UPDATE on 5 gallon acyrlic...

cmc3502

cmc3502

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If any of you saw the early post when I was making this thing, heres an update... I had the tank up for about 3 months and then decieded that there were a few changes I needed to make for the sake of evaporation, strength and water flow...
So I replaced the back wall to a solid piece, no sump.. and moved the powerheads inside the tank for better flow and so that I can move them around until I like the results. I also placed a eurobrace on the top for strength and evaporation issues.. Please let me know what you think....


 
cmc3502

cmc3502

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yea...thats a little mini fan to the right and you can see the overhead of my desk at work... the front panel of the tank is only 6" tall
 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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Can you plz tell me how high, wide, and long the tank is without the stand and canopy. At fist i thot it was like a 100-200 gallon tank LOL. I told my brother to gess how many gallons it was and he said its 100-200 gallons LOL. What kind of lights and how many watts is it under and what kind of pumps do you have? Is it going to be a reef tank? Are you going to keep fish in there? Put a dollar bill near it and tank a pic of it. Its looking awesome!! Keep up the good work!
 
cmc3502

cmc3502

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the tank itself is 30"x6"x6"... it start out as an idea for a frag tank so that I could use a 30" single power compact light (65w) over it and have great lighting without the cost of a Metal Halide...
Instead I made it into a reef tank idea and used 2 of the nova extreme lighting which are 24W each (i think, maybe a little less then that)...ont arctic and 1 white... I have 4 turbo snails and a few narsirus (spelling) snails also a black yellow tailed damsel... not sure what else will go in there, maybe a goby. Also I'll try and place some xenias in there from my tank at home...just to see if the tank is mature enough for them...
 
sporty99

sporty99

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that tank is bad ass!!!!!!!!! you could sell the snot out of those at a string of lfs . how long did that take you to make ???
 
cmc3502

cmc3502

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actually not that long... although it would even faster with a table saw to cut the acyrlic... I had to be very careful with a jigsaw...it was day project really...
 
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