Bryan's 50 Gallon Cube

[ewgthegreat]

man i need you to build me a tank nice work bryan

 

[mmoore0803]

where r the pix?

 

[WarDaddy]

need I say more...

 

[poknsnok]

great work Bryan. Love the canopy

 

[CMcNeil]

now that is looking HOT...........
do you see any bowing of the glass at all?

 

[WarDaddy]

ZERO bowing 3/8" was perfect!

 

[Harmsry]

Wow, a cube with a sandbed, way to fight the trend!!

 

[WarDaddy]

I will never go bare bottom

 

[WarDaddy]

So I have spent the weekend focused almost totally on one and only one thing... get the cube up!

I have done a pretty good job.

Here is the Left Side:

Here is the Right Side:

Here is the Front:

 

[WarDaddy]

Now lets look inside the stand...

From the front:

From the left:

The 5 gallon bucket is top off water.

There will be a RDSB in a 6 gallon bucket in a few days (It is filtering the holding setup)

Cooling...
On top of the cube:

On the Sump:

 

[jmorr]

totally worth the lose of sleep looks amazing .

 

[guntercb]

I guess soon the live stock in the garage will be in this tank? Looking good... Did you ever sell your 120?

Cheers,
Chris

 

[WarDaddy]

So what do I have running this bad boy?

Tank:
24x24x20 about 50 gallons 3/8" glass
External Overflow

Lighting:
1 x 175watt Metal Halide Iawasaki 15K
2 x 39watt T-5 Geisman Actinic
Moon lights, need to install still.

Circulation:
1 x Quietone 3000
1 x Hydor Koralia 2
2 x Tunze 7025

Sump is a standard 15 gallon tank, home made bubble Trap

Skimmer is an I-Tec Cone skimmer with a sedra 3000 (I think)

Carbon in a reactor, Phos-ban soon.

Remote Deep Sand Bed in a 6 gallon bucket, 14" of sand, will be added soon.

Controlled with an AC3, DC8 and DC4HD.

 

[WarDaddy]

Live stock may start going in today...

120 has a buyer lined up, will finalize after his vacation next month.

 

[Kubi]

like I said before.....Sweet

 

[alizarin]

Piece of artwork, great job man!

 

[guntercb]

Bryan,

I hope you move your 120 soon. Post a photo when you add some live stock. Looking good. Keep it up.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[jcat90reefer]

very nice set up... cant wait to see it stocked

 

[adam82]

wow!!!! very nice bryan!

 

[mmoore0803]

Very nice but where are the swimmers?