Plywood desk aquarium
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Thank you, I wanted the best of both worlds with this tank. I wanted to see them from the typical side/front view and I wanted the pond /over head view as well. I made an aquarium before this one that served as a coffee table and only had a view of top down. I liked it so much i wanted a little more of a view from above.
This is the coffee table aquarium I did just before the desk. I made it in a steampunk style to reference the early days of fish keeping but still have a touch of present day to it. It is plywood that was painted to look like steel on the inside then coated in clear sweetwater epoxy, has leather sides and all the wood trim and base is cherry. The filtration is in that center brass tower and is a pvc canister filter. I have all my plumbing run thru copper pipe but no water has any contact with any of the metals. It is a donut basically with the center area being dry for the filter. One challange I had with this tank was keeping the water oxygenated since almost no surface area has contact with air. I resolved this by adding an airstone under one of the lids that adds oxygen to the water and then sends it around the tank. I was worried about airbubbles getting under the glass from this but havent had any troubles as of yet. This one posed a ton of design issues but came out pretty well. I do not have any fish in it at the moment because I will be moving soon and the filtration system isnt quite what i want it to be yet.
I am currently maxed out on aquariums in my little apartment so I have to wait till I get a house before I unload all my creativity into another aquarium. I am for sure wanting a bigger and more attractive desk aquarium so i will prob sell the current one. I also def want a nice sized planted tank for my bedroom and of course a monster tank or two for my man cave. Also a pond for outside.
Thank you. Unfortunately I did not take any picks when I had fish in it. I only had it set up for a short time and then I had to take it apart to move it from my school into my apartment and never filled it back up. Once I get my house though it will be in my living room. I originally planned to stock it with some kind of eel or maybe a dragon goby but both of those get to big for the size of this tank so I may stock it with fancy goldfish and if they outgrow it ill move them to my main goldfish tank or pond (when its built).
