6 Foot Fish Tank Cabinet

**JDub** · 21st December 2005, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by aiwoz

JDub,

How long can your system look after itself? I currently only do fresh water as it's easier and if started back on a marine system i'd need to let SWMBO how long we could sneak away on holidays etc?

Cheers

about 3 days for my system, after that it needs someone to check in on it...... Too much time and $ to risk it longer than that (about $7-10k I reckon)...... ouch it hurts when I say it out loud

Have a look at the Reefing the Australian way Forums, found at www.masa.asn.au before you take the plunge again

**jow104** · 21st December 2005, 07:16 PM

Enjoyed your thread JDub.

Have you visited the fish keeping forum site?

http://www.fishkeepersforum.org/

**aiwoz** · 21st December 2005, 07:19 PM

JDub,

Don't ever say it out loud, just drift off to sleep as you run all the indivudual $ through your head. That way you are asleep before you reach the total.

**JDub** · 22nd December 2005, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by jow104

Enjoyed your thread JDub.

Have you visited the fish keeping forum site?

http://www.fishkeepersforum.org/

Thanks for the link, havnt kept fresh water for years, have the marine bug now so theres no going back Im afraid

**Harry72** · 22nd December 2005, 02:07 PM

If you keep making these tank stands for freinds... soon you'll be Australia's leading authority on making

tank stands!(prob already are)
Nice work Dub

**JDub** · 26th March 2007, 04:58 PM

Well Im currently designing a new tank for the living room so am building a new cabinet and hood to go with it!!! And Ive even got my new shed (and the code

) to help me along the way

not to mention the new tools (triton etc etc) to play with

Some progress pics: Its basically the same as the 6 foot one earlier in the thread, only design change is Ive left the hood open topped to decrease the reliance on exhaust fans.

The tank will be a cubed 350L hard coral (SPS) marine tank. See here for more details: http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/viewto...=357875#357875

Pics: Frame of Hood and Cabinet:

**JDub** · 26th March 2007, 05:01 PM

And the stucture all but complete, now gotta seal, stain, estapol etc etc

Side of Cabinet and top of hood in foreground:

Hood (again minus doors and removable side panels)

And all the doors and removable side panels (to be fitted after finishing/staining etc)

**Bleedin Thumb** · 26th March 2007, 05:16 PM

Mate you need help! You are obviously suffering from JASLT syndrome.

That stands for Just a slightly larger tank...

Looks great so far, you will have to be more careful spraying mossie spray around with the open hood.
Will your tank have drain pipes and topup connections or do you siphon by hand, (sorry I'm ignorant about marine tanks)

**richo69** · 26th March 2007, 05:38 PM

Hey Joel,

Watcha doing over here ? - get back to MASA

350LT cube? that sounds great, is it a replacement or an addition to your 6fter?

richo69

**JDub** · 26th March 2007, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb

Mate you need help! You are obviously suffering from JASLT syndrome.

That stands for Just a slightly larger tank...

Looks great so far, you will have to be more careful spraying mossie spray around with the open hood.
Will your tank have drain pipes and topup connections or do you siphon by hand, (sorry I'm ignorant about marine tanks)

SWMBO wont let me spray mossie spray in the house even I wanted too, she hates the stuff.....

Top up water resevoir will be plumbed in via float valve to deal with the evaporation.
The overflow into the wier and then to the sumps will be via a manifold (with ball valves) that can be turned on and off for water changes

Eg turn off valve from tank to sump and turn on valve from tank to water change buckets. make sense? Will post a pic when its done.

**JDub** · 26th March 2007, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by richo69

Hey Joel,

Watcha doing over here ? - get back to MASA

350LT cube? that sounds great, is it a replacement or an addition to your 6fter?

richo69

LOL, MASA is slow today and im wasting time at work

Its a replacement, have sold the 6 footer and am going with this smaller but more specialized system

Eg. Eurobraced, more powerful lighting, more flow, lower fish loads, heavier skimming, higher end corals etc etc.

Im sure most of this crap is boring the hell out of the WW's here... 'stupid fish geeks' is what they are thinking right about now.... arnt ya?

Righto then, I will go read a thread about SCMS and Sheds so I get my mind back onto WWing and other suitably blokey matters.

**PuppyPaw** · 26th March 2007, 06:14 PM

What are you doing reading threads when you should be out there in the shed finishing the stand and hood?

**JDub** · 26th March 2007, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by PuppyPaw

What are you doing reading threads when you should be out there in the shed finishing the stand and hood?

Originally Posted by JDub

im wasting time at work

Believe me, I would rather be in my shed than here

**PuppyPaw** · 26th March 2007, 06:28 PM

ah, good spot there, glade someone is actually reading these things!

**Bleedin Thumb** · 26th March 2007, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by JDub

Its a replacement, have sold the 6 footer and am going with this smaller but more specialized system

Eg. Eurobraced, more powerful lighting, more flow, lower fish loads, heavier skimming, higher end corals etc etc.

Sooooo your down sizing ....... this could be even more serious than I initially thought.............

I thought your 6 footer was pretty dagned nice, which means we have very high expectations for this one.............no pressure mind.

Ps I hope Dorey and the eel didn't get sold with the tank.

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