Wednesday 30 October 2013

My Nano Reef Tank

So I started Building the tank a month ago



Here it is drying. As you can see, I built the filter chamber on the left hand side
so that there wuld be no pipes en pumps in the display part.


Here im doing the leak test. Left it outside for 2 days and there were no leaks.


Ok here is the filter chamber which works like a sump. Water runs over the overflow.
Gets filtered by the spunge thing and bacteria builds up on the ceramic ring. Stage two is the heater and protein skimmer, and stage three is the return pump pumping the water back into the display.


Here I added some live rock to help with the cycle. Also to cure the live rock.
Here is the design of the light fixture which I have done on CAD.



Built it today. just used some aluminium channel. siliconed everything together and it came out really nice.
Now to supper glue the LED's into place and it will look awsum. A little broke now and time to get back to B-Tech work