~~ Thread of the Month ~~ Ghetto Tanks!

[reefarchitect]

Ok, I know I can not compare to some of the more elaborate ghettofied setups of my fellow reefers, but I think it's funny nonetheless. I am in the process of setting up my most recent reef and a friend of mine was moving out of state and gave me about 17 individual shrooms. Having nowhere to put them, I had to settle for a hamster tank sitting on my kitchen counter. It's right under a hi-hat for lighting and oxygenation/water movement is courtesy of a $3.00 airpump. All items in the pic were purchased at wal-mart for a total invesment of about $6.00 making this probably the most inexpensive reef setup on RC ~ The substrate is some old aragonite I had sitting around. This picture was taken about 6 weeks after setup.


Oh well, picture won't load so hopefully my description gives you a visual. If I get it to work, I'll post the pic later.

AJL

 

[chrismunn]

i hold no candle....

 

[tgfrench]

Love this thread so i'm bitting the bullet:

My DI/Kalkreactor unit

 

[alphaferret]

nice bucket use

 

[Paul B]

I don't know if this qualifies but a lot of my rock is New York City asphalt that was dumped in the ocean years ago. It is the piece with the coraline algae all over it and the star polyps.
Paul

 

[chrismunn]

well i just gave my tank a few mods, but im not sure that it actually qualifies as ghetto

 

[SunnyX]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys make me look like leonardo davinci .

LobsterOfJustice, you take the cake. Better yet you take the ice cream too.

 

[Saltz Creep]

well i just gave my tank a few mods, but im not sure that it actually qualifies as ghetto

Not ghetto! A skimmer right up front in your display. Just bad placement. Although the boards propping your lights is a bit ghettoesque

 

[willra]

I'd say a skimmer right in front in your display is pretty ghetto..

chrismunn - nice tank!!

 

[danieljames]

Was told i should post this over on another thread. 26 bow on an old desk.

 

[Saltz Creep]

That custom light rack is so high, you may just as well have attached the lights to the ceiling. :lol:

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

C'mon Saltz. Fire up the skilsaw on a pile of 2 X4's and jump in.
You know you want to.

wouldn't you like to have like 5 10 gal tanks all cascaded for a wicked ghetto prop system or something??

Look how easy that tank of DJ's is to work on.

"LUKE! [breath][breath] Come over to the dark side [breath][breath] The ghetto force is strong within you [breath][breath]"

 

[alphaferret]

i try so hard not to be ghetto but some day i will have that fish room everyone dreams(nightmares)about!

 

[gatohoser]

chrismunn,
god are you asking for it with those boards man. I see a wet floor in your future.

If only i could show you guys my first salt tank....The thing had a 20g refugium at equal level to it. It was plumbed on with a rio 200 in each tank pushing water back and forth with a valve adjusting the speed of each one. Needless to say that didnt take long to make a VERY flooded floor. And i thought the LFS guy knew about hydrodynamics

 

[sradmin]

chrismunn,

Nice tank, man. Seriously. Everything in it looks very healthy and it's clean.

 

[chrismunn]

ill have you know that thoes boards proping my light are very secure... I USED SUPERGLUE!

 

[Saltz Creep]

chrismunn,

Nice tank, man. Seriously. Everything in it looks very healthy and it's clean.

That's what I was saying. Nice tank, but it just doesn't have that ghetto appeal.

 

[RocketSeason]

Holy cow chrismunn!

boards secured by superglue? and no supports? Do you want an accident to happen!

 

[chrismunn]

accidents dont happen, CHRIS MUNN happens! aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[chrismunn]

accidents dont happen, CHRIS MUNN happens! aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha