Joedodge's 10 gallon nano project!!

[joedodge]

Well after the bio use I bought used was cleaned up it had a leak and scratched bad all over and heat and was so water logged it was junk. So I stared over on a family affordable budget got a petsmart stand and 10 gallon tank. Assembled and painted the back black. Got a ac50 hob filter and a 50 watt heater and a koralia 425 nano to start off with prolly gonna use a wave point blade 9" light and possible another nano power head. Currently trying to figure a way to run just filter floss in the filter

 

[gavinsepanik]

Looks good so far, ill be following along

 

[joedodge]

Yeah hoping it Gos well with some basic maintenance lol

 

[joedodge]

Ok got my sand and rock ordered from Marcos rock. And got my ligh orders went with a wave point blade 10k/blue 9". Gonna pick the best 10-12 pound of rock and some of the sand and get it set up hopefully by next weekend. Interested to try the putty for assembling the rocks

 

[gavinsepanik]

Good luck on the scape, can,t wait to see how it turns out.

 

[gavinsepanik]

Also, how do you like the blade so far? I've been considering one for my Fusion 10.

 

[joedodge]

It'll be here Friday lol. I'll be glad to let ya know. The rock and sand from Marco rock will be here today

 

[joedodge]

Rock showed up today got 20 pound nano kit. I'm not artistic at all this is the best I could come up with lol.....opinions?

 

[joedodge]

Have to paint it black still but gonna mess with a egg crate too and a glass top. I have lil kids so I'd like something there but don't want glass to filter lift out or hold heat in to bad

 

[joedodge]

Got it scaped and putty together I used the two part epoxy Marco rock had. Turned out pretty good

 

[DustanT]

looks good

 

[joedodge]

Thanks a lot. Have the rest of the parts just waiting on the light. Dropping the buckets off at my bro in laws tomm to get water made up

 

[joedodge]

Light showed up today and rocks are assembled and dry. Will get a full tank shot once all equipment is in. The light is really nice! I didn't have to trim a lil of the back rim tho where a lid would sit to allow it to slide over the frame. And had to shim it with a couple cut zip ties to keep it standing straight

 

[joedodge]

Photo I took with the whites on wouldn't upload so here's the blues

 

[joedodge]

Ahh got it I'm pretty impressed with this light so far for cost this is the attinic and whites together the light isn't mounted in the pics

 

[drakedeming]

Liking this, some similar equipment to my start and at the same time.

I didn't even think to cut out egg crate for the filter!

Scape looks good, was the epoxy easy? Also liked the idea of laying it out outside the tank ahead of time.

 

[joedodge]

I'm excited to see your build also! I'll get some pics of the egg crate filter floss mod when it's assembled. The epoxy was real easy to seperate tubes of putty mix equal amounts and smoosh it in where ya want and stick the rocks together very very impressed. Yeah I just cut that piece of cardboard the size of the tank and it let me see what I could fit and make sure I had flow all the way around the structure

 

[joedodge]

Got the glass from the glass shop and messing with setting the light on it not using the bracket. I think I like it better

 

[joedodge]

Picture of the aquaclear what I did was used the media basket but I didn't install there media I zip ties a piece of egg crate in to lay filter floss on instead. I didn't wana run the filter pad or bio media and chemical and have to deal with trapped nitrates. I may add a lil rubble to the basket

 

[marleesan]

I have the same filter and was wondering how you made the crate media basket and what you are going to fill it with