It has arrived, my new frag tank!!

[titoav15]

Well its finally here, UPS surprised me today by delivering it 1 day early (I'm not complaining). I will try to make this a very picture intense build. I will have pleanty of questions along the way! So here are the first few pics of the tank:

the box (why not start from the very begining, right?):

looks like this thing was packed for war!

lots of padding + 1 for John at AA

 

[titoav15]

I should have asked him to include a drool cup because this thing is sweet!!

dementions are as follows 24L x 16W x 8H

I asked him to make me an acrylic lid for the overflow and he did, looks awesome and fits perfect!!

 

[titoav15]

better pic of the lid

overflow close up

 

[dadoftwins]

Can i barrow that

 

[titoav15]

not a single scratch on this baby, John did a wonderful job building as well as packing it. His response time was terrific and order turnaround time very quick. I would recommend him based on my experience

 

[titoav15]

Can i barrow that

lol

 

[Capt_Cully]

FRA-GI-LE........must be Italian?

 

[aquadonkey]

Congrats Alex! It's beautiful

 

[titoav15]

Congrats Alex! It's beautiful

Thank you Lizz! I could not sleep last night because I was so excited, so to calm myself down I started to read my governmental accounting textbook which put me to sleep in about 45min lol

 

[titoav15]

FRA-GI-LE........must be Italian?

I guess that one went over my head lol

 

[pascal32]

looking good!

 

[titoav15]

Thanks, Pascal! Still have a long way to go before its complete.

 

[magdelan]

I guess that one went over my head lol

"It's a major award. I won it".

 

[titoav15]

FRA-GI-LE........must be Italian?

*Update* got it

 

[titoav15]

task of the day: order tek light, bulbs, and loc-line

 

[Capt_Cully]

*Update* got it

I knew you'd come around. This is a sweet project. Almost started something similar in my down time. Keep the updates comin!

 

[titoav15]

I knew you'd come around. This is a sweet project. Almost started something similar in my down time. Keep the updates comin!

Nice!! Will update each step of the way, hopefully more coming this week

 

[titoav15]

Ok so today I ordered 24" Tek light (Thanks all for helping me make this decision! ), hanging kit, ati + kz bulbs (Thank you Pascal and Steve) and loc-line. Picked up some bulkheads from ABC this past weekend will be putting them on shortly
To be continued!

 

[titoav15]

Installed some bulkheads:
1/2" return:

1" drain:

next is hopefully making plans and building a stand!

 

[pascal32]

looks good! When you go to put the hose on heat the hose with a heat gun (or hair dryer) then wet the plastic nipple and push on. then cable clamp or zip ties to hold in place. if you do the zip ties make sure the tube is still nice and warm