Tank Build! 400 gallon build

Thanks... my challenge is going to be convincing my wife. She wants the trim to be painted a lighter color. I may try to grab some cheap trim pieces today to paint and stain and then just velcro them onto the wall to see how things look.

 

To clarify, the wood paneling we were looking at for the wall would be more of a lighter gray so it wouldn't look so heavy. The walls are a light gray and the granite is white with black, gray, and brown through it.

We were looking at something like like this:

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But maybe that's too much going on and simple cleaner lines around the tank would look better.

 

Thanks everyone! I stained a couple pieces of scrap wood the color of the cabinets and stuck them on the wall temporarily. It looked significantly better than the white trim that's in the rest of the house. So I got her sold on that idea.

 

Well I finally got the trim done. Still have to touch up the nail holes and the cabinets where we had to remove the floating shelves. My phone must have done something funny with the color balancing because the trim and the cabinets don't like this light in person.

It makes such a huge difference in person, I'm really kicking myself for not getting to this sooner. Good call everyone on going with the darker trim to match the surrounding woodwork.

 

Probably should have added this in here earlier.. I got the Rubbermaid swapped out with a sump a couple months ago. Sump was made from @jeremy 's old 120g reef ready tank.

 

Heh yeah I got started in this crazy hobby 8 years ago with a 120g with those same dimensions. It seemed ridiculously huge at the time! I'm already thinking the 400g doesn't seem that big anymore!