the "other" fish tank project....

[bell]

i've been working off and on on my river tank (see building a bigger better fish tank........ ) but needed more room for my oscars sooner then later.
so i picked up a nice 75 gallon tank locally cheap to sit next to my other 75 gallon.
the old 75gal stand was too low, meaning you'de have to duck down to see in, so i made the new stand eye level.....sure i need to stand on somthing to even think about reaching in the tank, but oh well
the filtration system i built from scratch using a nice sealable 55 gallon plastic barrel and pvc. i also made overflows/prefilters from pvc (my tanks aren't drilled), premade overflows are $50 each on fleabay, i made them for $30 each plus an additional $30 in plumbing to make either work.
the overflows drain into the sump barrel which filters through 5 stacked 5gal buckets which hold filter substrate, submersible pumps send water back to the tanks.

the stand, rear overflow chambers, plumbing.


the in-tank prefilter, connects to the rear overflow box via U-tube


both tanks up and running, the stand will be boxed in from floor to ceiling, this will hide my lighting, the white bulbs are daylight, the single blue bulb is moonlight....all lighting controled by timers.


the sump


a "still adjusting" tiger oscar

[svandamme]

if you really wanna impress people, you gonna need friggin sharks, with friggin laserbeams attached to their friggin heads

[id10t]

You need to post this stuff in the DIY portion of monsterfishkeepers.com

[Jims5543]

Why dont you just fill the basement up with water?

Good job setting that tank up, it looks like its gonne be really nice. I look foward to seeing the finished pics.

[bell]

Originally posted by id10t
You need to post this stuff in the DIY portion of monsterfishkeepers.com

i post on www.cichlid-forum.com in the diy forum, there's guys there who are as inteligent with fish stuff like grady and warren are about p-cars