Weekdaywarrior's 110g Tank

by **weekdaywarrior** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:54 am

Hi RP friends. I finally mustered enough courage to make a thread of my tank (with friends' continuous egging :lol:

- Blackwiddow, Sea Turtle and the master himself, Jourdy).

To start, my tank's dimensions are 60" x 22" x 22". Rimless, super clear and tempered made by Mang Ramon. Over flow is slotted acrylic about 36" long with 2 x 1" drains and 2 x 3/4" returns run by Eden pump. It was originally fitted with a Rio17HF but the noise is driving me nuts therefore i replaced it.

I had a carpenter build my cabinet made out of marine plywood and with 4" x 4" vertical and horizontal supports. The front doors are sliding and the side doors are awning. All doors were wrapped horizontally with 1" x 1" wood for aesthetics and to somehow blend with the overall theme of my house. I finished it with wood oil since that's what i normally use for woods.

For my lights, I am using a DIYed LED light with 8 x 10W royal blue, and 12 x 10W 10000k whites - if i remember it right, they are Epileds and Bridgelux. All 10W LEDs are fitted with 60 degree optics. I also added 7 x 3W LEDs since I wanted to play with the colors for the "POP" effect. An acrylic enclosure was custom made based on my design. Hanging kits were from Soler and Caloocan. :mrgreen:

My subtank is about 30 or 50 gallons (im not sure, so forgive me) with three chambers. First chamber is for an in-sump ATS lighted with DIY LED grow lights (under experimentation and observation), second chamber is only LR and third, return. As I have mentioned, the filtration is an experiment but I have the option to retrofit a skimmer in the future if I decide to.

At the moment, I only have a few LS mostly softies and LPS. I also only have a few fishes and inverts (except for snails :lol:

). They are 2 x percs, 2 x six line wrasses, 3 x antenna gobbies, 2 CS, about 3 or 4 small halloween crabs, turbo and normal nassarius and turban snails.

I plan to have a mixed reef in about 3 or 6 month's time depending on the time my tank will eventually become stable. Its currently running for 3 months only.

I have crappy pics taken by my crappy hands on my DSLR and PNS so I would let the master himslf, Jourdy, do the honors in posting the pics since he has an awesome camera and his camera taking skills is superb :lol:

Thanks for looking.

by **blackwidow** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:59 am

Sa wakas ng post din. Congrats bro. Looking forward for the nice corals u have. Love the diy led. Yan yung iniinggit mo skin nung dumalaw ka dito sa bahay. Hahahhaa. Nice set up bro.

by **Sea Turtle** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:01 pm

...SA WAKAS!!

kaso... asan na yung pics?? ang lakas mong mambitin!

by **blackwidow** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:05 pm

Bien wag ka mambitin. MJ saan na yung pics. Post it na pls. Hahaha. Dito nako tatambay sa thread ni bien surely this will be one of the best.

by **jazz0821** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:06 pm

by **thurrmac** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:10 pm

at long last... waiting for pics :mrgreen:

by **AdamWarlock** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:14 pm

Nice Bien mag papakita ka na din ng tank!

by **tosh48** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:22 pm

yun!! may thread na. buti nalang nakita ko na sa personal to kaya hindi ako nabitin sa picture

. dami ko din natutunan, at sarap kakwentuhan, salamat sir bien sa tank tour at advice. madami na ba nagbago sa tank?

by **pepperghost** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:45 pm

wow lakas nga mambitin... kung "ano" ito siguro masakit na puson ko haha! bitin eh! haha!

mukhang malakas nga ilaw ah.. around 200 watts ata siya... dami ko sana questions lalo na sa acrylic mo saan mo nakuha or nabili and magkano etc etc (kahit di ko pa nakikita fixture mo hehe).. gawa din ako ng led ko eh yun na next ko basta tatapusin ko lang electrical ko muna....

by **weekdaywarrior** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:50 pm

thanks julius, mike, jazz, miko, tosh, rockster and mark.

pasensya na at nabitin kayo sa pics si jourdy kasi ang naatasang mag post pag uwi daw nya:lol: biro lang MJ. so ire-re shoot mo ba ulit? hahahahaha. pwede ko i-dim ng konti yung LED. thanks jourdy.

mark,

i could share with you the information on the shop who made my acrylic enclosure sa manila wala kasi ako iba alam na malapit sa amin e kaya sa manila pa ako nagpagawa pero so far im happy with the outcome naman.

by **Sea Turtle** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:06 pm

bien, pa-pm na rin nung sinasabi mong shop. thanks! :wink:

**still waiting for the pics... :mrgreen:

by **jemzac** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:58 pm

Welcome to RP... nyek matagal na pala si weekendwarrior sa RP

Si jourdy nga mag po-post ng pics... Ang ganda ganda ng tank ni Bien. Mawala lang algae nun tank of the month yun. At ang cabinet stand , na-inlove ako... Hayyyy ganda. Yung moonlight nya may halfmoon, quater moon, & full moon galing Europe  joke lang pero gusto ko ng ganun 

by **weekdaywarrior** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:21 pm

sobra naman jen hahaha. pero thanks for the appreciation magaling lang ako manggaya as i have explained to you and jourdy, galing yung sa design ng audio rack. mahilig din kasi ako sa audio e.

anyways, here are a few pics when the tank was put up with the lights about two months ago.

let's see kung hindi ako engot mag post ng pics :lol:

the tank after i finished installing the LED fixture

the lighting finally done and installed in the enclosure

the cable and connector used the gray utility box below the light is where i put all the drivers

how i installed the dc fans

yun lang po muna. thanks for looking.

by **thurrmac** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:28 pm

by **weekdaywarrior** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:33 pm

oops malaki yata first photo kaya di kumasya... i-resize ko then repost.

mike, hanapin ko number then i-PM ko. next street lang sya after D. Jose coming from Recto.