7duster3
Active member
Alrighty so i thought i would start a build thread for myself before i take a trillion pictures and post them in different threads. This will be for my new to me LeeMar 48x30x24 150g with 4 inch Eurobrace tank.
Where to begin... Lets start off with buying the tank from Fatty23 when he remodeled his office in GG. It was a heck of a job trying to get the thing through his doors and into the bed of my truck. I took that day from him: the 150g tank, matching LeeMar stand (funny story behind this stand) a 40 gallon sump and about 45 lbs of dry rock that he had some cool aquascaping with.
I got the tank home and set up in my driveway to start cleaning it out in preparation for my upgrade. We all know LeeMar tanks are the bizzniss, but his stands can stick themselves where the sun doesn't shine as far as my wallets concerned. After a few days of cleaning this thing out and hosing it down, water had gotten under the tank in between the stand and the tank. The crappily used particle board started to bubble and had nowhere to go but up and cracked the bottom piece of glass rendering my newly acquired tank useless and ready for me to snap in half. Luckily i called up LeeMar and they were able to fix it for 250 bucks. Luckily i was able to drop it off and pick it back up from SoCal Tropical on LeeMars gas not mine. And so i started over...
We gladly smashed the chitty stand and built a new one with an additional custom side door using all the hardware from the old stand plus a few added wood working skills to give it my own touch. After sanding and painting for days we finally have this badboy in its resting place in game room.
After bending a few 3/4 inch conduit pipes and painted them black i bolted up my light bars. With them i should be able to adjust up and down, left to right my fixture which i haven't made yet.
Anyways here is my tank how it sits now... (the tank is dirty and i still need to wipe off all the water residue on the outside)
Plans for it in the near future include adding 60 lbs of sugar grain size sand into the system and start my plumbing.
Where to begin... Lets start off with buying the tank from Fatty23 when he remodeled his office in GG. It was a heck of a job trying to get the thing through his doors and into the bed of my truck. I took that day from him: the 150g tank, matching LeeMar stand (funny story behind this stand) a 40 gallon sump and about 45 lbs of dry rock that he had some cool aquascaping with.
I got the tank home and set up in my driveway to start cleaning it out in preparation for my upgrade. We all know LeeMar tanks are the bizzniss, but his stands can stick themselves where the sun doesn't shine as far as my wallets concerned. After a few days of cleaning this thing out and hosing it down, water had gotten under the tank in between the stand and the tank. The crappily used particle board started to bubble and had nowhere to go but up and cracked the bottom piece of glass rendering my newly acquired tank useless and ready for me to snap in half. Luckily i called up LeeMar and they were able to fix it for 250 bucks. Luckily i was able to drop it off and pick it back up from SoCal Tropical on LeeMars gas not mine. And so i started over...
We gladly smashed the chitty stand and built a new one with an additional custom side door using all the hardware from the old stand plus a few added wood working skills to give it my own touch. After sanding and painting for days we finally have this badboy in its resting place in game room.
After bending a few 3/4 inch conduit pipes and painted them black i bolted up my light bars. With them i should be able to adjust up and down, left to right my fixture which i haven't made yet.
Anyways here is my tank how it sits now... (the tank is dirty and i still need to wipe off all the water residue on the outside)
Plans for it in the near future include adding 60 lbs of sugar grain size sand into the system and start my plumbing.
I never get fishy stuff.
