My 180

[Beaner3]

This is it, still in the shop, the shovel is for comparison.
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I built the stand out of salvaged wood from construction sites, I wanted to see how the contrast between crushed coral and the Tahitian moon would look. I did'nt like it much

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I built this sump out of 1/4" cast acrylic, it measures 61"long by 14" front to back by 15" tall. I have the fuge taking up about 35 gallons of a 60 gallon sump. A couple of baffles in it, and my budget nautilus skimmer. Any one ever use them?

This is the first time I figured out how to finally post pics. I'm pumped! more to come.

 

[Beaner3]

Starting to fill it, I'm still filling it! Premixing ro/di and salt in a 20 gal tub. I only get 24 GPD from my ro unit so I'll do what I need to do with the sump today, rout it tomorrow, and by the weekend I'll be able to get it up and running

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Just another shot of it filling up, I mixed in about 40 lbs. of aragalive with the Tahitian moon to lighten it up a little. Keep the heaters in the tank right now just to bring water up to temp.

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I plan on making a run down to Minneapolis next monday to get about 200 lbs of marshall island rock to toss in here and start cycling this beast. Waiting for hqi pendants too.

 

[Beaner3]

I'm going to skin out the stand with some solid oak doors inlaid with some banded jasper hematite that has been polished and sliced into 1/2" x 1/4" thick pieces, and match it on the canopy. I'm going to post some pics when I get that project started, probably next week.

I also salvaged the lumber for the stand because I thought that recycling it for something functional and cool would be much better than having it go to a landfill. Just my take on it.

 

[frederickk]

Nice! keep the pics coming.