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Originally Posted by Delphinus

"Not so budget" That's awesome!

Should be great little project, can't wait to see more.

I honestly thought(before I got serious and started really planning and gathering equipment) that I could do it for a couple hundred bucks....and if it wernt for the need for a bigger skimmer it probably could have been done for about that much.

I have to admit that I am farther along than the thread reveals....I was lazy starting this thread, so I am playing catch up

The tank I got free...literally from the alley....its wasnt a coincidence....Mikey(El Gauppo) recently moved and left the tank in the alley where he used to live....it spent a couple weeks back there, before I went and got it(leak tested it in the tub and it still holds water(I hope)). I waffled back and forth about grabbing it because Mikey had painted the back of the tank blue and this wouldnt work for my plans.....so it was like...."spend a couple hours scraping the back of the tank" or "just go and buy a new one for $60"..... Im cheap, so scrape the tank it is.


The add-on will go beside the main system (where the speaker is now) peninsula style.


The longer and wider sump meant that all the products and other crap that you see in and around the sump in the picture above, needed to find a new home... so....(this makes the g/f happy)



Heres the tank before scraping and clean up (which only took an hour)


then I punched three holes in it (middle hole is the return, outside holes are for a herbie style drain)