EMUreef's 90g build!!!!!!

[EMUreef]

bit of an update, did some light hanging and finished my durso up.

I felt like the raw aluminum reflector was a bit, well gaudy. so i decided to paint it black, made a little wood plate thing to hang the reflector from, and painted that black. here the pics. its looking pretty good, oh and got the front piece of trim stained and sealed.





the duct tape was just temp, before i got everything in place. lol.









and my durso. there's going to be a write up in the DIY thread here shortly.

[Sir Patrick]

Looks good man!! Great idea on the lighting!

[mhowe9]

Looks good, like the lights

[EMUreef]

alright well here is a small update.

As some of you know i've had 3 fish jump in the past week n half. Since i wanna do this tank right i figure i would fallow Jim's write up of making some cheap covers for the tank.




I think it turned out nicely! and will def stop fish from jumping out.

I picked up some dry rock from Mike on here, and thought i'd get some sort of aquascape plan going.

I had always thought that using egg crate as a good thinkg to put the rock on was the way to go but talking to Jim im not to sure... so the egg crate might go, i can say though it make stacking rock easy.

Im going for a minimalist look.

Here is the first layout i came up with... didn't like it to much but here it is...




That seemed a little well not too exciting. I looked through the minimalist aquascaping thread on RC and got some ideas so i figure im going to do an island on one side and came up with this...

I still have more rock to add from my other tanks when its ready for the change over. I like this look so far.

[Sir Patrick]

Very cool!!

What are the dimensions on that 90??? Doesnt look very wide in the pics??

[EMUreef]

Very cool!!

What are the dimensions on that 90??? Doesnt look very wide in the pics??

its not very wide.

dims are 48x18x24 tall.

[EMUreef]

anyone else got some comments on my half aquascape so far. it looks much better in person and i really like the island idea.

[Mike]

If you want to make the rock go further and keep water flowing around it you can drill and use the nylon rod method. You dont have to worry as much about rock slides that way.

[EMUreef]

alright well here is an update with no pics.. cause not to much has changed. Plus i didn't bring my camera home with me.

-All plumbing was finished and got all my hardware i needed to start the tank.
Flow - Koralia evolution 1400's x2
heaters - two 250's stealth heaters
return - quiet one 4000

-Tank is filled and system running.
Had posted a thread on problems with my durso but figured it out, if you ever have an issue with ur Durso look up my name i started a thread and found the solution.

Tested everything, no leaks from the plumbing no nothing.
Tested a poweroutage and no overflowing or even coming close.

So tank is cycling. Skimmer was running and already pulled a little bit of stuff out. things a beast and i love it. A couple of weeks ill make the switch over and add my other two tanks to the 90g. Than ill have pics to put up.

[EMUreef]

Looks good EMU. A bit to minimalist on the rock for me (personally I would do 2 islands), but once the other tanks are joined in I am sure it will look a little fuller... but hey if you like it thats what really matters (not that I hate it lol)

I will be doing to islands, just the other rock are in my tanks that are currently set up.

Great minds think alike