12 Foot Monster Acrylic Setup

[jandb]

Very nice,
stock list and filtration pics as well please

I've decided to do as many kinds of Geos and Severums I can get along with a couple different kinds of acaras including bandits, some hecklii, true parrots and specs (thanks to Jeff Rapps for all these guys). I got a handful of quarter sized wide bars from Jojo at Ichiban I'm growing out and some random stuff like uruas that fit the theme. I have a Rubbermaid 100 gallon stock tank I'll touch on later for the sump

 

[jandb]

None of these pics are good but here are some pics of random grow outs. Much to my wife's chagrin I have about a dozen tanks going right now to qt and grow out fish
Here's rotkeil and emeralds from Jeff Rapps.

 

[jandb]

Pic of the stand being built. My daughter and I made a tent during a break. 12' seemed a lot longer when the stand was built versus just laying it out with a tape measure

 

[jandb]

 

[jandb]

You can see the stock tank next to it. I built it so it could be removed if need be.

 

[jandb]

That hole isn't supposed to be in the wall but the tank had to get downstairs somehow. I bribed my friends with drinks again and told them I figured it may take a half an hour. Three hours, one 4'x3' hole in the wall and what seemed like a thousand steps the tank was in the basement.

 

[jandb]

I left it kind of in the middle of the floor so I could work around it. I needed to remove all of the paint, buff it and drill the tank for a Beananimal Overflow. Amazingly the original owner chose not to drill when he ordered the tank. He was running an HOB overflow into a wet dry along with 3 FX5s. It worked out better because I didn't want to deal with dursos again (my planted 340 has those) or have some odd overfkow configuration. I planned on doing kind of a modified coast to coast design.

 

[jandb]

The hob overflows ran out of these small boxes. They were mounted on sandwiched pieces of acrylic. I tried everything from pulling them off to using a hacksaw, grinding wheel and multitool. I wanted to make sure I didn't rattle the tank apart removing them so eventually I just slowly cut them off with a hack saw. No fun there.

 

[jandb]

Patched!

 

[asteele.19]

Do you mind sharing what you paid for the tank? I like keeping track of large tank prices in the great lakes region.