Deep Blue 35G Frag Tank

[hawaiifavo]

Your ready for an earthquake with that stand.:thumbsup:

And more importantly an upgrade : )

 

[zchauvin]

Very nice, looking good so far. It's so nice when you can step back and enjoy what you built yourself

 

[Jeremy837]

wow pretty fancy for a frag tank hope you post more updates

 

[zoasguy]

Looks soooo good. Jelly. Subscribed.

 

[jamie1981]

A bit over built but nice job on the stand!

 

[hawaiifavo]

Very nice, looking good so far. It's so nice when you can step back and enjoy what you built yourself

Thanks. I feel pretty good about it considering I have never done anything like this before. A lot of lessons have been learned for the next time I attempt something like this.

 

[hawaiifavo]

Looks soooo good. Jelly. Subscribed.

Thanks - more updates coming very soon. Just need to get the pictures posted. Will aim for this evening.

 

[hawaiifavo]

wow pretty fancy for a frag tank hope you post more updates

Yes, more coming tonight hopefully. Admittedly I think I am going for a "display frag tank" if there is such a thing in the non commercial world. At the end of the day I will be selling these frags and people will be picking thier frags from this frag tank so I want them to feel that not only are the frags of the highest quality but so is the frag tank and its filtration too from which the frags have originated.

Perhaps its the wrong approach but again please bare in mind that this is my first attempt at something like this and my only previous experience is from my own display tank so I will be trying to replicate the success that I have had with that into this frag tank while learning along the way the finer points/differences of full reef tanks vs. frag tank.

Any help and advise is greatly appreciated.

 

[hawaiifavo]

A bit over built but nice job on the stand!

Thanks - it was more work than I expected it would be but perhaps that was my own fault. As it was my first stand build I just didn't want to take any chances at all with stability.

 

[hawaiifavo]

Its been a long day so I will just post pics of today's progress rather than try and put any narrative to them.

 

[hawaiifavo]

 

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[hawaiifavo]

That's it for tonight. Next step is plumbing and water testing.

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

Wow! Looks great. Hurry up and get it plumbed so it can get wet.

Let me be the first to say it's time to upgrade your tank to fit your stand. Lol

 

[hawaiifavo]

Wow! Looks great. Hurry up and get it plumbed so it can get wet.

Let me be the first to say it's time to upgrade your tank to fit your stand. Lol

ha ha my friend said the same thing. Thanks for the support!

 

[Jerine]

Following

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

ha ha my friend said the same thing. Thanks for the support!

No problem. i need to get the 65g out of the shed and start cleaning it up. along with redoing some stuff to the stand.

 

[hawaiifavo]

Made a start on the plumbing today. My aim was to keep it simple, tidy and as cheap as possible.

I ended up cutting come tubing off of my water changing flexy tubing and then using some other flexy tubing that came with my refugium - I just never used it. Spent more on the pvc cement than I did on plumbing parts which was a nice change.

As always minimum chat and lots of pics - enjoy!

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Literally watching paint dry so I can get everything taped, clamped, cemented and zip tied...

 

[zoasguy]

Looks good. Is the black to keep algae out of hose?

 

[hawaiifavo]

Looks good. Is the black to keep algae out of hose?

Yes primarily, also makes the setup look that little bit more clean I think. Matches the Emerald's drain plumbing nicely.