DIY projects

Hey everybody,
Well, im new here, and this is my first blog..... EVER. Anyways, I found this site from an extremely hepful diy on melevesreef about building with acrylic. Just finished doing a sump on my girlfriends tank. All seems to be well with it, and I'm very happy with the outcome. Ill definately be posting pics and info on it all soon. But, the basics are that we both have a 20 gallon reef tank that has become an obsession. Anyways, that's it for now, and there'll be tons more very ...

After some discussion with my better half, I recently started purchasing components for my next tank!

The tank will be an Oceanic 75g RR with a yet undetermined size sump/fuge underneath.

Lighting will be a DIY LED build and will consist of:

• 30 x CREE XP-E Royal Blue
• 10 x CREE XP-E Blue
• 20 x CREE XP-G Neutral White R3

The lighting will be driven by 6 Thomas Research Products Drivers - 4x 25W for the blues and 2x 38W for the whites.
Lighting will be dimmable ...

Hey guys,

I had a few questions about the proper way to resilicone an old tank. I have a new to me 75 gallon tank which made it into a few pictures on here previously (link). The silicone between the glass panels is fine. However, the silicone around the internal portion of the tank has gotten beat up and scraped into by its former owner. As such I am uncomfortable with using the tank before I attempt to fix the silicone. However, I want to do this correctly and have a few questions. ...

It's been awhile since my last post and my 180 is up and running. After 6 months im glad to finally have a few pieces of livestock in the tank. So far it consists of 4 pj's 2 firefish 4 turbo snails and 10 red leg hermit crabs. Going to be adding to the clean up crew over the next month and will wait till the tanks been running for awhile longer before I start adding any corals. After having issues with the sand I feel that i probally didnt clean it well enough before adding it to the main tank ...

I thought I'd share how I built my nano tank for my daughter. This was originally going to be a seahorse tank but I found out later it was too short.

1st I laid out the design I wanted, I wanted something different to show off some acrylic skills.



2nd I made a cardboard template so when I bent the acrylic I could make sure the 1 piece side was correct.

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