lastlight's 101 half cube

[lastlight]

Thanks everyone for compliments on the plans and kind words for my wife. She's kickin' butt. She's going to be home until Jan 5th, tumour is much smaller, lungs are rockin' and I gave her a killer haircut. All been good news lately.

Originally Posted by andestang

Great drawings Are you making your own stand again ?

Yeah definitely. I'd love to use white acrylic for the skin but I'm not sure how to do that having never worked with the stuff before. I don't think a glossy paint is going to cut it for me. My budget may force me to go the paint route tho.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Make sure you put tile over EVERYTHING. In fact even the white couches so that they'll match. Comfort? We don't need no steeeeken' COMFORT man. (Put it next to the badgers..)

Tile may still happen wiseass! I'd likely wreck a bunch of plexi...but a nice white marble or something would rock ass. Thx dude lol. I'm having dreams about a white marble that comes in 30x30 pieces...I need to see if that is possible!

Originally Posted by Lance

you could do the same thing with those killer sliding doors like on the old build

Those won't work because I want access to the whole top of the tank. The slides would mean maybe 20" of centered access but I want to access all 3 sides. I'm in the basement so I probably won't have a very high ceiling...but if I could have the canopy slide up into a recess on a lift...

Not budget friendly. Magnets on all 3 sides may be the answer if I go plexi. Tiles...no idea yet.

Originally Posted by Dez

I'll have to admit Brett, I'm quite disappointed that you didn't include pheasant balls as part of the decor, and the twigs in a vase thingamagic....

Although the rest looks sweet. Hurry up and sell your house already so I can drool over some real pics instead of fantasy google sketch pics

Google sketchup stinks. If I wasn't on a mac I'd fire up 3ds max or something and make it more pretty. I gace up on piping etc...I'm used to 4 viewports! And our house listed today and we had our first showing tonight! Still sitting here hoping we hear an offer...but it's a GOOD sign! Then it is ON.

Originally Posted by Funky_Fish14

I saw on the home page '94 cube' and thought wtf how did I miss this? Only to realise it was 'sizecreep' from the 70.

"Stand will be only 30" this time".... Lol! And weigh only 300lbs instead of 400?

That is the creep limit I promise you that. I have to make this tank budget proof or something. It needs to HAPPEN. The 18" height still sounds good but I want big colonies. Formosa Forest dreams have I.

Originally Posted by Palmer

+1 To the SWC skimmers

I really have no clue about skimmers. In choosing the skimmer and light for the last tank I basically asked myself which looked the best and was considered THE SHIZZ. This time around I'm asking myself what's pretty cheap and not too many people rag on. It's between the Vertex IN-100, Bubble Magus BM160 and the Octo Extreme 200. I'd likely get the BM160 but the other vendors I'm more familiar with...not sure yet.