acropoorer

I'm building a new 360 gal tank to replace my 180. Thought I would post some pictures of my progress and a description of what I'm building for people that may find interest. The tank is 42"X72"X30", 3/4" glass, Starphire on three sides with a 1" pvc bottom, rimless (had to be rimless after suffering 4 years with the oceanic center brace). Two waterfall exteral overflows (Soon to be done cleaning overflow slots of algae).

The stand is laminated 3/4" plywood and will be oak covered with euro style cabinetry. The hood is 3/4" oak plywood and will house 3 luminarc reflectors with 400 watt MH, 6-6' t12 vho actinic and 4-2' t12 vho actinic.

The glass came from Glass Cages and the pvc & acrylic from Regal Plastics. Special thanks to Don Duncan and Micheal Davis for helping me Glue up the glass.

The base without the final top sheet of plywood. Note the glue lam structure in pic two - use strips of plywood screwed and glued. This was used instead of solid lumber as it is stronger, lighter and more stable.

View of corner glue lams

Base with routed pvc bottom and box overflows. Note that the overflow boxes are angled as the tank backs up to a curved wall.

The waterfall overflow cuts in back glass. About 15" X 1" each. Drill holes at each end and two saw cuts.

Set in place and taped for silicon -- dry run before glueing

Glued up. Note the two nylon ropes to "clamp" glass. These need to be tight (used double loop for leverage).

Note the masking tape which is used for fingered silicon seal which leaves uniform edge -- remove while wet.

Silicon on the overflows. Note that black film was applied first and the boxes are glued in two spots - a joint around the overflow slot and to the pvc bottom. Looking in from the front only the black film is visible -- totally clean look!

The hood, 3/4" plywood with an angle to reduce the bulk

The tank after 48hr water check with hood in place to check fit (still needs to be cut to size).

The Pukani dry rock on 38"x68" piece of plywood (240 lbs). Very light weight rock, almost to much for the tank.

All for now. Still a lot of work to do, months...

You mean the new chalice isn't the one in the picture. By the way Cliff, I have your old sps. Think this is one of them.

Derry,

Sand placement may be ok for florida's but not for Yuma's. The Yuma doesn't split, it moves slowly across a rock or hard surface and leaves stringers of it's foot that morph into babies. I've attached a pic of a pink yuma with a baby. The baby is the small green crescent spot right of the mama. It has since grown and turned pink. Florida's split, but mine are all attached to rocks and split fine on rock. If you are in a hurry and brave you can cut them into pieces, but in general they are all slow at growing and reproducing. I've heard of people cutting both types into quarters with a razor for fast reproduction (keep part of the mouth on each cut). They generally like a fair amount of light.

Not sure which type you have but sounds like a florida

Looks like a blue/green tenius (aka rosco).

Would like one or more of the tri colors. Do you still have some left?

I'll be there, sorry for the late notice.

-Acropoorer