Scott-CapeCoral
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Hey Everyone, I haven't posted anything yet about the system I'm building now so I thought I'd share some pics. The stand and hood are completely done as of now, but I'll post pics from the night I got started.
I chose to do two 57g Oceanic Illuminatas side by side instead of one large tank so that I could have a display tank, and a display fuge(or)frag tank side by side on the same stand. The tanks are 5 inches apart, share the same stand, and same 1 piece hanging hood. The lights are on order as of today. I decided to go with a 250w 14k phoenix mogul base on each tank, with coralvue ballasts. I bought a used refugium sump with two overflow intakes just like I needed and cleaned it up to bran new. It is only about a year old, the thing is immaculate. My reeflo dart will be powering both tanks, dialed down of coarse. This is going to be a quick build thread since it's actually almost done and ready to be transferred. Here are a few pics from the night it was started. Someone in my neighborhood was tossing out the wood. At first I didn't even think of trying to use it from what the surface looked like. After about 5 days, we took one piece to the house and cut it up to see what the inside looked like, it's perfect. It was only surface warn, which only ruins the cosmetics of it. That didn't matter since the whole thing is covered in pine select anyways . That saved me alot of money.
This stand is definatley overkill. I just wanted to make sure it was never going to fail. Now I can sleep at night
Morris and I working on the pine select wood.
I bought a stain that looked good in home depot, but terrible when applied.. Here it is as the first coat..
Same wood, drying after the first coat. A friend of mine game me some dark cherry wood stain, and when I added a coat of the cherry to this orange stain it came out to a color that I was searching for all along
You'll see in the next couple photos what it turned out to be.
Here is a side panel, with the cherry stain over the orangeish stain. I love this color and I was very lucky it turned out this way.
I chose to do two 57g Oceanic Illuminatas side by side instead of one large tank so that I could have a display tank, and a display fuge(or)frag tank side by side on the same stand. The tanks are 5 inches apart, share the same stand, and same 1 piece hanging hood. The lights are on order as of today. I decided to go with a 250w 14k phoenix mogul base on each tank, with coralvue ballasts. I bought a used refugium sump with two overflow intakes just like I needed and cleaned it up to bran new. It is only about a year old, the thing is immaculate. My reeflo dart will be powering both tanks, dialed down of coarse. This is going to be a quick build thread since it's actually almost done and ready to be transferred. Here are a few pics from the night it was started. Someone in my neighborhood was tossing out the wood. At first I didn't even think of trying to use it from what the surface looked like. After about 5 days, we took one piece to the house and cut it up to see what the inside looked like, it's perfect. It was only surface warn, which only ruins the cosmetics of it. That didn't matter since the whole thing is covered in pine select anyways . That saved me alot of money.
This stand is definatley overkill. I just wanted to make sure it was never going to fail. Now I can sleep at night
Morris and I working on the pine select wood.
I bought a stain that looked good in home depot, but terrible when applied.. Here it is as the first coat..
Same wood, drying after the first coat. A friend of mine game me some dark cherry wood stain, and when I added a coat of the cherry to this orange stain it came out to a color that I was searching for all along
You'll see in the next couple photos what it turned out to be.
Here is a side panel, with the cherry stain over the orangeish stain. I love this color and I was very lucky it turned out this way.
