Our New Top Down Tank

[NanoReef]

Alright, so this is going to be a project thread for our new tank. We are from Brandon Manitoba and recently moved to Calgary. Before we moved, i contacted Concept and had them build us a 24"x24"x10" 25 gallon tank which will be mainly a top down tank. Before we left, we built the stand for the tank and just crossed our fingers that the tank fit! So here is the stand in progress.


and here it is all painted up

aaaaaaaaand here is that "tank" we are working with until the actual tank is up!

thats it for now! more to come tomorrow

[Alberta-newb]

The stand looks great! (I'm a painter myself and appreciate quality work)

I like the "custom" light mounting fixture too

Francis

[kien]

Looking good! I love the ghetto "tank" LOL

[NanoReef]

Originally Posted by Alberta-newb

The stand looks great! (I'm a painter myself and appreciate quality work)

I like the "custom" light mounting fixture too

Francis

thank you very much! i was pretty happy with how the stand turned out! and about the ghetto tank.... the "light rail" was the girlfriends idea! actually worked pretty good surprisingly lol.

and Kien, you cant tell me you never ran a rubbermaid as a temp tank?! haha

so we got the tank from Denny, and it looked amazing! so we just had to cross our fingers that the tank fit on the stand. Here she is, it fit!


it has a centre overflow with dual returns. We picked up some loc-line for the returns

thats it for now! more to come soon

[lastlight]

Slick looking little top down. Love the light hanger too! I'm going to assume you don't have kids or cats? If you do you've got more guts than me lol.

[NanoReef]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Slick looking little top down. Love the light hanger too! I'm going to assume you don't have kids or cats? If you do you've got more guts than me lol.

haha no kids or cats! alright so i got a couple more pictures to share.. Since we are wanting to run this tank bare bottom, and we hate the look of the glass until coraline overtakes, we decided to have the guys at concept cut us a black piece of acrylic to match the back panel for the bottom of the tank. This way, the corals will stick out more, and there will be no distracting glare off of the bottom of the tank. So once i got it home, i siliconed it in place, and here is how it looks


i love the way it turned out. Matched up the back panel with the bottom quite nicely

[reefwars]

Love the black bottom dude looks clean as hell build looks killer def following along will you get er filled this week?

[Skimmerking]

how do you like living in Calgary alot better I bet

[NanoReef]

Yea I like it a lot better. Can get waaaay better stuff out here and not have to order every little thing I need!

[xtreme]

Nice tank Erik, got some sweet pieces there!