Finally finished my bookshelf!!!

[American Flyer]

I finally finished my bookshelf tank. The tank is a custom made glasscages.com tank with a starfire front panel. It is drilled with two 1.5" holes with schedule 80 bulkheads. The system is very simple: 50 gallon tank, 3 hydor koralia 4s (2 on timers), 1 small generic powerhead, ASM G2 skimmer, submersible return pump, PC lighting (3 x 97 watt and 1 actinic). Media: Lots of LR in display and in sump, chaeto in sump, crushed coral substrate for looks only. I opted out of deep sandbed as I run lightly stocked and perform weekly water changes. Livestock: Scopas tang, ocellaris, six-line wrasse, cleaner shrimp, 15 assorted snails, 1 small scarlet hermit. Corals: Green star polyps, yellow polyps, red mushrooms, toadstool, colt coral, which hosts the ocellaris. I hope you all enjoy the pictures. This is like the tank of the month for me and I used all of the ideas and advice from all of the experience gained from reading and receiving advice from this forum. I am having a micro bubble problem so if anyone has any advice based on what you see in the pictures please fire away!


I am going to attach additional pictures in a few posts. Please excuse the quality of the pictures as I shot them with a little pocket camera.

 

[American Flyer]

More photos of the bookshelf and filtration

Pictures of the shelf and the plumbing. Go easy on the criticism, I am an accountant.

 

[American Flyer]

Livestock

A few more

 

[coralcor]

i like that! better than any tv that could have gone there.

 

[American Flyer]

Just in case you haven't seen a six-line wrasse or the very rare and exotic yellow polyp coral...

 

[American Flyer]

The kids are very upset that a TV was not put in there! It is actually my home office so I don't feel guilty. Besides, my 6 year old daughter actually helped with the plumbing!

 

[jayinh]

very well done, has a classey look to it.

 

[isakshu]

One of the better in-wall set-ups I've seen. Nice framing - looks professional.

 

[Gina McReeferson]

That looks beautiful, very nice indeed!

 

[Blueflu1]

looks great. I like it. Good job

 

[American Flyer]

Thanks for the kind words!

 

[bigdog]

looks really nice are u going 2 make a fish room on the other side

 

[American Flyer]

The enitire unfinished portion of the basement is the fish room. I like the nice open space as I don't have any humidity or temperature issues. It will also help to keep everything cool in the summer.