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two weeks later fish added now for some pimp my tank style going on i made a custom sliding roof rail for the halides and a pair of bose cube monitors for the soothing sounds of fat freddys and other chilled music passive radiators make lots of mid-bass and no need for a sub that can ennoy your fish, i hate putting anything in the tank thats vibrating like powerheads ect.. it really does stress the fish out

plants arranged and scaped i ran my eheim to a large container and fed it food to keep the cycle going while i transferred the plants and setup the tank (around two weeks) filled to the brimm (took over an hour to fill) next couple of days when the sand storm died down left middle right

8inch's of substrate at the back and the 3d terrace holds it in place tree i configured out of the driftwood pieces small rocks along the terrace too to stop gravel spilling over the white sand

now my favorite part the aquascaping side of it :-) flourite mixed with 3-5mm red river rock + playsand driftwood from agnes waters (town of 1770) kick down and leveled tank in place. i had to move out of home becouse my mum and dads place is on stilts and cant support 1.5 ton of the bearings the things you do for your fish :lol:

3d backgrounds silicon on and go bars holding background in place eheim installation bars and custom out let i made drilling inlet holes old school dupla combi electra II i picked up on ebay illuminate ( 300w's hqi ) + 48w powercompact in the middle

cabinet together tank on with slimline top trim sanding satin mdf undercoat sanding undercoat spraying black top coat on drying rack panels on

hey guys its aussie here and this is my personal DIY build for my 240 gallon 8x2x2 starfire tank this was a long journey and dream build i had planned for a long time, i had plenty of 2,3, and 4 footers through out the years of fish keeping and always wanted something a bit bigger like a 5 or 6 but i though stuff it i will just want something bigger again and went the whole hog with an 8x2x2 in 10mm starfire front and sides. so i ordered the tank and got thinking on idea's for the stocking list and overall scape, i had setup a 4ft previously to this and really like the whole planted tank setup becouse it looks natural,helps reduce nitrates and phosphates plus its a challange. so grab a bevvy and hope you enjoy this build log :-) 8x2x2 custom starfire front+sides low iron transparency

absolutely awesome and what a display tank you have. i wish one day i could have half of what you have accomplished i really want to go sw someday. do your clowns spawn occasionally with the community around?

canopy on and fish on the way fish in and that was 2 years ago i wonder what it looks like now? i really need to get some updates happening

another project on the go when i was living with a good mate who dives collects and found a new species of marine fish, this was a contract he got for his mate who was new to the hobby any ways here a quick vid of the final product in my dads shed, hope you enjoy hood being built stained and top coated led's 4x on custom alloy rack installed at the owners premises over flow weir sump filled up with macro and micro led on (this sump was way to small by the way for an 8x2)

uno tres kick cab on kick front side shame i didnt take more pics of the final assembly and delivery but will be back soon to finish his hood all good and keep green from Aussie

take 2 on a 5x2 display cabinet that a client wanted for his leopard tree pleco breeding colony sorry for the lack of photos and still waiting to go around and take the final pics of the completed setup. cutting list ripped up ready for edging paint it black' stones cover

wow bob you are the man when it comes for a personal exotic fish collection and vivid photographer you are welcome to come take pics of my display tank any day mate, i just wish you where closer :-( what camera body do you use?

custom chem rack for seachem 500ml bottles other viewski thats all folks and hope you enjoyed the pics and process of this diy build :-)

doors doors,gables and bottom trim fitted off front view open sesame 4x2x2 tank sump in tank,hood a 300w's of ducted hqi halides on

kick panel made and contacting s-s laminate on base cabinet ready for kick to be planted on looking killer and ready for doors and end gables 8)

bottom and end on first top on next followed by other end next the back on stainless steel laminate for the kick panel and shadowlines bottom cover trim

tools of the trade av56 glue and ready to assemble nail it counter sink and pilot drill screw it

cleaning up the edging hmr white (high moister resistance) for the internal cabinet cut out edging out drilled hinge plates

hey guys and girls its aussie here and i have made a few cabinets over the year but only in black so this time i thought go a natural wood grain laminate for the colour i choose macassar ebony since having a spare couple of packing sheets we got for free :-) very happy the way it came out but never got to set the beast up i was going to sump it and run a reef but power-money-time run out and planted tanks got the best of me full sheet view close up start ripping all ripped out all edged up

you need a very big tank (min 10,000 ltrs) and make sure its a race track (round corners) for stocking a shark and thats a black/white tip that grow up to 4-5 ft your smaller sharks like carpet,bamboo or epelites are much more smaller but still need a 300g plus tank min plenty of research,money and permits can make this dream happen, good luck bro if your looking at fw tropical the black shark can get some size and look great with other big fish but becarefull they have been known to have a temper on them

nice work there :thup: , i see you have added a sponge to silence the outflow, these tanks can get real noisey hey with the standard filter i got rid of my powerhead and just used a eheim 2228 and hooked it up to the wetdry spraybar that way i had the canister feeding the wet/dry and worked a treat is this a new setup looks great

thanks guys @ alan i have used western australian jarrah burl and rock maple for the main contrasting colours solomon queen ebony, nz paua shell and rock maple for the inlayed banding and queensland hairy oak for the border, its never to late to get those tools into action mate, what type of reptiles do you keep?

lol, now just paint it black and some white poker dots and that's a cheep motoro

fishless cycle just add any rotting decaying matter eg.. shrimp heads,fish food even urine can set the cycle going the only problem with this method is getting high phosphates and more prone to algae issues I would recommend a beneficial bacteria booster like stability or sera nitravec