My New 72"x20"x20" Tank Build

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

Yeah your closed loop looked great! When do you figure you can have it all going by? If your like me, your getting really impatient! Well honestly, my fish are the ones getting really impatient...

Well, I'm hopin to have water by end of the month, better be sooner HAHAHA. We just re arranged the living room tonigth, put the tank in another corner. And then I did the smart thing and checked my finances....I'll be over in the corner here sobbing uncontrollably LMAO

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Well, I'm hopin to have water by end of the month, better be sooner HAHAHA. We just re arranged the living room tonigth, put the tank in another corner. And then I did the smart thing and checked my finances....I'll be over in the corner here sobbing uncontrollably LMAO

I hear you about the finances! I can not really change or add much for a good long while now. Even going today to get the ABS stuff for the outlets ended up being like $50...not so bad BUT when you add up all the $50 trips, it gets a little crazy. Well over $2000 now. Im pretty excited to get some fresh water in it saturday and then if all goes well, drain it and start adding RO water maybe Monday or Tuesday. I want to get the LR in the tank by next Tuesday or Wednesday and see if there is a bit of a cycle which I expect. We will see though if that all goes as planned. Nothing really has so far!

[banditpowdercoat]

LOL, Ya I just spent $67 on more fittings tonight too, My 3rd trip for PVC, and I think I'll have one more. Alot of stuff for a 45g, dang LOL. But, I am serious on wanting this tank, so I aint givin up

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

LOL, Ya I just spent $67 on more fittings tonight too, My 3rd trip for PVC, and I think I'll have one more. Alot of stuff for a 45g, dang LOL. But, I am serious on wanting this tank, so I aint givin up

Yeah I think Im at about 4 trips after my initial $500 worth of plumbing delivered to my door and each were over $50. So Im guessing about close to $700 just on plumbing...Now that I think about it then, Im more like at $2500 on this tank. I also have ended up with enough plumbing to literally plumb two tanks I think. I have changed plans so much. I guess its worth having but if i had known exactly what I would need and how much from the beginning, I bet my plumbing would have been more like $400. Oh well...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Some Closed Loop and Plumbing pics. Nothing too fancy. Its all about 90% done now. Really just need to plumb the skimmer and then test it all out. I am going to start by testing the closed loop later on tonight or tomorrow morning. The closed loop does not have the 45 degree fittings on the ends of the output yet except for the one close up pic. I also threw in a few pics of my fish and gecko...he does not really like the water too much

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

He was puffed up so HUGE but by the time I got the camera, this was all that was left of the "puffiness"...Too bad. He was about double this size and had all kinds of spikes.



Our 2 year old Gecko named "Velcro". He has become such a cool gecko. He loves our cats. They have regular morning meetings in the corner of his terrarium. The cats will go to the same corner every morning and scratch on the glass, the gecko comes over and jumps on the glass right infront of them! He would be a terrible wild gecko I think, he really does not realize they probably want to eat him! Or maybe he does and is teasing them!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]