Building my new 400 litre + - tank and stand

How lucky can one person get???

 

@azurekoi i think i have seen you post something like this, a website that can tallme my safety rating and the pices i must cut or worked out for me, im lazy like that, do u mind sharing it with me again?? atleast i hope it was you that posted it

 

@wsteene hahaha any1 can surf as long as you practice!! its one of the beauties of living at the coast and jbay 20min away

 

@wsteene only saw ur post now haha so you think 55cm ?? :O then my tank will be seriously out of proportion!! the reason its so funny is cause its goin into a certain play in my room and can only get a max length of 87 odd cm

 

Construct a dummy tank with wood or something to get an idea before hand, just an idea:idea:

 

@wsteene actually a good idea haha gonna do that right now

 

I'm a scuba diver myself and being so far from the coast is terrible, did dive Bell's boy at PE in 2009, just had bad vis - about 700mm - 1m

 

k wow, why i just didnt do that earlier :O k so think 65 cm waaay to high!! :O thinkin 58cm if i go lower than it does look funny haha, think 68 is a good height, lighting oh goodness didnt even know that high tanks would have that trouble, do u think that it will be a major issue even on 58 cm?

 

meant 58cm in that last post my bad!! @wsteene yea they usually cancel the dive when its like that, when diving in yhe bay I.e phillips reef, bell bouy and if memory serves white sands, you dont usually get better than 5m EVER haha, usually 3-5, but had riy banks at like 15-20m vis and that was just beautiful!!!

 

http://www.theaquatools.com/building-your-aquarium @wrenchy, here is the link that you were looking for. Can opt for 58 cm then you will have top play around with lights but think T5's will be the solution

 

@wrenchy.... Here you go Dude... http://www.theaquatools.com/building-your-aquarium

 

Thanks @azurekoi and @wsteene !! will see, yea i dont know much about lights, wats the diff between t8 and t5??

 

T5 is a thinner tube than a T8...

 

T5 is brighter and if not mistaken can get higher wattage ratings and due to their size you can fit more T5's than T8's in your canopy

 

Oook!! see well ill cross that bridge when get there :O im ordering the glass now :O quite nervous my sizes are wrong!! anyway here goes nothing!! final size 862mm x 608mm x 580mm (LxWxH)

 

All of the best mate

 

Update!!
Today wasnt as productive as i had hoped ran into a bit of trouble with my machine and had to get my wood cut at builders warehouse , but i planed with my machine

anyways put some cross beams in and the front panel!!

as seen below

 

oh ya and glass ordered arrives in two weeks :O

 

looking good wrenchy!!!!

Are you going to do cabinet doors for the bottom part?

 

Thanks @Pauline

i am thinking that, too hide watever filtration im gonna have going. cant wait for it to all come together