Mangrove bommie

[Giga]

New home=new tank

So the tank will be inset into the wall- thats what all the contruction in the finished garage/tank room is for. The tank will be 48x30x12" rimless so about 74 ish gallons. The bonsai you see on the left side will be my black mangrove that I've been growing since my first tank. It will be very modern as there will be little rock with one or two red mangrove growing to the right or left depending where the boomie will be. There will be a lot of negitive space in this and will be lit by all LED's



Insperation

 

[CharlieBB]

This will be amazing to watch develop

 

[Giga]

Thank you, ill be ordering the glass on Monday and I think the LEDs too if I can decide on what I want to do

 

[teamschreiba]

Glad to see you back Giga! Can't wait to see this tank progress.

 

[Giga]

Yeah it's been a while so I'm chomping at the bit

 

[Giga]

Just ordered the glass and man I got a steal! 220 for polished edge glass. So its gonna be here on Thursday but I still have to build the stand and tear the wall out so lots lots to do!

 

[Giga]

:bounce2::bounce2::bounce2::bounce1::bounce1::bounce1:

by the way moving is a &^%$

 

[Softhammer]

Check out reefLED's new production fixture! The new carbon fiber housing will look sick on that setup!

 

[Giga]

Also I got addicted to another hobby:spin1:

I have a contracter comming this weekend and well be working on the wall, don't know how much will get done but things are finally moving along now that I'm moved in my new house- mostly lol

 

[trueblackpercula]

Here's my in wall build
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=746233&pp=25

 

[Andrew17030]

I have a good feeling about this one.

 

[GSMguy]

Love the frogs.

 

[Giga]

My vivarium 83 gallons(20x20x48")
Pardon the bad cellphone pic

I've had mangrove for a while now-black mangrove are about 3 years old I think and the red 1.5- I imagine they would be bigger since they kinda have not been in the ideal growing condition as of late.

black mangrove pneumatophores

again pardon the cellphone pics, some are pretty tal at like 33" or so. They just went through a trim so not as leafy as they were a little bit ago.

 

[Giga]

Finally I'm on Christmas break(I love working at a university) I've been working non-stop doing home improvement things now I'm starting the tank work. Only thing is I seemed to have run into a problem. I had a contractor come out and looks at the wall and it's not load bearing at all, but theres a random electrical line running through the wall and I need to put a least 1 2x4 to support the header. It's not a big header but still I don't know where this cord goes. It has no slack either so I can't cut it and splice it back together in a gang box. Anyone have any ideas?

So I hate over flows so I got this,gonna get another one case this gets clogged or something.

 

[Alavaster]

Giga, I love your Dart frog vivarium! Absolutely stunning. I'm excited to see how this tank build develops.

 

[jsjonesrdh]

Giga do you have a thread showing your builds with pictures that work. I have looked through a few of the older ones but all I see is the forbidden one. I'm in the process of building a custom tank and I would love to see some of your pics and the things you learned while building ( particularly the errors/ mistakes so I can avoid them)

 

[Giga]

Unfortunately image shack deleted those so there long gone but ill post full details here

 

[jsjonesrdh]

Giga, when you order your glass, do you have the bevel or just polish the edges? Do you have them do that to all edges, including the inner edges?

 

[jsjonesrdh]

Also, when submit your glass order do you calculate the cuts for a 1/16th silicone seam in between panels?

 

[Giga]

Sorry for super duper long update time but me and my wife are about to have our first baby and the due date is June 8th!!! So things have slowed down a bit but I have made progress and this project has changed a lot(for the better) and this is going to be the craziest tank ever! I'm not tell you the changes but your all in for a serious trip and i'll try and update each week minus when i'm in the hospital welcoming my daughter into the world:love2:

On with the pics

plywood?

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