135 gal Cube Build Thread - WooHoo!

[markalot]

Agreed, but I don't have the dimmer. ATI 6 bulb with BML fixtures front and back. What's your favorite bulb combination?

 

[Trevor40]

Wow, golfnut, your tank has had amazing growth!! This tank is awesome to see in person! The variety of corals is very impressive.

 

[golfnut1232]

Agreed, but I don't have the dimmer. ATI 6 bulb with BML fixtures front and back. What's your favorite bulb combination?

This is my bulb combination right now. Seems to work well but I may make an adjustment or two when I replace the bulbs here in a month or so.

blue plus
purple plus
blue plus
actinic
aqua blue special
blue plus
purple plus
blue plus

 

[golfnut1232]

Wow, golfnut, your tank has had amazing growth!! This tank is awesome to see in person! The variety of corals is very impressive.

Thanks Trevor. Coming from the guy that got me hell bent on getting a cube style tank, that means a lot. :yo:

 

[Oscaror]

I just saw your tank and DEMAND AN UPDATE
this is too good to be forgotten.

 

[golfnut1232]

I will work on getting an update with some pics done. Thanks for the push! I needed it.

 

[Trevor40]

Yeah, slacker!

 

[Josh Bayne]

OMG my new build is exact same footprint. Do yu have a drawing of the stand you build u could message me?

 

[zoo]

wow nice woodwork

 

[golfnut1232]

I will see if I can find any notes that I made before I built the stand.

Thanks for the nice comments.

 

[blesk]

I wona ask who build your tank is perfect .

 

[golfnut1232]

I wona ask who build your tank is perfect .

Thank you! The tank itself is made by Leemar. Overall, I'm happy with the construction. The stand and sump was done by myself with the help of a buddy.

 

[MRRBW]

Beautiful build! Is it still up and running? Any thoughts/ regrets/ would do things differently with this tank?

 

[golfnut1232]

Beautiful build! Is it still up and running? Any thoughts/ regrets/ would do things differently with this tank?

Yes, tank is up and running still! Sorry, I have been terrible at keeping up with updates! Haha.

No regrets really but there is one thing I'd do differently and that's make my sump bigger. With the frag compartment as part of the sump (which I don't use) it makes things pretty tight.

That's about it. Now I want to got bigger!

Thoughts: it has been difficult getting flow dialed in on a cube tank. I use vortechs and if I were to put them where I really want them, they'd be blasting acros directly which is usually not going to work out well.

Here's a few recent pictures:

 

[golfnut1232]

Left side

 

[golfnut1232]

Front

 

[golfnut1232]

Right side.

Tiles are for trying to kill a Jedi mind trick that has taken over too much space and I can't remove the rocks it has encrusted on. It's not working too well. Lol