Parkway01 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 (edited) Hey all. About to start building a small barrack tank(?), bunker(?) thing. Just a cheap and nasty tank i picked up years ago for 15 buck brand new, but its square and holds water so all good. Years ago i had it set up as 3-bay barracks with a weir at the back with an internat filter plumbed(badly) to each bay, wasnt pretty and was a sketchy design so i gutted it. So its back to an empty 2x1x1ft tank. The new plan will have it divided into 3 barracks, a bit over 11L each with the hardware tucked away behind the middle barrack and between the 2 end ones. So each barrack will have holes drilled through the face that is next to the outer sponge, so the water goes through the outer sponge then onto the wool. For biological goodness the last step is the water going under that partition and through the eheim substrat stuff. Then that pump and heater area obviously houses the pump and heater. The pump will be plumbed neatly into each barrack and that will be the magical cycle. That rear reseviour will be blacked with pvc sticker vinyl (a mate makes stickers so that shall be nice and cheap). Also ill make up 2 black removable cards for flaring inbetween barracks. I'm building with acrylic for hassle free drilling, should look pretty neat in the end. Got the package today that has the pump and all filter related media, also made a trip to masters to buy all the hardware. So ill try to get the prep work done tomorrow, see what happens. Gotta make a proper lid setup too, at the moment it's a solid piece of glass that isnt even square :-p Ill try and keep this thread pretty thorough Edited May 15, 2014 by Parkway01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkway01 Posted May 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 So here is a start pic: Haven't got much done, only cleaned it up, cut and siliconed glass lid supports and cut and test fitted the 3 main dividers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_97 Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Wow. I`ve never seen this type of setup, looks really good!! Good luck in finishing it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkway01 Posted May 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Cheers Dan. 3 main dividers are in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Very interesting design. Should work well. I love how all the filtration is hidden. Will look great when it's all scaped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayM Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkway01 Posted June 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 So long time between updates, my bad. So the tank is 100% done, with the new residents in. I'll post pics in a couple days, just using some purigen to remove some tannins, the joys of tank water in the Bush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Look forward to seeing the end result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkway01 Posted July 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 So here it is : '' target='_blank'>> '' target='_blank'>> '' target='_blank'>> '' target='_blank'>> Only other thing I want to do is black out the back of the end bays. After building it, I've decided next time I'll do it differently again. I have an idea that will be more economical. Not that there's anything wrong with this, the filtration is just overkill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenton Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Nice! Nothing wrong with filter over kill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockerpeller Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 I might have a go at making one of these. It's an awesome idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Looks great! Love that copper pk. Where did you get him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkway01 Posted July 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 That's true Brenton. I got him in-store at someone's bettarazzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddzvk Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 of course and it has the gorgeous copper boy as a resident. beautiful fish. i really like this tank idea as well. looks nice and clean and spacey and practical! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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