Riceboy's new 82.7 one piece eurobrace starfire build

[riceboy]

Well its time for a new build and upgrade you've read it, its going to be a 1 piece starfire eurobrace tank and fully polished with three sides starfire and back of the tank will be black, and black silconed. After talking to most shops and other tank builders in town I have decided to go with CONCEPT AQUARIUMS since he gave me a smoking deal on the tank that no one even came close too . After talking to CONCEPT AQUARIUMS and telling him what i wanted this is the idea he had come up with:







CONCEPT AQUARIUMS had integrated a wavebox design onto either sides of the overflow and all i need to do is place my vortechs in there and there should be no powerheads visible in my tank ( which was the main thing i emphasized while talking to him). But instead of having a cube tank i had caved into getting this tank, which would be great for my yellow tang and blue tang to swim in . there will be 2 drain holes in the overflow and the middle hole will be used as an emergency drain if either one of the holes were to ever get clogged. The return on the tank will be on either sides of the tank as you can see in the pics.

CONCEPT AQUARIUMS had also designed a baller sump for me as well. When i brought him my design he knew it wasn't going to work so had compiled this up and i must say its a very well thought out design.

heres CONCEPT'S sump design:





I am very excited to get my tank and will be in a process of building a bonsai rock sculpture once i get my new tank set up.

[xblade]

Can't see the pics,but it sounds like a sweet setup.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by xblade

Can't see the pics,but it sounds like a sweet setup.

+1

[riceboy]

there sorry just fixed the images i think let me know if you have any problems seeing the pics, i will be posting pics of the tank once i get it. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks

[paddyob]

Wow....looks cool. This should be an interesting to follow.

When is the glass work done?

[riceboy]

hopefully in 2 weeks just need to give CONCEPT AQUARIUMS the dimensions of my skimmer and return pumps so he can adjust the sump accordingly. I must say the wave box integration is one of the smartest ideas i've ever seen and will keep all powerheads, good thing he came up with it cause i sure wouldn't have thought of it lol

[DCDN]

Looking forward to see this tank. Especially with how the wave box will turn out

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by riceboy

hopefully in 2 weeks just need to give CONCEPT AQUARIUMS the dimensions of my skimmer and return pumps so he can adjust the sump accordingly. I must say the wave box integration is one of the smartest ideas i've ever seen and will keep all powerheads, good thing he came up with it cause i sure wouldn't have thought of it lol

So how do you prevent your fish from entering the power head chambers? They would never get out if they made it in there.

[riceboy]

i'll be using eggcrate in front of the holes

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by riceboy

I am very excited to get my tank and will be in a process of building a bonsai rock sculpture once i get my new tank set up.

Take my question with a grain of salt as no disrespect meant....

I am wondering... what is the attraction to bonsai? I have seen a few in pics and have never really cared for the look. Just does not look natural to me.