70 cube

Ok tank will be here Saturday . I went with 30x30x16 from glass cages.

Equipment I have for this are as follows. 1 mp40. Reefkeeper elite, and after much hesitation for lights I ended up going with the maxspect razor 27 inch 160 watt led along with a reef octopus nb110 for the skimmer. Still working on a sump design and return pump.

Once the tank gets here I will start blog with pictures.

Oh and I have a couple coral already, a nice bleeding apple scoly and a couple scans sitting in joes tank.

 

Thanks. I really did not want to go LED as i didnt really care for the SOLs I had but after seeing these and reading great many articles and reviews I felt it was worth a shot. I just hope I am not disappointed and that 1 will be enough light.. I did go with a larger stand for this build, 36x36. I felt this would give me a little more room for equipment with out having to cram it all in there.

Need to work on finding a dosing system and get my reactors ordered.

 

Got my tank today and I got to say I am less then pleased.

The glass is has a green tint not clear, the stand is kinda rough with glue on it and the overflow holes drilled off center.

There are other things that just do not sit well with me and I will be calling them to voice my opinion on their craftsmanship.

I will post pics tomorrow.

 

I didnt go with starfire glass, but i also never have in the past and it was always clear glass. I will be able to fix it all other then the glass and I will make it look nice just not what I was expecting. I did go with glasscages. The delivery was great and someone in des moines was their next stop.

 

Here's a pic.

 

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Having a hard time putting an image from my ipad

 

I need to clean it up but this is the tank, you can see how it sits on the stand becase of where they routered the holes for the overflow. I will fix this come nicer weather so it is centered

 

this size is perfect and once I fix the things on the stand I am sure I will like it much better.

 

I wanted the stand bigger then the tank actually. it is 36x36 and the tank is 30x30. This is mostly so I have more room underneath so I dont have to cram everything under it and fight to work on things.

 

yeah no top at all. There wont be many fish in this tank. As far as the edge around the tank I will be dressing that up with some black contact paper after the stand is stained and the overflow holes are centered the way I envisioned.