Diy 60 gallon cube stand/hood/sump

[paulweck]

hi everybody, i haven't really be posting on the forum too much lately of work and life being busy as ever lately. so ive decided to make my come back with my new 60 gallon reef ready cube tank

Well to make a long story short i decided to sell my 45 gallon bow front fish only system in order to upgrade to a nice reef tank i mean what the heck! go big or go home right but i wanted something sleek not a big tank but a well setup cube reef tank with led lighting so i dove in. sold the 45 on CL for 300 bucks and off i went to that pet place to pick up my new holy grail ......


i have already build a stand and hood built for the tank.. i will update my progress on the build as i hope to have the setup complete and running any my fish in my a little after xmas. ( i have all my fish in qt and all my rock and sand in 20 gallon toots witch all came from my 45 tank.) i have 90 lbs of live rock and about 70 lbs of sand. ready and waiting to go.

let me know what u guys think....

 

[paulweck]

sump

sump

i also picked up the glass for my sump today and got it all glued up...

what do u guys think about the configuration for my sump do u think it will work well????

 

[paulweck]

does anybody have any insight on my sump design??

 

[Brianjm95]

I really like the sump idea and think it will work out well. Can't wait to see the progression.

 

[paulweck]

thanks for the reply i plan on updating everyone as the build moves along. im hoping to have the sump done by the weekend.. i would like more feedback good or bad on the sump design if anybody else would chime in

thanks

 

[Beachbw68]

do you have the plans for the canopy. I really like this build I am looking to buy a 60g cube with a sump. What where you planing to do for flow and what pump are you going to use?

 

[kleen View]

Your canopy looks good, looking forward to seeing it finished...

 

[bwhit1406]

sump looks good what kind of skimmer are you going to use?

 

[Beachbw68]

any up dates?