100 gal community

[BobK]

Wow, sounds like quite an engineering project. It looks fantastic!

 

[andywg]

Fufanu360

The old hood only had a couple of lights (like kitchen tubes) in there and I love real plants, therefore I needed something that would let me put the extra tubes (I planto eventually put another 2-4 tubes in there) as well as my obligatory moonlight blue LEDs (if only they would come out in the photos).

Also, the old canopy was done with Iron on edging and faces, I wanted a lighter, more natural finish so used 12mm ply and used quarter mouldings for the corners and half round mouldings for any edges and then sanded all joins down to a gentle curve.

Paul v Biker

I have had absolutely no problem with the standpipe, how's yours going, did you fix the splashing from the trickle tower? The only problem I had was with the weir making some dribbles, but I fixed that with some filter floss behind the weir just above the level of the water.

FISHAREFUN

It certainly was. If I was to be entirely honest it took longer than I wanted but probably less than it should. Still, we all have 20/20 hindsight

I'm glad you all like it and have taken some interest in my "baby".

Hmm, now if I were to sneak into Paul v Bikers house with some chloroform...it would only take a small army to move his tank and set it up...well, I don't need a bed.

 

[samthefishman]

TOTM for me! although votes dont really count ne more cos they stopped. But if it were still going i nom yours.

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

beautiful tank!

 

[andywg]

Thank you peoples. It's not finished yet, I've got to do quite a bit more planting nad there's a few fish coming (mostly just bumping up schools).

Still. Now I'll have to find a new house so I can fit an even bigger tank in. I wonder just how big 2,000 gallons really is... B)

 

[Snowie]

Great dimensions I wish they made more tanks like that.

Keep the pics comming!

 

[Paul_MTS]

I got rid of my bodge stand pipe as it didn't really work for me, I now have mywater level stabalised 2" from the top of the wier, which is pretty much silent now,

You just have th water gushing past the gate valve but atleast the noise doesn't change like a gurgle!!

 

[andywg]

Well, Here's a few more pics after fitting the doors to the stand.

We had to do that because of the impending arrival of these kittens

First, with flash

 

[andywg]

Flash off.

 

[Vip]

Very cool pics, i love pic by pic progress of tanks, i really want a setup like that so i dont have to put a heater in the main tank or filters in there.

 

[andywg]

And this is how the room normally looks (except it's not usually as tidy as this ) )

Next up is the refit of the 4ft 30gal for the dwarf puffers.

Hope you all enjoy.

I'd show some of the fish inside but I can't get any good pictures of them. oh well.

 

[andywg]

VIP, it's fantastic not having to put the heaters or filter intakes in the tank, however the cost... That'd make me seriously think twice before doing it again...(though if I do get another tank this size i'd go for it anyway, don't like the idea of multiple cannister filters).

It is nice doing the step by step, and i'm glad you enjoyed it cos in the next 30mins I'm putting up my construction of my betta's tank.

See ya there!

 

[BichirKeeper]

Wonderful work! It looks great!

 

[Opcn]

Very Nice tank

 

[mwm]

Really nice looking tank!!