Jason's Mr Aqua 25g cube

[jasonp87]

Here is the start of my new build. The tank will be a Mr Aqua 25 gallon 18" cube tank. Mike (Ratkiller) drilled this one for me same as the last and it turned out great again.

Same as last time I will be building the overflow, sump and stand myself. It will be really nice to have more than twice as much display as my previous tank.

Taking this build pretty slow for now since I am saving up for the LEDs that will light it. I plan to go with an AI nano fixture. For skimmer I am thinking a CAD lights pipeless skimmer. Not sure on return pump just yet.

I plan to move everything from my current tank to this one and add a little more rock. Livestock will start with my semi Picasso perc and twin spot goby along with some mixed zoas and palys. I plan to add LPS like acans, torch, frogspawn and hammers. I would eventually like to add some simple but colorful SPS but not in a hurry there.

[nanoreef1]

Another Mr aqua yeaahhh lets start a Mr aqua club.lol Great little tank can't wait to see this bad boy up and going! Will be tagging along

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[jasonp87]

Thanks.

Picked up my bulkheads today at AW as well as a sheet of black acrylic for the overflow from ridout. They had a ton of stuff that was perfect in the scrap bin. Only cost me $2. If anyone is interested stop by there and grab it before it's gone.

[jasonp87]

Started work today on my acrylic bending table I will use to make my overflow, and any other project in the future.

Started with a piece of MDF from home depot:


next i cut a 2x4 to use as support underneath and attached the MDF and channel for the heating element. I notched the 2x4 so that the channel would sit down into it:


another shot of heating element channel:


Up next will be installing the side that folds up with a couple hinges. Then off to the thrift store to find a cheap hair dryer for the coil inside.

[nanoreef1]

That's interesting I should start doing stuff my self.lol I'm not very good of being a handy man.Maybe one day I'll try.

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[jasonp87]

Well if it works and you need something bent give me a shout. I may build my own sump too depending on how the overflow box goes.

That's interesting I should start doing stuff my self.lol I'm not very good of being a handy man.Maybe one day I'll try.

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[nanoreef1]

Well if it works and you need something bent give me a shout. I may build my own sump too depending on how the overflow box goes.

K cool will do

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[jasonp87]

Success! I have the bender working and my overflow is bent to the desired shape! Getting the wire heated ended up being much more difficult than I thought. I ended up using a pc power supply. The 12V line carries 15 amps which is what ended up making the difference. once I figured out that my power supply was shorting because of the aluminum channel the wire sits in everything went much better.

Bending table:


Overflow:


Now I can cut the teeth and get it siliconed in place in the tank! I also bent some acrylic clips for holding the lid since the tank is rimless.

[jasonp87]

Overflow installed:

[nanoreef1]

Looks great!

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[jasonp87]

Tore down the 10 gallon this weekend and set up my new temp/Qt system. Top area is for corals, and the bottom area where I currently have my live rock will be for fish. I haven't bought a tank for that area yet since I don't currently have any fish anyways. I will keep this running after setting up the new tank to work as my QT system. After losing all my fish to disease I'm not messing around. Everything, including fish and corals will be QTed in here for at least a month before adding to the display.

[Esco reef]

Any updates on your aqua cube brutha ?

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[jasonp87]

Any updates on your aqua cube brutha ?
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Sorry, No updates yet. I took down the 10 gallon I was running and now just have the frag/qt system running to keep what I still have alive. I may add the fish qt tank to the setup soon since I'll probably want to start looking at QTing fish for when the tank is ready. My rock and everything has been fallow 26 days now after whatever killed all my fish. I probably wont have the new tank up and running until after the holidays since time is short and I still need to build a new stand and get new better lights.

[jasonp87]

Well I did some work on my stand this week so all I have to do is skin it and stain it. Thanks Chronzze for the Wood for the top. I should also have enough for the door on the front. I also got my first fish for the tank. It's a neon dottyback. I may hold him back in QT for a little while and add some other fish into the tank first to avoid some aggression issues though. Here are pics.

Yes, I managed to find a Denver Broncos colored fish!! I have been looking for one for a while now and finally picked him up Saturday night. Miles cheered on the Broncos as they came out victorious over the Chargers the next day! Hopefully he gets to cheer them to victory in the Super Bowl.

[SteveParkinson]

Cool tank build, cubes are cool. Definitely got to get a cube when I get another tank.