Ybe and Jagers 75 gallon masterpiece.
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:35 pm
Well for those of you who know Ybe and myself, we like to cook up ideas on what we can do with stuff, first those crazy LOA lights, and now a full tank canopy stand and lighting bracket system.
well we started out with a aga 75 gallon mega flow tank and a garage turned woodshop that is attached to ybes house in northern VA.
I tooled up there on thursday night and we started planning the stand and canopy out.
friday we bought solid pine boards and extra parts like hinges and stain/sealer.
i wish we had photos of the tank stand going together, but we were limited on time, so we started friday afternoon and had to finish by saturday afternoon.
here are a mid level shot and a last shot of the tank test fitted at his house. and the first photo of what Ybe looks like
this one is right before i left with the canopy done as well
once it got home, much more sanding was done using 150 then 220 grit, then instead of staining i went with a hand rubbed polyurethane finish that while it took longer, it kept that natural color of the wood, and looks better than anything i would have stained.
some canopy shots after sealing
once that was complete it was time to move it all down to my room, drain a 55 gallon system and move it all over without killing anything off.
this is the corey, hes theguy who helped move my 55 out and set the 75 up yesterday. the 55 gallon stand is in view on the left bottom
so we moved all this
into the 75 system slowly getting this at first
then we moved the sump over and disturbed the dsb, which got nasty, (no pics worth showing brown water) but it moved to a 20l tank
tank was filled and started to settle the fish were already in and this is what we had
grabbed a couple of up close photos to show you how cloudy and dusty it was
now left it overnight, then aquascaped it, then left it a few hours to clear and then threw the canopy on, this is what we get
and cause i promised Ybe i wouldnt post his pic unless i posted mine, here you go
hehe sorry bout the quality, forgot to have Ybe snap one of me when we were working.
well we started out with a aga 75 gallon mega flow tank and a garage turned woodshop that is attached to ybes house in northern VA.
I tooled up there on thursday night and we started planning the stand and canopy out.
friday we bought solid pine boards and extra parts like hinges and stain/sealer.
i wish we had photos of the tank stand going together, but we were limited on time, so we started friday afternoon and had to finish by saturday afternoon.
here are a mid level shot and a last shot of the tank test fitted at his house. and the first photo of what Ybe looks like
this one is right before i left with the canopy done as well
once it got home, much more sanding was done using 150 then 220 grit, then instead of staining i went with a hand rubbed polyurethane finish that while it took longer, it kept that natural color of the wood, and looks better than anything i would have stained.
some canopy shots after sealing
once that was complete it was time to move it all down to my room, drain a 55 gallon system and move it all over without killing anything off.
this is the corey, hes theguy who helped move my 55 out and set the 75 up yesterday. the 55 gallon stand is in view on the left bottom
so we moved all this
into the 75 system slowly getting this at first
then we moved the sump over and disturbed the dsb, which got nasty, (no pics worth showing brown water) but it moved to a 20l tank
tank was filled and started to settle the fish were already in and this is what we had
grabbed a couple of up close photos to show you how cloudy and dusty it was
now left it overnight, then aquascaped it, then left it a few hours to clear and then threw the canopy on, this is what we get
and cause i promised Ybe i wouldnt post his pic unless i posted mine, here you go
hehe sorry bout the quality, forgot to have Ybe snap one of me when we were working.
