My 180 In-Wall Project Coming Together

[Slim2634]

My old 55 being drained. My mom now has this tank and all the fish that are in it until this 180 is cycled


Just the bare wall ready to be cut


Dry wall is cut. Guy in the number 2 shirt is my uncle, carpenter/cabinet maker is his job.


Cutting the studs


Studs are gone!


The view from where the tank will be.


My dad painting the back, right after we lifted this sucker and placed it into the wall.


Pre-trim


Pre-trim picture with water and 6 feeders in it. They will get a 500 gallon pond when all is said and done


Here is the 180 how it could have been. Still have the stand and canopy for when I move out.

I got the 180 about a month ago. I thought it would be a sweet idea to put it into the wall. I am a full time college student that lives with my dad and he is wicked cool so he went ahead and helped out. This tank has 2, 1.5 inch drains. I just added the driftwood today which is still floating. My dad patched around the tank about ten minutes ago and tomorrow the trim goes up! I'm very excited. Once the driftwood sinks and I get some used media from my old 55 to seed this sucker I will give it about a week or so and slowly move the fish I am keeping over to the 180. If you have questions about the setup just ask. Thanks for looking

 

[Slim2634]

By the way for anyone wondering I am not in any of these pics.

 

[Matt724]

sweet! always wanted an inwall tank. do you know what you want in it?

 

[Slim2634]

Most likely just gonna put an oscar, a few of my cichlids, my senegal bichir, my channel cat (a baby right now) I have a future home for him, and I thought maybe a lima and another bichir. I just thought an albino oscar would look good in there since the back is painted black.

 

[Piranha101]

I have two 180 gallon tanks also I just got finished with my 10,000 pond gallon with 3 pacu,2 oscars and 2 silver arowana all of which I moved from my 2,500 gallon pond they won't be in there for long cause the winter is almost here so I will be building a 1,000 gallon tank in my basement for the winter

 

[Slim2634]

I have two 180 gallon tanks also I just got finished with my 10,000 pond gallon with 3 pacu,2 oscars and 2 silver arowana all of which I moved from my 2,500 gallon pond they won't be in there for long cause the winter is almost here so I will be building a 1,000 gallon tank in my basement for the winter

Nice! I'd like to build about a 12x8x3 next spring, but we'll see how money works out then.

 

[Griller]

In-wall always looks good. Going to frame it?

 

[Slim2634]

In-wall always looks good. Going to frame it?

Ya we have 20 feet of trim waiting to go up now. My dad stained and clear coated it to match the rest of the basement. Going up tomorrow pics by friday!

 

[The Amazonian]

Sweet

 

[Slim2634]

Just a small update with the driftwood. Waiting for it to sink and create enough territories for my cichlids to get along lol.