I hope to upgrade my 36 gallon to a 100gallon in the late summer/early fall. Here is the current 36 Acrylic Bow-front.
In this location, a 4 ft tank will go from the white trim to the white trim.
I’ve all but settled on the SCA aquariums 100 gal model.
I like the eurobrace, herbie pre-drilled overflow and decent price. I was hoping to get a 120 gal tank but space constraints means that extra 4” of depth won’t work.
The wheels are officially in motion with the order of a custom stand from a local furniture store.
Keeping with the distressed look of the previous stand, the new stand will pretty much look like this but without drawers (no room). They are made in India so it’ll take at least 4 months to arrive, which is fine since I won’t have time for it until then anyway.
In the meantime, however, I’ll be slowly accumulating equipment, supplies. So far, I’ve got:
I’ll be doing a bunch of DIY projects to prepare:
Completed DIYs:
In this location, a 4 ft tank will go from the white trim to the white trim.
I’ve all but settled on the SCA aquariums 100 gal model.
I like the eurobrace, herbie pre-drilled overflow and decent price. I was hoping to get a 120 gal tank but space constraints means that extra 4” of depth won’t work.
The wheels are officially in motion with the order of a custom stand from a local furniture store.
Keeping with the distressed look of the previous stand, the new stand will pretty much look like this but without drawers (no room). They are made in India so it’ll take at least 4 months to arrive, which is fine since I won’t have time for it until then anyway.
In the meantime, however, I’ll be slowly accumulating equipment, supplies. So far, I’ve got:
- EcoTech Vectra M1 pump
- Simplicity 240DC Skimmer
- Some dry rock
- An old 30gal long and a new 40gal breeder one will become the sump
- Maxspect Gyre 130, Hydor Koralias
- Lights: Leaning toward 2 x Maxspect Ethereals, but now eyeing the Maxspect Recurve. Other considerations are the longer Razor (my current one with the wifi upgrade works well), Ai Hydras, others?
- More Pukani dry rock
- Flow: Larger gyre, other powerheads
- Controller, if I don’t decide to DIY one
I’ll be doing a bunch of DIY projects to prepare:
Completed DIYs:
- Automatic water change
- Automated RO membrane flush and TDS creep flush. I hope to post this soon.
- Sump
- Algae Scrubber or more likely Algae Reactor possibly if I go that route
- Floating canopy if I go that route
- Moonshot: DIY aquarium controller
- A couple other crazy ideas