mr_alberta's 1/2 cube build

[mr_alberta]

Well, the time has come to say goodbye to my 4' tank and welcome my new, 32"x32"x16" half cube! Hopefully this will be my last tank for a while (at least until I buy a house!)

Unfortunately my pictures are at home, and I am unfortunately at work lol.

However, I'll give you all a breakdown on the equipment I'll be running:

Tank: 32X32X16 acrylic tank w/ external overflow
Sump: 24X24X16" acrylic tenecor tank
Return Pump: Mag 7
Closed Loop: Red Dragon 8
Ballast: SLS Blue Wave 3
Bulb: 20000K Radium
Reflector: PGS Lumenarc
Controller: Aqua Controller Jr.
Skimmer: Bubble King Mini 180
Wavemaker: Ocean Motion Squirt
Substrate: Starboard/Cutting Board (HDPE)

I haven't decided what type of Reef Setup I'd like to do, Mixed Reef, LPS only or SPS only? Currently I have no SPS in my tank and have mainly LPS and softies, but I do miss the shapes and colors of SPS...

Also, I'd like to thank the following people for all their help:

Russ and Dez for helping me build my tank
Lando & Josh for all the sweet deals at Marine Aquaria
Agnes for all her patience and understanding
Ed, Eric & Pat for buying my old tank and equipment and funding my new one!
Ryan & Chris for the deals on the reflector and wavemaker

Pictures will come soon...I swear!

[muck]

I assume you are going home at lunch to post pics?

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by muck

I assume you are going home at lunch to post pics?

Guess not...

I too, would enjoy seeing said pics. Sounds like a cool looking shape.

[Boomboy]

pics or it didnt happen

[muck]

*poke*

[mr_alberta]

Sorry for the delay, didn't get a chance to finish the tank off quite yet, but here are some pictures of the build thus far:


First, the external overflow weir...normally you would cut the weir in BEFORE glueing things together....but I got a little too excited with the Weldon 40 and forgot to do this first As a result, we had to cut it after everything was glued together.


Here is Des helping me align the bottom of the tank after epoxying.



Here is Des and I admiring our work.



Here are my banana hands mixing the Weldon 40.



Here is Russ routering the edge after the Weldon 40 dried (a few days later)


That's all I have for now, hopefully I'll get to finish off the tank tonight at Russ' place and will have more pics soon!

[Joe Reefer]

Whoa! Russ is super focused.

[Delphinus]

Looks .. um .. very constructiony and stuff. Looks nice though.

What are the wooden boxes for, are they just weights for pushing on the seams?

[bignose]

Nice work! Do you have alot of experience building tanks?

[Boomboy]

Go russ go, get that acrylic!!!