Tl:dr - got a baby on the way, decided to give myself a parting gift before 18 years of responsible spending. Im weird. This build is weird and unnecessary in many ways. Love it, hate it. Or Learn what not to do on your next one.
The budget on this bad ma is $500, because your father doesn't have to own a saudi oil field for you to enjoy a glass box full of fish! I've seen some beautiful builds on here where guys almost build their house around a tank. Not this guy. 90g may not be a monster to everyone but it sure looks monster in a tiny 3 room apartment.
Here's the old beast. An AGA 75g from 1994. Got it fo' free because it leaked. I had to reseal it. It's a boss of a tank. But its time for it to go. Currently it has an aqueon quietflow 75g, a fluval 406, fluval 104, and a recently retired ac110 (which btw hate eating sand.) Inhabitants include an unknown number of african cichlids. Most of them bred in substandard wisconsin tapwater by yours truly.
Species include petsmartus cichlidus and a hybrid petcosia-walmartae
The plan is a 90g AGA reef ready w/ a herbie set up running a 40b sump. Pump is a mag 9.5. Ill be reusing my heaters and crappy lights/glass top from the 75.
get some wood and saw it up. I reccomend a miter saw. I tried to boss it up with a circular saw.
I used construction grade 2x4s. You know the subpar warped crap from the big box store. Got alot of wood for free from work in the form of industrial shipping crates. The free wood was better.
A bunch of crap on the stand. I let the wood sit for a few days and checked the level before continuing.
The budget on this bad ma is $500, because your father doesn't have to own a saudi oil field for you to enjoy a glass box full of fish! I've seen some beautiful builds on here where guys almost build their house around a tank. Not this guy. 90g may not be a monster to everyone but it sure looks monster in a tiny 3 room apartment.
Here's the old beast. An AGA 75g from 1994. Got it fo' free because it leaked. I had to reseal it. It's a boss of a tank. But its time for it to go. Currently it has an aqueon quietflow 75g, a fluval 406, fluval 104, and a recently retired ac110 (which btw hate eating sand.) Inhabitants include an unknown number of african cichlids. Most of them bred in substandard wisconsin tapwater by yours truly.
Species include petsmartus cichlidus and a hybrid petcosia-walmartae
The plan is a 90g AGA reef ready w/ a herbie set up running a 40b sump. Pump is a mag 9.5. Ill be reusing my heaters and crappy lights/glass top from the 75.
get some wood and saw it up. I reccomend a miter saw. I tried to boss it up with a circular saw.
I used construction grade 2x4s. You know the subpar warped crap from the big box store. Got alot of wood for free from work in the form of industrial shipping crates. The free wood was better.
A bunch of crap on the stand. I let the wood sit for a few days and checked the level before continuing.