The Worlds Fastest Tank Build... (New Photos 1.26.2010)

rstar · #1 04-06-2009, 06:03 AM

This is just a quick shot of inspecting the new tank.

So by about 8:00am We had the old tank drained and moved out with the new tank sitting in its new home.
We had to shim the tank stand as my floor as a slight slope to it, this was a frustrating hour of getting everything supported. I ended up using an extra panel of 8mm laminate i had kicking around.

I decided to turf all my old sand and go with one 40lbs bag of aragonite rinsed thoroughly. It was just enough to skim the bottom of the tank and i quite like it.

by 9:00 we were setting up all the plumbing for the overflow. This was frustrating as apparantly home depot no longer sells pvc under 4" We had to make so with what i had lie around and the few connectors my LFS gave me the day before when picked up the tank.

By 1:00pm we pretty much had the tank refilled and everything moved back into the tank.

The Rock-Work is just pretty puch thrown together as we were getting REALLY burned out at this point. Though i really do like the cave on the side.

At 2:30 my brother in law and i passed out on the couch for a few hours and woke at 8:00pm tonight to a nice clear tank. all that was left to do was plug the skimmer in and go to sleep...

So there you have it everyone a 24hr tank build!!

Lance · #2 04-06-2009, 06:18 AM

Wow! That's awesome. And it looks good too!

Chaloupa · #3 04-06-2009, 06:35 AM

WOW...it does look good...lucky you there is a very very happy ending..... AND a bigger tank! Nice work guys!

lobsterboy · #4 04-06-2009, 06:37 AM

looks good, nice

sunce_22 · #5 04-06-2009, 06:37 AM

Congrats on the happy ending! We were following along and worried the whole way!

rstar · #6 04-06-2009, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sunce_22

Congrats on the happy ending! We were following along and worried the whole way!

It's amazing the support that members of thie site gove eachother. Thanks for the support!

mark · #7 04-06-2009, 11:39 AM

nice (and quick)

golf nut · #8 04-06-2009, 12:58 PM

Excellent!! now go back to bed.

Pazil · #9 04-06-2009, 01:15 PM

Great job on the build.... looks like a lot of thought went into it....

rstar · #10 04-06-2009, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Chaloupa

WOW...it does look good...lucky you there is a very very happy ending..... AND a bigger tank! Nice work guys!

I was very happy that is ended well. I can tank one fish loss over a whole reef. W are pretty pleased with the way it all turned out! Thanks for the compliments!!