chetm2
Premium Member
Well after reading and envying over all the big tanks I decided to go with a cube tank to be a little different. As soon as I decided on the size 48" l x 48" w x 24" t, I've seen numerous other cube tanks and realized I'm not so different 
I'm hoping to have something like sonofgaladriel's setup. If I had the extra money he's the guy I would of had built the stand and canopy. So needless to say I will be trying my hardest to copy his design. I had a local reefer named Keith Jackson make my stand out of steel and he does excellent work. He built it in a day and delivered it to the powdercoaters for me. I can't tell you how impressed I was and what a good deal it ended up being for me. It was made out of 2" square steel and I had it powdercoated gloss black. I will skin it soon hopefully. Let me also add driving home with a 48" x 48" x 36" steel stand strapped to the top of my trooper was a lot of fun...:eek1: I am also using some of weatherson's light box design for my lights. I have 4 - PFO 250 DE pendents running with Icecap ballasts and Phoenix 14K Lights. I plan on mounting them to the ceiling above the tank with some type of pulley to pull them up and out of the way. The middle part between the pendents will have an alluminum sheet where I will mount the ballasts. The tank was supposed to be done today but was pushed back until next wednesday. It is being built by Tenecor and being a local AZ customer the price was the best I got buy quite a bit. It will be all 3/4 acrylic with a 1/4 black piece laminated to the rear. I will be running 2 closed loop systems each using OceansMotions 4 way's, 4 thru the top corners and 4 up thru the bottom of the tank. The 2 return lines will be using 2 wavy seas for a little more random current. I had planned on using Sequence Darts for the 2 closed loop systems and a Baracuda for the return line but might flip flop and use the dart for the return instead. Anyway here are a few pictures of what I have done so far.
I'm hoping to have something like sonofgaladriel's setup. If I had the extra money he's the guy I would of had built the stand and canopy. So needless to say I will be trying my hardest to copy his design. I had a local reefer named Keith Jackson make my stand out of steel and he does excellent work. He built it in a day and delivered it to the powdercoaters for me. I can't tell you how impressed I was and what a good deal it ended up being for me. It was made out of 2" square steel and I had it powdercoated gloss black. I will skin it soon hopefully. Let me also add driving home with a 48" x 48" x 36" steel stand strapped to the top of my trooper was a lot of fun...:eek1: I am also using some of weatherson's light box design for my lights. I have 4 - PFO 250 DE pendents running with Icecap ballasts and Phoenix 14K Lights. I plan on mounting them to the ceiling above the tank with some type of pulley to pull them up and out of the way. The middle part between the pendents will have an alluminum sheet where I will mount the ballasts. The tank was supposed to be done today but was pushed back until next wednesday. It is being built by Tenecor and being a local AZ customer the price was the best I got buy quite a bit. It will be all 3/4 acrylic with a 1/4 black piece laminated to the rear. I will be running 2 closed loop systems each using OceansMotions 4 way's, 4 thru the top corners and 4 up thru the bottom of the tank. The 2 return lines will be using 2 wavy seas for a little more random current. I had planned on using Sequence Darts for the 2 closed loop systems and a Baracuda for the return line but might flip flop and use the dart for the return instead. Anyway here are a few pictures of what I have done so far.
two of those make my office seem like a tanning salon 
