KyleGustafson22

I just got one from Rudy in the auction, I haven't used it yet but you're welcome to borrow it. Where are you at?

Good to hear! I'll send you a PM to get in touch

Wow man I hadn’t seen his thread before, building your own tank is awesome! If you wouldn’t mind me picking your brain: Where did you order the glass from and how expensive were the pieces? How did you go about getting the silicone together onto the seams before the silicone started drying and made a film on the top? Did the masking tape to hold it together for curing work well or would you use a wooden frame doing this again? I’d love to put together my own cube aquarium in the future, I’d love to take a look at this some time and chat about it. Great work! For the rock, you could look for some more natural shelf pieces so that the style rock you have in there now could be more of a base and have a smoother look on top with a reef edge look to it. Post some pictures of the sump setup too, great work!

Hey guys and gals, Does anyone know of a clownsifh breeder in the NoVA/DC area? I've been interested in a clownfish harem for the longest time, and in order to do so I'd like to get a large amount of juvenile clowns from the batch. Not ready to buy them immediately, but I'd like to start a conversation with a home breeder if there's any around here that anyone knows about. Thanks!

Looks like you have a really nice assortment of wrasses in there, they should eat the flatworms if I’m not mistaken. Great looking tank man!

Thanks! I’ll definitely take you up on the gsp offer when I get out toward Alexandria next time. And the nem had anchored himself to the Tupperware and was being stubborn so I had to let it sit in there for a couple days until he decided to move out of it haha!

Complete and installed

Man that is one gorgeous tank! Great job!

That’s possible, but with them going into a back staff access area to dump it in and stealing the shark from the front touch pool exhibit it still kinda seems intentional. Maybe he doesn’t care about the animals he can’t own?

Not saying you should pick it up or do this at all, but a really cool idea for the frag tank and stand that Eric has up for free would be to just plumb it into a setup and fill it with chaeto, dragons breath etc, and put a nice light over it. Now that would be alot of nutrient export. Ya know, overkill for the 22g rimless in your living room haha.

Thats great point, maybe a turf scrubber is better at keeping nitrates low than chaeto is? Thats what the king of diy guy says the turf scrubber is for in the video I was talking about above. I definitely don't think its a necessity but if you have trouble keeping nitrates low in a smaller sump you might have better luck using a scrubber alongside chaeto

In my understanding, a turf scrubber is a place for fast growing algae to grow that is removable, so that it grows in the sump instead of the display when you have algae that outcompetes the chaeto. Then you can scrape it off and use it as a nutrient export.

The bleaching the aquarium part is insane, they did it as a distraction to get the shark out. And ya know, I would imagine that all of his fish would need to be rescued while they go to jail for awhile...

Man all the algae scrubbers I've seen online are super expensive. If funding isnt a factor then you could go with one of the setups from turbosaquatics.com, I've heard and seen pictures of success stories from them. Still not super pretty looking but it goes in the sump, so maybe not the biggest deal. At something like 400$ to start with, theyre really expensive for an algae scrubber but this one at least is quite effective. As an alternative, the king of DIY guy on youtube has a decent looking algae scrubber the he makes on video, and I'd imagine that if you use a tuna flora light from kessil it'll grow algae just the same as one of the expensive kits I'm probably going to put one together to put in the new sump as well

Added in baffles tonight and I’ll have two more to put in tomorrow night before I water test it. I cut holes in the tops of the two little crates where I’ll stuff filter socks into and have a place to plop media bags as the water flows out the holes and over that first baffle. Full tank shot, the sump will fill up about 3/4 of the black stand. Don’t mind the Tupperware inside, letting a new carpet anemone crawl out. Bonus carpet nem

Got the glass baffles and I put one in for tonight, I’ll test it tomorrow to make sure I’m doing this correctly. This is the current setup under the tank for the moment Rough, I know. The other baffles will go in tomorrow and I’m using those two small black crates together to create a diy filter sock holder.

I’ll take my stolen sharks, and go start my own aquarium club!

