Firereef Shallow island build...

[firereef310]

Thought I'd share here too...

Always wanted a shallow tank and finally after a bad crash, Its time to rebuild my reef from scratch. I ordered my steel stand today so it should be ready this weekend

Dimensions:

Advanced Acrylics
60'X 32'X 14' tall

3/4 thickness

Airbrushed black back:

Flow:

2x mp40w

Tunze wavebox

Undecided on return pump.

3X bags of Caribsea aragonite sand( might get 2 more bags if 3 isn't enough).

My monster:

More to come...

So this is what the island will be made of(everything used will also be reef safe product incase the island for some reason falls in the water).

*Mini pond liner(OSH)
*Sand(Caribsea)
*Reef glue(Boston aqua farms)
*Hut and trees(Michaels art and craft)
*Live rock
*PVC
*My strong arms and hands(lol)

Glued the edges of the pond liner to hide the black edges...

Added live rock to save sand...

Almost done...

Will add more trees later Enjoy!

SUMP

*Advanced Acrylics
*3 sides black
*fuge
*blah, blah, blah...

couple more pics of the left side aquascape...

Black Carbon reactor and Black sand for the refugium to match the sumps 3 black sides...

New clear Rodi unit cartrdges(Had the all white style before)...

Heres an idea of what the sump will look like...

Just an idea of how big my sump is(Im 6ft 3)...

The setup when I get my stand...

Ill be using my 1/3hp chiller that I had on my 180g...

My bandsaw...

And the Ipod sound system that was suppose to be on my 120g(going to mount this on my stand)...

Self adhesive hooks for my carbon reactor...

Right side aquascape...

Stand delivery...

An idea of how big the stand is...

The plumbing...

I added a fan above the chiller area to keep it cool when the doors are closed...

The stand...

With the sump...

Background lights...

I was to tired to finish the plumbing. It should be done tmrw...

Withe the stand doors(they pop on and off and swing in and out)...

The doors have little cuts on the bottom to make them easy to pull out...

ENJOY!

Installing the chiller...

Got wires? uuugh...

DJ strip(guitar center)...

This is how it looks now...

Tried my best to hide the wires...

 

[firereef310]

Self adhesive hooks for my carbon reactor...

Right side aquascape...

Stand delivery...

An idea of how big the stand is...

The plumbing...

I added a fan above the chiller area to keep it cool when the doors are closed...

The stand...

With the sump...

Background lights...

I was to tired to finish the plumbing. It should be done tmrw...

Withe the stand doors(they pop on and off and swing in and out)...

The doors have little cuts on the bottom to make them easy to pull out...

ENJOY!
Installing the chiller...

Got wires? uuugh...

DJ strip(guitar center)...

This is how it looks now...

Tried my best to hide the wires...

Heres an update before I go into my no more sleep mode. London is a handful, but I love her

here are some updates while I await my lights in the mail...

got label happy...

added another dj power strip...

here are the two lucky crabbys...

In the water...

on the island...

Added my favorite artist on the back wall...(Bob Marley)

heres one more...

Added fish today...

livestock so far...

Fish:
3 convict tangs, 1 clown tang, 1 powder blue tang, 1 yellow tang, 1 lyretail anthias(soon to be given away), 7 pink skunk clowns, and 2 chromis.

Crabs:
2 ghetto socal crabs
5 hermits

snails:
10 Nass
10 marguerita
5 orange shell( forgot the names)

coral:
zoas galore for around the island
dendro
clam
orange plate

Few more pics before my lights come in...

Some zoas that will grow around the island...

Enjoy!
Added this cleaner goby for my tangs and added a blue tang that I got from a local friend...

Tangs lovin the red algae...

Snails on the island...

Bought my lfs frogskin showpiece...

Cool dual digital light timers that I found at OSH...

Closed position...

Lights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had to use my sons room divider thingy to keep ceiling crumbs from falling in my tank(installing lights)...

Covered the light hanging cords with leaves to hide it. The hanging wires were not cute. Still trying to figure out how to hide the light power cords...

This is where I mounted the timers...

Couple tank shots...

Tang getting clean...

My baby girl...

 

[bullitr]

Wow
All in one post
Good looking baby Tanu!

 

[zigginit]

no pics?!?!?!?!

 

[reefsUP]

+1 on the pictures

 

[firereef310]

I will re-do when I have time. I just copied and posted from rc. Maybe that's why.

 

[bullitr]

There is a lot of picture ?

 

[-=Mach=-]

Very nice and creative build :congrats:

 

[sklywag]

Still waiting for pictures.

 

[Nanoreefbro]

:ttiwwop:

 

[adam1121]

Thats probably one of the coolest tanks i have ever seen. How are you liking those leds? which ones did you get?

 

[Luwe2008]

Very Nice Tank

 

[swavings]

For the people that can view the pics, what browser are you using?

I have tried all of the different forums that he has this post in, and I cant find one picture.

 

[adam1121]

Im using mozilla firefox.

 

[Nanoreefbro]

So am I but I dont see a thing...

 

[DETANE]

whats the link to RC to view the tank? I tried 3 different browsers here and cant see a thing..

 

[swavings]

Detane, for some reason the link to the reef central is not allowing me to view the pics either. here is the link:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=17537831

 

[sklywag]

I can't doing anything but view text on RC. In fact. This is what I see on every page on RC.
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Did a search for Firereef Shallow island build. It looks like that's the only forum he's posted it on.