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Old 03-23-2009, 09:17 PM
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Wow...I never thought I'd see the day that you showed back up here! WB Dez!
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I think I officially have to have water in a tank to be officially back. Right now I have to commit before my wife changes her mind. It's good to be back, and hopefully I'll be in the market for livestock before next winter!
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:46 PM
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I would have taken the Mini (provided it wasn't a Clubman), and found a way to make a tank work too. I love Minis!
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Old 03-24-2009, 03:16 AM
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I would have taken the Mini (provided it wasn't a Clubman), and found a way to make a tank work too. I love Minis!
Seeing that I already have a Mini and that another mini takes up less room to store than a fish tank, I opted to go with the fish tank. I'm still working on getting permission for another Mini though.
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Old 03-24-2009, 04:22 AM
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its going to be a nice setup! keep the pics coming!
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Old 03-24-2009, 04:50 PM
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Here is a bit of a conceptual drawing as to what the picture frame side of the tank will look like. The top panel of the picture frame will be hinged so that I can feed/aquascape/access from this side.




Here is what the tank will look like from top view. I'm not sure what to do with the stand/canopy yet. Most likely the stand will come 8" past the tank on both sides to cover the overflow box and also cover plumbing so that I can run plumbing up the tank opposite side of the overflow. So it will now become a 2 side viewable tank. My wife thought that having the stand semetrical on both sides would look better. This gives me more options anyway.

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Old 03-24-2009, 04:56 PM
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Here's another view from my Den side. As you can see, 7" of the tank is actually resting on the wall itself. So only 17" of the tank will stick out into the Den side.

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Old 03-26-2009, 02:23 AM
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There's a little bit more progress on my tank. Thanks to a fellow Canreef member, I traded some 1/4" glass for 3/8" scrap glass so that I can make my overflow box. Maybe that will happen this weekend, the glass needs to be cleaned thoroughly though.

Harvey came over tonight and sprayed water for me while I cut the center brace of my tank. I'm quite pleased with the results, it needs some sanding and it should be pretty. Thanks Harv.

Here are the pictures of final product. Yeah, now we can have more light penetration into the tank.

I am now debating whether to take all the trim off of the whole tank or to leave it on. Any suggestions? The advantage of taking all the black plastic trim off is that my moulding can be flush to the tank itself and the canopy can be flush to the tank. What do you think?



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Old 11-09-2009, 05:35 AM
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I would have taken the Mini (provided it wasn't a Clubman), and found a way to make a tank work too. I love Minis!
I made this work too . I have 2 minis and a tank now. This quote was from March too...man, time flies quickly.
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