At long last....tank is up!

[Chris]

Very neat and full of potential. What's the depth of your tank? Is your chiller also incorporated into the cabinet? Any heat worry? Loves your Kandinski art piece too.

[newmarine]

Hi robe,

am a newbies. Always admire how you guy can make your tank so nice. Any tip? Nice ..... nice..... cool....

[robe]

Thanks everybody for the compliment. For once I need to do a proper tank as since I started in the late nineties I never had a decent looking cabinet to house my tank as well as a decent tank...... I'll ppost more of the tank detail once I get the pis downloaded.

Likewise some details on the tank design. I used autocad to design the tank and overflow system as well as the cabinet itself. For the cabinet the primary aim was accessibility to the tank at all sides if not at least 3 sides.

Cabinet hood is built with big side swing doors not upward swing which most tank hood have. I hate to knock my head on the panels as well as crouching while doing tank maintenance.......

[huanjie]

Its so cool the way the tank integrate into your living area...or the living area integrated around the tank

Beautiful !

[silverfish]

Nice tank!! very neat living room you got!

btw, you play electric guitar.. spotted the guitar to the right of your room..

[robe]

more pics of the back room.

[robe]

external overflow

[robe]

left bottom of cabinet for main pump Iwaki MX70, gas tank, chiller pump Iwaki MD30, DIY phosphate reactor and sump

[robe]

front bottom of cabinet showing the chiller pump

[Dispar_Anthias]

wah nice.. everything so neatly place

[robe]

right bottom showing skimmer return and main return pipes - all pipes are 40 mm (1.5 inch)

[roidan]

the iwakis so nicely mounted

i place my iwakis on piles of folded newspapers as cushioning

[robe]

cabinet with all doors open

[robe]

lighting pulley system - lights can be pulled up level to ballast suspended cradle when doing maintenance or major rescaping

[robe]

I thnik I saved the pics in too low a resolution...

[Dispar_Anthias]

Take pic of your maxima... let us drool

[robe]

Reef Maniac's Robe's custom Beckett skimmer - thanks to JoeP!!!

[Gouldian]

I am lost for words......

[robe]

right angle view of tank

[robe]

front view - so bare and empty.....

[piglet]

chio !!

[Dispar_Anthias]

The clams

[DeepBlue]

well planned. Wonderfully scaped tank. The old guru's standard is really not the same

[surfedelic]

Like your pulley system .....nice design....

I think your stags are getting wild ...

[six66]

nicely done..robe

one word - NEAT

a carefully planned tank

kudos