greggydm's 50 gal zero edge design Sps-Lps tank

by **watermark** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:08 pm

Idol tank material Ser!

by **doctorhannibal** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:32 pm

**drool**

+10 ganda ng tank mo bro! One of the best DIY setup na nakita ko, sana minsan pa-tank tour.

Keep on updating.

by **billy_b0i** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:55 pm

tagumpay!

by **marlon** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:42 pm

Excellent planning and design!!!

by **nanokiper** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:09 am

Great Tank! Nice aquascape and coral selection.

by **greggydm** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:08 pm

Mabisyo wrote:

Wow!

Thanks bro! I also like your 60gal cube.

I wish i can get a purple tang too but i already have a small blue tang in QT and i think 2 tangs in a 50gal tank is too much. :cry:

kalipietre wrote:

(jaw drop)

I guess i was just a bit lucky that my first attempt at a zero-edge somehow worked out Ok. I was really concerned about noise from the overflow being a problem and it was really noisy at first. Lucky enough with a little experimentation i found a remedy that reduced the noise by more than half.

GrAhF11 wrote:

haha its nice to see mr. spot once again. very very nice tank mr. greg! masarap yan ilagay sa living room ah. pwede ba ako magpagawa nyan sa future? hahaha

Thanks to you Davy!Good thing you did'nt have your tank then or else you would not have given it to me.Thanks again and hope your Ats does well!

Ps: I can assist you if ever you want a zero-edge tank. I have a lot of tips that i can give you!

my ever multiplying xenia colony

my wife's fave shrooms

Thanh you guys!!

by **erniecloud** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:16 pm

nice green,blue,red shrooms sir!! :shock:

by **greggydm** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:04 am

iricchua posted:

Greg, super tank!

Thanks Iric, and it was great meeting you!

obet_carlos posted:

very nice tank!

Well a compliment from you is a great one indeed! :wink:

Thanks a lot and wish me luck for we sure need it in this hobby of ours!

sid posted:

Ambangis nga ng setup mo kabayan!

Hanlufet.

Maraming salamat kabayan!

And coming from Mr. Unorthodox himself is truly an honor. You have one of the most challenging tanks i have ever seen and maybe someday i might be lucky enough to see it in person!
And may i quote you- 'Thank you brudah'

by **sid** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:50 pm

greggydm wrote:sid posted:
Ambangis nga ng setup mo kabayan!

Hanlufet.

Maraming salamat kabayan! And coming from Mr. Unorthodox himself is truly an honor. You have one of the most challenging tanks i have ever seen and maybe someday i might be lucky enough to see it in person!
And may i quote you- 'Thank you brudah'

It would be an honor to have you visit my place brudah.

And many thanks for the compliment.

On the side note, if ever you decided to trim your xenia bro, you might be interested in trading/swapping with some ricordea frags.

Cheers!

by **greggydm** » Fri May 29, 2009 6:05 pm

sid posted:

It would be an honor to have you visit my place brudah.

And many thanks for the compliment.

On the side note, if ever you decided to trim your xenia bro, you might be interested in trading/swapping with some ricordea frags.

Cheers!

Since i have a small tank and a smaller sump/fuge, i'll just set-up a small eggcrate in the DT to handle some frags of my xenia and if i'm successful then we have a deal! Thanks for the offer bro!

hopefully i can add your rics to my ric garden

my hairy mushroom colony which i'm planning to frag

my small polyp yellow turbinaria

my very resilient stylopora

by **obet_carlos** » Fri May 29, 2009 6:17 pm

chief pa reserve ako nung hairy mushroom..

btw, may overflow designs po ba kayo na masusugest para sa nano cube? purely sps kaya d pwede yung zero edge..

by **greggydm** » Fri May 29, 2009 9:58 pm

obet: i think i can spare you a couple of those hairy things!

hehehe. I'll let you know if they're ready.

As to overflow designs for your nano cube, maybe you can check this out:
http://www.zeroedgeaquarium.com/FAQ.htm
You can make your backwall as your overflow and incorporate a small box under the base of the tank that contains a sponge.This will minimize a lot of noise.However, cutting a square or rectangular hole in the base would be something i can't decipher. Maybe mang Ramon can do it. Also you have to design the cabinet to accomodate the box.

Since you want to drill the base of the tank to hide the return pipe, either you still have to raise the output high enough or put a check valve( if you can find a good and reliable one that is saltwater safe).
http://www.zeroedgeaquarium.com/Plumbingdiagram.jpg.jpg

As for my zero-edge drain, i simply drilled four holes(two on each side) in the canal(overflow) and simply glued some airline hoses to the lip of the canal and the other end is just about an inch into the drain hole and it reduced the sound a great deal.

I would not recommend this for a bedroom tank but for a living room tank, i would say that the sound it produces is more soothing, like a waterfall effect and very relaxing.

Good luck with your new quest :!:

by **jackryan** » Sat May 30, 2009 4:09 am

bro, is there a way for you to share pics of what's inside the cabinet --- how the sump tank is set-up and also the piping details?

Thanks,
-JackRyan

by **sid** » Sat May 30, 2009 10:44 am

greggydm wrote:sid posted:
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On the side note, if ever you decided to trim your xenia bro, you might be interested in trading/swapping with some ricordea frags.

Since i have a small tank and a smaller sump/fuge, i'll just set-up a small eggcrate in the DT to handle some frags of my xenia and if i'm successful then we have a deal! Thanks for the offer bro!

You're welcome brudah!

Here's some additional info. regarding fragging xenia that you might find it useful. http://www.garf.org/MPegs/XeniaPropagation.shtml

A video clip... http://www.garf.org/MPegs/XeniaPropagation.mpg

I think we will be trading a lot of different frags in the future.

Again, you really have a jaw-dropping setup there bro, and it's DIY. Awesome... everything is just awesome.

Cheers!

by **greggydm** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:30 am

watermark said:

Idol tank material Ser!

Thank you very much sir! I guess i was just a bit lucky not only with my first attempt at a zero-edge design tank but also with raising SPS corals!

But i guess that reading and researching a lot here at RP and other forums like RC helped me a lot!

doctorhannibal posted:

**drool**

+10 ganda ng tank mo bro! One of the best DIY setup na nakita ko, sana minsan pa-tank tour.

Keep on updating.

The tank is only 6months old and i think that it has yet to evolve into something more natural and stable. You are most welcome to view the tank and it would be my pleasure to show it to those who would make the effort to go to my place specially to those who are interested in building a zero-edge tank.

I will keep updating this thread so that we can all learn from this setup that i would say is still in its experimental stages. Thank u bro!

billy_boi wrote:

tagumpay!

At least now we can say that a DIY zero-edge tank is possible kaya tagumpay natin lahat ito! :lol:

I just hope that this will encourage other RP members to try this design!

marlon posted:

Excellent planning and design!!!

This design has its own beauty but it also has its own limitations. I guess i was just daring enough to try it and invest my time and effort (and resources) without being sure that it will work out ok.

nanokiper posted:

Great Tank! Nice aquascape and coral selection.

I wish i had taken some pics of the aquascape before i placed some corals and sand. It was inspired by a minimal tank that i saw in RC but i think that pictures does not do it much justice. I will be changing my very fine sand to something coarser to minimize sand storms in the bottom of the tank and maybe remove some corals on the sand bed to have a more minimal approach! Will post more pics as i go along!

greggydm's 50 gal zero edge design Sps-Lps tank

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