Scott26's 30 Rimless Cube

Well here is a thread for my little tank that I am building to tide me over until I have the room to set up my 225 gallon.

I found a nice tank for sale from a local guy and picked up this nice 30 gallon rimless cube 24x24x12 with a centered trapizoid overflow.





It came with a steel black stand but the design on the stand was not well thought out in my opinion. So I made a new stand out of wood, it is designed to have a 4" lip all the way around it. For now it is just going to be the stand but I will skin it later and make the panels removable.

From this:



To this:





Next I am going to be building a DIY LED fixture out of Cree LEDs that is still in the planning phase though but here are four layouts I am thinking of.

 

looks fantastic, sure cant wait to see the finished product.

 

Thanks, me too.

 

Scott, you finally came back and came back STRONG!!!

I like the No.2 LED plan because:
it has more UVs (Id add a few more)
the UVs are placed in the center (youd want your SPSs in the middle, wouldnt you?)

Welcome back!

 

Haven't seen you on here in a while...hope things are going well.

Nice job on the stand. I can tell this is going to be a good build.

 

Ya the uv is a nice added color I don't know how much affect it will have for sps though.

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Things are going great, hopefully this one will be even better than the 90.

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Ive already started to see some ripen effect on the SPS very possibly because of UVs in my tank! You dont really see the LED color itself tho.

 

Got some skin down for the basic stuff and water tested, it is all perfectly level.

 

Looks great so far!