KrazyKuch's & Michika's 180Gal Tank Build

[KrazyKuch]

Well we just picked up our glass from Bow Valley Aquarium, and I have to say wow what great service, we placed the order this afternoon and when we came to pick it up at 4:30 they were just finishing cutting it up, they loaded it into the back of our truck for us. Even gave us some good pointers on how to clean the glass and the best way to go about putting it together.

The tank is 72"X24"X24" (standard 180Gal) All the glass is 1/2" thick, we are gonna set it up as a FOWLR but latter converting to a Mixed Reef..

Here is the tank sitting on my floor.


Here is a side view of the stack of glass.(the piece on the left is the center brace)


Close up of the side shot.


Shot of part of the top Bracing.



Thats all for tonight, tomorrow gonna build some jigs and buy some clamps and gonna start assembling the tank, will post more pics tomorrow of progress!

[Glennrf38]

Just a question... Why didn't you have them put it together for you?

[michika]

Cheaper for us to do it ourselves! We've built tanks before so its no big deal for us.

[Glennrf38]

Kewl. Thats what I figured but just wanted to make sure

[Delphinus]

Good luck with the build!

[justinl]

Cool. I built my acrylic 60g and i found that to be a really fun project. I might try my hand at a glass tank come this summer. Do you think you could post some details/tips about how you like to silicone your tanks together?

[michika]

Mounted another cap on the glass. I'm hoping it will thrive here and free up some much needed space on the rockwork.

[michika]

We ordered an ozonizer for Tibet, our big tank, it arrived yesterday and we immediately put it into use on the 180g.

Our skimmer pumps on our Octopus have both crapped out. One is done for good and the other is limping along. The loss of the one pump is significant and has slowed skimmate production.

We are going to run our new skimmer for the big tank on the 180g until we move everything to Tibet. While I can semi-justify the purchase of replacement pumps, I just don't see the need when we have a perfectly good backup skimmer sitting around.

A few corals still aren't recovering well from the bad carbon incident. I still have a few that have bleached or have burnt type tips. I'm hoping with some extra vigilance things will be back to normal soon.

I'm still battling majanos daily and am somewhat at the point where I'm thinking I'll just remove the display rock and cook it. This is a battle that I'm tired of fighting. At least none of the sump rock has any.

Trials and tribulations eh?

[michika]

They're available now and I'd say $20 each, or if you take them all I'll cut you a deal.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by michika

They're available now and I'd say $20 each, or if you take them all I'll cut you a deal.

I will take them all, as I have been looking for some of these and need 5 . So a couple extra won't hurt.