Dubber`s in-wall 29 gallon

I've been through quite a few tanks from planted to marine. This will be my last go at it. I finally have a nice place to have a tank where the wife won't complain about it. I'm doing an in wall in my basement office. It has a nice work/furnace room on the back side. I'm giong to try and make this a simple as possible.






[*]Equipment

[*]Standard 20 Gallon Long with Black back and sides
[*]MarcoRocks Reef Sand (Ordered 10/25/14)
[*]MarcoRocks Rocks (Two Island is what I'm hoping for)
[*]Vortech MP10WES (Ordered 10/25/14)
[*]Buildmyled.com 30" 14k Medium Light Fixture with tank mounts and dimmer (Ordered 10/25/14)
[*]AC70 with mediabasket for eventual chemical filtration or possibly fuge (Ordered 10/25/14)
[*]BRS 4 stage RODI with auto shutoff (Ordered 10/25/14)
[*]Cobalt NeoTherm 75 watt heater
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[*]Proposed LIvestock

[*]One or two clowns OR
[*]Goby & Shrimp Pair OR combo of the above
[*]Other Suggestions?
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Future

I hope to keep this as simple as I can
Probably some rics, brains, hammers, etc. Nothing too demanding.
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Previous Tanks

10G Shrimp Tank
20L Planted
55G Planted
2G Fluval reef
72G Bow Planted
72G Bow FOWLR
40G Breeder Mixed Reef
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Here's the wall in which it will be going.








Started the hole in the wall. Mocked up with my old 20 Long. I have a new one waiting for this project.





Gluing and screwing the stand. Needs a few more bracing. I also need to pick up a GFCI outlet.

 

Thanks. I'll be painting the whole back side of the wall and stand with Kilz to seal it.

 

And the goodies start arriving.....











And we have water

















274ppm coming in














Starting to play with the aquascape.











I sealed the stand with Kilz sealer lastnightand plastidipped the back of the new tank. The MP10, heater and sand also arrived yesterday. It's like Christmas.

 

Going with a buildmyled.com 30" hand built LED light.





http://www.buildmyled.com/14000k-reef-spectrum/#





They do burnin and testing and they are hand built to order.

 

I'm kind of surprised people are interested in this honestly. I thought I'd be laughed at for cutting a hole in my wall for a $20 20 long. I wanted to do something different that I hadn't seen before.

 

thanks everyone! Had a mishap with plastidip lastnight. I didn't score the edge before removing the tape I had on to protect the inside of the tank while spraying. It pulled a huge chunk off the glass. I tried to blend in a new patch but it never looked right from the front of the tank. I tore off the dip and started to spray paint it black. I forgot to clean the glass prior to paint so I had dozens of blotches where the paint wouldn't take. I'm on my third coat now and most is covered up. I'm wondering how bad it will look when I eventually fill it and get lights going. Oh well I guess, my fault for getting in a hurry. Time to hurry up and wait for the rest of the stuff to arrive.

 

Busy day today.





Here's a back of the tank shot. The black needs to be touched up. I plan to just get some black in a can and rolling on another couple coats.











That shows the AC70 that I'll have doing mechanical filtration until I get livestock in there. Then I'll get some chaeto and a lamp to make it a fuge and run carbon as well.





If you see above the tank I am making a shelf for the RODI water tank and salt tank. This will also allow me alternative options to hanging a light instead of having it on the tank itself. I plan to put chains and eye bolts to hold the front of the shelf up before I start using it for water storage. The back is already lagged to the three wall studs. I hope to make a plumbing setup on the shelf where I can just pump rodi water to my salt mixing tub then use gravity to to my water change top off. I will just build a simple removable 1/2" PVC tube with many holes to spread out the rush of water.





Here is a front shot from my office. Don't mind the still wet filler putty. I don't claim to be a wood worker, the miters sucked, but will do the job for now.











I will do some caulking in the inside edges to block as much light leak as I can from the light.





My salt is out for delivery so I'll be filling tonight hopefully. I'm also rinsing the sand a bit in RODI water. I will be removing the MP10 prior to filling and just use my cheap aqeon power head until the dust settles.





I got an email from buildmyled.com that my light will be finshed and shipped by November 4th.

 

She's full!

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My mixing station idea for above the tank. It should allow easier top offs and water changes.

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