Back in the Saddle Again!! My new 480g In-Wall thread

[john37]

black piping huh? very nice.
ygpm btw.

 

[loserkidz]

 

[Musicbabe]

Now that you're living with your tank, anything you would have done differently? Do you regret not having access from the front?

 

[Architect1]

ah ah ah wow beautiful tank nice updating. If only I had the Gs for that wow thats amazing vary beautiful tank. Hope to see more pics later.

 

[loserkidz]

Musicbabe, there is access from the front. The 12" panel on top has a ss piano hinge all the way across and opens for feeding and cleaning.
Brent

 

[invincible569]

Great job!! You look like one of my friends from High School. I had to take a second look.

 

[ReefWaters]

Did you paint the PVC or did you buy it black?

 

[loserkidz]

Reef waters,
The PVC is coated with the truck bed liner, I was trying to visually remove the plumbing out of the picture the piping all the way from the OM 8way to the submereged outputs are coated and are holding up perfect even the ones that are in the harsh salt water.
Invincible, your friend must be handsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brent Higa

 

[mathluque]

just a word "nice" i am trying to make a tank like that , i hope that at the end , the tank look like yours.

thanks for sharing

david

 

[saurus]

Tank update Brent!! How is the new pad, kids, town, job, etc..???

Cheers brotha,

Clint

 

[MikeL152123]

Impressive Setup

Impressive Setup

I have to say of all the tanks setups i've seen your rock work is probably the best out of them all. I'm sorry if i missed it but how much live sand did you end up using and could you give me some info on your lighting? Thanx and again nice setup

 

[sonofgaladriel]

Very very nice indeed. Great job on everything.

 

[Bax]

Very nice! So, you can use auto undercoating in the water? Is there a curing time? ... That 8-way looks awesome!

 

[loserkidz]

Mike I ended up dumping 5-40sacs of caribseafloor grade, but as you see from the pics the front half is bare bottom due to the flow. I actually was going to go with barebottom, but I have a thing for wrasses and ya need sand for them to sleep. As for the lighting it consists of the four L3 lumenars with two 20k helios and 2 14k hamis all 400w.
Thanks for the compliments sonofgabriel, it means alot coming from you!!
Bax,
It isn't the ruberized undercoating at the parts store, that smells bad and looks to be tar or petroleum based. The coating I used was the bedliner spray, which dried pretty fast. I can only say I haven't had any ill affects, I work for a paint manufacturer and have used alot in the past some of our pool paints for different reasons(eg. plumbing parts sch40) to make them blend in with the surrounding structures. Never had a problem!!!
Brent Higa

 

[MikeL152123]

When are we going to see some updated pics!!!!???

 

[loserkidz]

I hooked up a Network cam: http://66.190.98.242 and tanks specs from my lighthouse controller is http://66.190.98.242:8008

I will try to get some pics this weekend!!!
Brent Higa

 

[loserkidz]

Here are some updated 5mo. later shots!!

Here are some updated 5mo. later shots!!

 

[melev]

Those can't be the right pictures. Where are your corals?

 

[SERVO]

I took them all and put them into my tank!

 

[extinguishfire]

Why? What happened?