Hey Wamas, Today I'm picking up the glass baffles for a new sump going underneath the 125 and I thought I'd post the build as it goes together and see if anyone has suggestions along the way. I picked up a Deep Blue 33 gallon long tank from Quantum Reefs a couple weeks ago to replace the 20g long that I have under it right now. This is the tank new, the other picture is the design for it all. I'll also be updating the plumbing and cord management to a degree so if anyone has suggestions in those areas as it comes together then I'm all ears. Thanks! Kyle edit: I have no idea why the one picture is upside down. sorry lol

This article has a bit more information and pictures of the shark thieves https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mbvd/stolen-shark-aquarium-baby-stroller

This is a really ridiculous story, and I thought you all might enjoy it. (CNN)What began with a quick grab-and-go theft Saturday at the San Antonio Aquarium -- the suspect leaving a trail of water drops as he hurried away with his dripping prize of a small but very much alive shark -- ended Monday with the safe return of "Miss Helen" to her tank at the aquarium. The 16-inch female horn shark was taken during a heist that aquarium officials said was no spur-of-the-moment, let's-steal-a-shark thing. "The suspects staked out the pool for more than an hour" to wait for the right moment, the aquarium said in a statement. The search for the young female shark, known to aquarium staff as Miss Helen, led police Monday to the home of a man who maintains an extensive collection of marine life, according to the police chief of the San Antonio suburb where the aquarium is located. "When we got into the garage and into the house it looked like almost a mock up of (the San Antonio Aquarium)," said Leon Valley Police Chief Joseph Salvaggio. "He knew very much what he was doing and kept that animal alive." The great shark heist Surveillance video, which the aquarium posted on its Facebook page, caught the heist as it happened. Two men and a woman with a infant wandered through the facility with a baby stroller in tow. The trio is seen on the video hanging around the tank where visitors can feed the fish and reach in the water and pet various sea life. "Miss Helen," a 16-inch horn shark, as she is returned to the San Antonio Aquarium following a theft. One of the men quickly bends over and pulls something from the tank, using a net that aquarium officials said he'd brought with him. The man then disappears out of camera range with his male companion following him as the woman walks around with the baby. "After grabbing the shark they entered into one of our filter rooms where they poured (a) bucket of bleach solution that employees used for the disinfection of tools into our cold water exhibit filtration system, causing harm to other wildlife," the aquarium statement said. The men put the shark in the bucket and stashed it on the stroller to make their getaway. Fast-acting staff, realizing what had happened, were able to prevent the bleach from doing more damage. And from there, the shark hunt was on. "When we first got the call, we thought it was kind of a hoax, being that it was Shark Week last week," Police Chief Salvaggio, referring to the Discovery Channel's week of shark-related programming, told CNN affiliate KSAT. Bringing Miss Helen home On Monday night, police successfully rescued the shark and returned her to the aquarium. Staff applauded and cheered as Miss Helen made her homecoming. Police don't believe the shark was taken to sell but to be added to the suspect's collection. "It was something he wanted, he had one of these in the past," said Salvaggio. "He had one that passed away." Staff members bring the stolen shark back to the San Antonio aqarium. One man has been charged with theft and charges for two other individuals are pending, according to Salvaggio. Miss Helen is now being held in quarantine as staff tests the water she was held in and acclimates her back into the aquarium environment. "I'm so so happy that we got her back and she appears very healthy," Jamie Shank with the San Antonio Aquarium told KSAT as the shark arrived. "I can't believe what she's been through, she's a little fighter. She's a survivor." https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/us/shark-stolen-san-antonio-aquarium-trnd/index.html These people are insane!

Wow thats nuts!

Man that blue-grey on the brick looks great, gives the room a submerged kinda feel. Are you going to put baffles in the two sump containers at all?

Perhaps it was condensation that collected on some gunk and it mixed into the oily substance that youre talking about? I'm not sure, Ive never heard of this though with any brand of tank. Do you have a picture by chance?

I got a Nyos Quantum skimmer recently for my 125 and i really like it, pulls a massive amount of crud out of the tank

This looks awesome, I’m super excited to see it finally filled with water soon! Thanks for posting pictures!