Some of those cool kids never budget their builds for fish and corals though :razz:

hmm, that strategy had never occurred to me.. brilliant! :biggrin: Who needs fish and corals when you can just sit there and watch your Vortech swoosh your water back and forth :-) Throw in some neon beads and you've really got a show!

- No heat transfer to the tank
- smaller footprint
- Provdes water FLOW vs Overpowering Jet of water. :lol:

Worth the money in my mind.


You got sweet SPS, you can still sit at the cool kids table. :smilecol:

Since you asked nicely, here you go :-) (do excuse the white balance. There are 4 sources of light in that room and all 4 are a different colour temperature :lol:)

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1262503331

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1262503438

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1262503497

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1262503519

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1262503542

Need to paint the stand then plumb when I get back from Mexico. I suppose I could just take a page from Josh's book and just leave it all raw like :-)

Looks awesome.. My stand won't be raw forever!

Looks good Kien...and and now for the fun part (at least for me)...plumbing and then aquascaping....Im envious of the "new tank high" you must be on....

looking good buddy. skin that stand before you put water in, if i could change one thing about my start up that would be it

What made you choose that location for the return? Why not also in other corners/locations? Looks really sweet I'm anxious to see more!

I think a single pendant somewhere near the center (with most corals under it) would be so cool. The light falloff would look killer I think.

Ya, I plan on sealing it and painting it before putting any water it. If its one thing I´ve learned from my other stand its that saltwater and wood don´t mix. It is so nice to be able to wipe salt water off of a finished surface rather than raw wood.

Just preference. I didn´t want any hardware at that side of the tank and I didn´t want to run any pipes behind or above this tank this time around. So <I´m playing around with having all pipes inside the tank and see how it goes. This tank wasn´t originally planned out to be a display tank. It was not supposed to be all that pretty :-)

Seeing all these shallows tanks has me pondering haha... I'm definitely gonna follow this one