Ordered a tank from LFS complete with custom wood cabinet...8 weeks ago......I have all the equipment waiting to make a start and I have all these ideas of what it should look like but I cannot get going because The damm thing is still at the joiners. I could have built the cabinet and the tank myself for that matter if I'd known it was going to take that long. Please excuse the impatient rant.
Anyway a few posts on here have been keeping my mind active.
I'm not a great lover of equipment showing in tanks (forget the new P&P tanks). A lot of aquarium pics on here and moreso the marine types seem very cluttered with unsightly powerheads etc. I was thinking of buying some black plastic box downpipe (guttering section in the diy store) cutting it to depth of tank...drill a hole for the powerheads outlets to protrude and sticking the Hydor flo's on these. The bottom of these 2x little box structures would have a grill to allow the water into the chamber. (aka juwel tanks in europe) I also plan to place the heater/stat and intake pipe for my eheim canister in there also. Going between the two boxes (back corners) will be the spraybar from the eheim and all you will see is the tube (no elbows or flexi-pipe on view) I am then going to construct a reef rack....2 teir built from http
/tinyurl.com/32xnou
I know it will cut down on space within the tank, but not that much. but I think the aquarium as a whole will look more asthetically pleasing without looking at the clutter of equipment.
Am I bonkers or has anybody else thought of any ingenius ways of obscuring equipment, if so I would love to here from you.
Regards
BigC
Anyway a few posts on here have been keeping my mind active.
I'm not a great lover of equipment showing in tanks (forget the new P&P tanks). A lot of aquarium pics on here and moreso the marine types seem very cluttered with unsightly powerheads etc. I was thinking of buying some black plastic box downpipe (guttering section in the diy store) cutting it to depth of tank...drill a hole for the powerheads outlets to protrude and sticking the Hydor flo's on these. The bottom of these 2x little box structures would have a grill to allow the water into the chamber. (aka juwel tanks in europe) I also plan to place the heater/stat and intake pipe for my eheim canister in there also. Going between the two boxes (back corners) will be the spraybar from the eheim and all you will see is the tube (no elbows or flexi-pipe on view) I am then going to construct a reef rack....2 teir built from http
/tinyurl.com/32xnouI know it will cut down on space within the tank, but not that much. but I think the aquarium as a whole will look more asthetically pleasing without looking at the clutter of equipment.
Am I bonkers or has anybody else thought of any ingenius ways of obscuring equipment, if so I would love to here from you.
Regards
BigC
