Trevor W's 100 Gallon Build Thread 48"L x 24"W x 20"H

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Trevor W

Who would of thought that after spending $$$ on media reactors I would be having to DIY it to properly work with the same brand of carbon lol.

Wow, that's ridiculous! I hope you send them an email along with your pics.

On the other hand, great fix with the Poret sponge.

[Trevor W]

Originally Posted by explor3r

Great build love your tank dimension and I dig your rock work. Im a big fan of vertex skimmers they work excellent and never give you problems.
Keep it up

Thank You the kind words are greatly appreciated!
I agree the Vertex skimmers are great. I will admit that it took longer than I had thought to dial in my IN-180 but all in all its a great skimmer.

[Trevor W]

Originally Posted by Myka

Wow, that's ridiculous! I hope you send them an email along with your pics.

On the other hand, great fix with the Poret sponge.

Yeah I had contemplated emailing them in hopes that at the very least they would start offering a second set of sponges with the reactor one for coarser media and one for finer media like their own ROX 0.8 carbon lol. Maybe if I type it up in fancy red and white font they will listen.

[wreck]

wheres the update

[Trevor W]

Here you go










































Keep in mind that the rock in the middle between the 2 islands will be either removed or relocated in the next month or 2

[Myka]

Nice colonies!

[Cliff]

I just read through your whole thread and I really like how you used that bench next to your tank to hide the electrical for your tank. That is a great idea

[Trevor W]

Originally Posted by Myka

Nice colonies!

Thanks again!

Originally Posted by Cliff

I just read through your whole thread and I really like how you used that bench next to your tank to hide the electrical for your tank. That is a great idea

Thank you! I really wanted to take as much of the electrical away from under the tank as I could. It seemed like all that electrical + saltwater was just not a good combo. I had the extra space so I found this cheap bench at walmart and it works perfectly. Not to mention that with it being cheap I wasn't too heart broken about taking a whole saw bit to the back to make the holes bigger. I encourage anyone that has the space to do it as well. I only hope that people will take the idea and improve on it or perhaps incorporate it into there own build some how. In all honesty you wouldn't really need a large storage bench like mine. Roughly about 2 months ago I had my skimmer go crazy (for whatever reason) and it was spewing water all over the place. I was sure glad there was no electrical under the tank due to the splashing, it was literally splashed everywhere under the tank. I realize that not everyone has the space to do a seperate cabinet for electrical, but even secluding or somewhat shielding there under tank electrical seems like a good idea to me.