the white trash way to build a small tank

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okay so heres how it goes, sorry cant explain the gaps in the pics but just simply stating, i was drinking when all this went together.

ok this is what you get from homedepot for $7...
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Can you see what I see?

Measure it up.
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Cut it up and look what I got....
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drill a few other holes for some motion maker and seal the sob in, cut the grooves up top for the overflow, and here it is.....
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Fill it with sand and water
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then go out to the garage and grab random metal halide and throw it up top with some bricks to give it that real white trash look....
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the surface agitation...
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Frags
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Five hours after set up, and look how clear the water is.....
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whaddya think?
 
Actually looks quite nice. At first glance, I thought that was a Niger Trigger in the clouded tank picture. I realized it was your hydor flow device later. Hope that your random halide will grow corals, it looks yellow in the pics. Nice job.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8927351#post8927351 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jmcmahon66
Actually looks quite nice. At first glance, I thought that was a Niger Trigger in the clouded tank picture. I realized it was your hydor flow device later. Hope that your random halide will grow corals, it looks yellow in the pics. Nice job.
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yeah i think it will, its a 175 watt metal halide with a pure white buld 20 in it, i think it will do just fine... i'm going to add two 18 inch actinics to it, hopefully it will get rid of that **** yellow look..
 
very nice. love the ingenuity. keep us updated with pics as it comes along, would love to see it mature.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8928222#post8928222 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MrMexReefer
AWESOME tank! haha great post man. So, does the new mailbox look like an acrylic overflow? lol
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almost identical... it even has the same texture, kinda weird....
 
silicone

silicone

Whiskey Tango,

Nice work. You had clear water within 5 hours - great. How long did you let your silicone cure? 1 hr or 24?

I've got a project ready to go back in the tank, and I don't feel like waiting the full 24 if I don't have to.
 
Re: silicone

Re: silicone

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8929164#post8929164 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by keithdoc
Whiskey Tango,

Nice work. You had clear water within 5 hours - great. How long did you let your silicone cure? 1 hr or 24?

I've got a project ready to go back in the tank, and I don't feel like waiting the full 24 if I don't have to.
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i only waited a few hours, probably two at the max....
 
People can say what they want about your ingenuity but I had to spend 100.00 on an interior overflow box today. That mailbox looks mighty appealing at this point ! :lol:

Very nice job, indeed !

I'd rather have a thrifty tank than no tank at all.

Can't wait to see it at 6 months !
 
I thought that was a niger trigger too. What a relief to see what it was a few pics later! Don't forget the beer bottle.
 
Pardon my asking, but what's the difference between white trash and redneck? I think it would be a hoot if someone made a big redneck reef similar to yours, with functional equipment but leaning heavily toward humorously tacky looking, like a Jeff Foxworthy joke. you could use hub caps for light reflectors and the stand could be made of cinder blocks.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8931106#post8931106 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Houtz
Pardon my asking, but what's the difference between white trash and redneck? I think it would be a hoot if someone made a big redneck reef similar to yours, with functional equipment but leaning heavily toward humorously tacky looking, like a Jeff Foxworthy joke. you could use hub caps for light reflectors and the stand could be made of cinder blocks.
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well im not sure the difference, but i do know this.... I dont pay full price for anything, it doesnt show in the things that i have, but i just make it look that way.....For instance, total cost to build this nano tank is right at $50, and thats including the frags and the live rock and pretty much everything you see. I sold an old tank that i got for free and that paid for most of the stuff...Except the light, i got that from a buddy who was using it to light up his backyard, then i called another friend who happens to be an electrician and told him to bring me home a bulb, and now im waiting for him to bring me the actinics, and a blue buld to replace the MH light i have now. And all i am doing now is just building me a mini reef for practice, I'm currently building my own custom house "trailer" in a higher end neighborhood down here in texas, the only difference is, im only building the shell of the house and doing the entire inside myself, why i'll have $200,000 invested with a neighbor thats house is worth in the millions. (and in this house is going to be dual 250 gallon tanks with a 250 gallon refugium, and my entire budget for said project ive allowed is $5000). So for all the haters out there that think it cant be done, i shall prove them wrong. I just ran into four 1000 gph sump pumps for free, and a decorative lamp that im going to turn into my calcium reactor, and then im going to build my own chiller, the setup i have now for 90 gallons cost me $12, so im hoping to keep it in the $200 range for the big setup. But to answer your question about the beer bottle, the wife won't let me..... dang it....
 
how much do you want a bet he went mailbox smashing the night before he put that together and took one clean off its stand?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8943321#post8943321 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by srieger
how much do you want a bet he went mailbox smashing the night before he put that together and took one clean off its stand?
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HaHAHAHHAHA, actually everyone wised up and put up metal boxes instead of plastic ones.... too sad...... HAHAHAHAHAH

and thanks for the compliments fellers....
 
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