Hi R2R,
Thought I'd start a build thread for my beast. Last November I had a disaster with my Marineland 300 gallon ... it broke . Water everywhere, tried saving as much corals and fish as possible but had serious losses. It was awful. The tank was up for almost a year and the corals were JUST starting to really take off.
Decided I never wanted to go through that again and did not want to be defeated. So, I am starting a 310 gallon custom tank in its place (from customaquariums.com). Dimensions are 84" long x 30" wide x 36" high.
I have been waiting months and months to start it as I have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the cabinets around it to be installed. I have been biding my time starting a frag tank and planning where to put the corals. I think I've watched every possible BRS video on aquascaping possible and spent weeks constructing MarcoRocks the way I want them with superglue, then mortar. Then, I found this really cool company on Etsy that sells paint for rock (addictivereefkeeping.com). I was nervous about the paint but I have used it on some rocks that I've put in other tanks and it looks great and did not cause any harm to any critters or corals.
The lower cabinets were just installed, the canopy is next but I thought I'd share the pics of what everything is looking like so far. Can't wait to see this running!!! Hoping to get it filled with a couple of hermit crabs by Halloween. I've had a Brightwell brick in my 125 gallon for 6 months so hopefully the cycle is short.
Thought I'd start a build thread for my beast. Last November I had a disaster with my Marineland 300 gallon ... it broke . Water everywhere, tried saving as much corals and fish as possible but had serious losses. It was awful. The tank was up for almost a year and the corals were JUST starting to really take off.
Decided I never wanted to go through that again and did not want to be defeated. So, I am starting a 310 gallon custom tank in its place (from customaquariums.com). Dimensions are 84" long x 30" wide x 36" high.
I have been waiting months and months to start it as I have been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the cabinets around it to be installed. I have been biding my time starting a frag tank and planning where to put the corals. I think I've watched every possible BRS video on aquascaping possible and spent weeks constructing MarcoRocks the way I want them with superglue, then mortar. Then, I found this really cool company on Etsy that sells paint for rock (addictivereefkeeping.com). I was nervous about the paint but I have used it on some rocks that I've put in other tanks and it looks great and did not cause any harm to any critters or corals.
The lower cabinets were just installed, the canopy is next but I thought I'd share the pics of what everything is looking like so far. Can't wait to see this running!!! Hoping to get it filled with a couple of hermit crabs by Halloween. I've had a Brightwell brick in my 125 gallon for 6 months so hopefully the cycle is short.