallen trees and dodged many more branches at 3am...crazy night.

Anyhow! here are the photos of the tank.

Here are da pics:

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Well, just got the tank in my garage and will probably finish staining the stand today. Not sure if we are going to rip out the carpet yet so the tank will stay in the garage for now until we have decided.

Here are the goods:


Before the stand was finished


After the stand is finished. Just need to add doors. Still deciding one what style of doors I want =[



This tank was damn heavy! Not sure how we going to get it to the basement!

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Alright! So I have decided to rip out the old carpet and install laminate instead as the carpet is quite old (10~ 12 years).

Here are the pic's anyways!

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Well, I just ripped out the trim today, and these black spots are really scaring me. As I will be spending most of my days in the basement, I am afraid that this is mould, and will become a problem if not dealt with.

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Well, after pulling out the drywall, we saw that the back of the drywall had mould too. Mostly near the bottom, but we took care of it. Took it all out and replaced everything.

Here are the pics!

This was before the drywall:


Put a heater to the wall to try and kill any leftover residual mould spores.


This is after




Also got my old LED's remounted and rewired everything. Works well with my apex now. Tried it out with sunrise/sunset. Still working for the code for clouds and such.

Here it is!: