Ghetto Reef **Update**

[Murminator]

Well after a few months "Project Ghetto Reef" is almost ready for fish a coral. It started out as a quarintine tank in the 5' crawl space of my house and kinda took off from there.
I wanted to see how cheap I could build a reef with everything purchased from Canreef I came up a little short ghetto stand from wood I had and a heater from Big Als boxing day sale.
So far the tally goes:

- 29g, Live sand, 1# rock & 2# rock covered in 75 zoos..$30 (Thanks Harveys friend Kaygen)
- 400w MH... free (Thanks Rich)
- 20# Live rock... $80 (Thanks Russ)
- 2 Powerheads... $18 (Thanks Dez)
- 500AC filter... $10 (Thanks Vic)
- Prizim Skimmer... $15 (Thanks Vic)
- 10k Bulb... $55 Aquaria.ca (Thanks Rich for ordering in for me)
- 150w Heater B.A...$20
- Misl wood kicking around from other projects...free
- Loving wife who can't figure out why I would put a tank there....priceless..(and she's standing behind me .. Hi Dear)

Total $228

...And the quarintine tank
- 5g....free (Thanks Rich)
- 12" PC light strip...$20 (Thanks Dez)
- Heater and powerhead I had

Everytime I meet someone they have a story had cheap they set up tanks whether it's glass, equipment or livestock tag on and share
Now the pics









I recently lost all in progress pics due to spyware and having to reformat

Now to fill it if anyone has frags or fishy's to sell PM me

[mr_alberta]

Looking good Murray! That rock looks awfully familiar.....

[Renegade]

looks good, now you can hide from the wife in the crawl space, TV and a little fridge and your set. lol

kyle

[muck]

I wish I had a crawl space.

[Tarolisol]

Nice job, and quite cheap. I did my 210g for only 2000. which i think is cheap for how big it is but far from 200.

[Richer]

When that tank is overgrown with corals... remember me as one of the people who made it possible .

I wish I could say I spent that much on my 33g setup... Just the lights themselves costed me around 300 bucks .

Looks good, keep us posted on your progress

-Rich

[Murminator]

Originally Posted by muck

I wish I had a crawl space.

You can come over a play in mine and there is a fully stocked bar fridge under there.....its the back side though ......thinking of turning it around...the bar can look at the back of it for a while.
P.S Thanks for the kind words
Don't forget to post your cheap stories.

[muck]

Originally Posted by Murminator

You can come over a play in mine and there is a fully stocked bar fridge under there.....its the back side though ......thinking of turning it around...the bar can look at the back of it for a while.

Can you fab a small door into the back of it..??

[albert_dao]

You should name that reef.

[Murminator]

Little update

Man getting pretty full ....I need a bigger tank !!!!

http://media.putfile.com/ghetto-2

http://media.putfile.com/ghetto-3

Probably most Edmontonians can recognize something in it......everything came from Canreefers....except the new open brain and inverts