More to come.....stay tuned

Here is the stand I am going to build for it, 2 piece unit, gonna save me about $1800 bucks doing it myself and using my structure, cosmetics are easy to duplicate.

Do you have any spec/blueprint for that? I need to eventually build one for my 180, and I think it would look awesome in a cabinet like that, rather than a normal stand.

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10 gallon fresh setup with 1 giant danio, 3 placos, and 1 guppie.
30 gal bare bottom QT
55 gallon salt setup with a bunch of crabs and snails. false perc clown, diamond goby, lawnmower blenny, a green mandarin, and 1 cleaner shrimp. And a few corals
180 gallon acrylic not setup yet. (Need a few more things before it gets filled with water.)
Tanks not setup, 10, 30, 55 with stand. Either 30 or the 55 will be the sump for the 180

I dont because the only thing I have blueprints for is the stand that supports the tank itself. Thats one I saw online that caught my eye and I can easily replicate it and customize it to my needs. Its a 2 piece unit I know and I am going to make the thing a floating canopy rather then one with legs and sides like in the pic. I dont like not being able to see inside the sides of the tank due to my heavy planting habits and lots of hardscaping as well. I cant see a dead fish from one angle, you know.

I will be doing a step by step build of this as I wing it. That one is sold for 12 bucks, plans only not the stand, the maker estimated it to be about $1800 bucks worth of material and labor if he were to build it and ship it to me from atlanta. I decided to build my stand then build the cosmetics around it, I will make the drawers on mine fully functional with euro slides, I know that one in the pic is 100% 3/4" plywood and Im building mine out of 2x4's and 2x6's for cheap insurance and the fact I cant afford to buy new tools to get the thing to assemble like he did. He is a construction contractor so he knows what he is doing, the extent of woodworking I do, I could never pull it off on the first try.

Nice looking, is that your one, or you are going to copy it?

Im copying the stand, the tank is MINE. not really copying it though, cause I am enhancing the design a bit and making it practical to a fish keeper. Build plans will be sold for 5 bucks a copy, I kid, I kid.

Can't wait till we start getting updates.

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YOU????? how do you think I feel over here.

Im like an ADD kid in an arcade right now wanting to get this thing built.

I think Im going to get the actual tank stand built and installed and get the tank up and going, then build the rest of it as time allows and just keep adding it on. I am looking at a 48" 4 bulb T5HO unit with 216 watts for 90 bucks right now but gotta get my gravel first and that might be as soon as sunday afternoon.

I picked up 6 emperor tetras today for it, 5 males and 1 female and possibly more tomorrow morning.

Nice! Although I think it would look much better in stained wood over painted.

I was gonna ask what would be in it. Any other type going in?

Looks amazing! Excited for you over here. Any way that you can upload those plans as pdf files for the rest of us?

Also, are the sides open on that thing, because i'm kind of confused as to how you'd be able to get in there and do maintenance/feeding with it all closed up.

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the top completely opens like a automobile hood, it will be on gas-a-just shocks as well for no slam operation. The drawers under the tank are going to be on euro tracks for no slam closings again

MY sides will be open, in that pic they are NOT. Mine will also be made of dimensional lumber for weight support of the actual tank, the rest will be 3/4 ply, the original fixture is all 3/4 ply assembled with tongue and groove and wood biskits and daba's, I am no wheres near understanding what all that is but thats why I am building it my way.

My design will be a frame on the bottom made of 2x4 and 2x6 lumber and the finished product you see will be attached after the fact. I will be using DZUS fasteners to secure the floating canopy to the book shelves and the book shelves are going to be part of the bottom unit.

Ben, it would look great in the dark oak, but all my furniture including my built in fun center(tv,game consoles,surround,media center) that is IDENTICAL to the trim style and door styles and color as the unit I am building. its a cosmetic thing with the wife, I wanted to paint the whole thing grey, I like camo and since I cant paint it in MAX4HD then its going white LOL

CAMO, lol. Wife would love it!!

yeah man will look great. should be a fun build!

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Ben, only Max4 HD buddy, however the winter camo would look awesome as heck too, hmmmmmm

cool will it be fresh water or a marine tank?

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Fresh, Its going to replace and upgrade my eastern amazon aquarium

if its camo how could she see it??? hmmmm???

Personally I love the white.

Everything I have furniture wise like that is white, the only black piece I got is my coffee table and thats cuz I wanted it lol, but my 52" is encased in the same thing pretty much, all the same style and stuff, itll look good, its gonna be a long build as saturdays are my only day off to do this kind of stuff but by august it will be 100% DONE.

Stand and tank are going in starting this weekend.

Still have the tank sitting empty, tomorrow the stand gets built. Tonight I was feeding a pair(not in the breeding aspect but as in 2) of GBR's I got as credit for 4 dead emperor tetras. These guys are tiny still, enough as I am apprehensive about putting them into the 55g thats being replaced by the 75g. I noticed late last evening they were "playing tag" in the tank and found it a bit odd but comical, today was no different, same behavior as last night, well tonight I go to give them 3 blackworms each and I noticed they didnt come out, well there is good reason(first pic, gold patch on bottom of breeder box/Bacteria boosters). I got these guys tuesday, since then they have been in 3 different tanks here at my house and the one they are in wasnt cycled due to me being stupid and not putting the sponges back into the sumps. I hope as there are NO predators in the tank they get it right or atleast get the act and behavior down before I move them to the 75g.
Ive never kept rams of such size difference together but I have a pair of bolivian rams in the 55g that are at full adult size, these GBR's are like an inch maybe and inch and a quarter MAX.....Im tempted to just keep them segregated for a few months till they are around the 2-2.5" mark.

Heres the pics of the 75g's newbies

WGA, I can't wait to see the finished product and or updates of the progress. however the stand alone tank looks to have a good sculped trim to it are you removing that or encorporating it into the build?

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