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Alright, lets get this started!
Here is my little tank I am going to do for this competition. Its a 10g handmade tank I made sometime ago, and I am going to do a 'lagoon softy garden' style tank. It will be mostly be shrooms and a few other softies, with one small fish, likely a clown.
The tank its self is one I built sometime back from a bunch of scrap glass I had acquired free from some guy on craigslist a few years back. I made 5 40g tanks and this one little 10g frag tank. All it cost me was the silicon, $10 a tube, and the time to build it.
I also won a few things at reefstock this year for the raffles. I won the kessil H160, a box of salt, and that neo-therm heater. I spent $100 on raffle tickets to win those.
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I think I still have some more scrap glass outside, so I am thinking to make a small chamber in the back to put some filter media, and use a maxijet 600 as the return pump. Wont hide it very well since its glass but wont cost much to do that. Other option would be to go to plasticare and just get some scrap black acrylic for fairly cheap and use that.
I have a ton of rock and sand on hand, most I picked up for $1 or less a pound. I've been curing it for sometime though, (like 2 years or more now) so it should be ready to go
Still to do: figure out how I'm going to hang the light, and I would like to figure out a simple gravity fed ato for it.
Cost/Spending so far
- Tank (1x silicon tube, glass) $20
- Overflow/filter box (glass/silicon) $10
- Kessil, and heater $100
- Maxijet Used - $10
- Bag of reef sand $10
- Rock 10# - $50
- Return elbows - $2.50
- Ceramic Media - $4
- Charcoal with micro mesh bag - $2
- Snails (2 trocus, 3 margarita, 1 nass) - 11
- Aquatic Art purchase (Tigger Pods, High Fin Goby, Candy Cane Pistol shrimp, Sponge filter media) - 70.08
- Mushroom coral (Leisure Suit Larry) - $35
- BRS order ( clear mesh netting, maxijet 400) - $33.26
- Screen frame - $21
- Airstone and airline - $3
- Air pump(tetra 60) - $12
- mushroom corals X3 - $60
- lrg ricodia mushroom - $40
- Gonzo golden dragon shroom - $35
- Encrusting Gorgonian - $10
- Combo rock from AA - $82
- Purple leather, devil's hand, and unnamed zoa - $30
- Highlighter Goni from AA - $30
- Coral DBTC pack (Red favia, pink and golds, halle berries, gorilla nipples, green fungia) - $60
- Clip on fan - $7
- Rainford Goby - $8
- ATO float and tubing - $25
- Possum wrasse - $35
- Ricordia - $15
-Reefstock corals - $105 - yuma rock and other shrooms
- High-fin, Hector and Clown gobies - $35
Total spent TD - $939.84
Here is my little tank I am going to do for this competition. Its a 10g handmade tank I made sometime ago, and I am going to do a 'lagoon softy garden' style tank. It will be mostly be shrooms and a few other softies, with one small fish, likely a clown.
The tank its self is one I built sometime back from a bunch of scrap glass I had acquired free from some guy on craigslist a few years back. I made 5 40g tanks and this one little 10g frag tank. All it cost me was the silicon, $10 a tube, and the time to build it.
I also won a few things at reefstock this year for the raffles. I won the kessil H160, a box of salt, and that neo-therm heater. I spent $100 on raffle tickets to win those.
View attachment 14504
I think I still have some more scrap glass outside, so I am thinking to make a small chamber in the back to put some filter media, and use a maxijet 600 as the return pump. Wont hide it very well since its glass but wont cost much to do that. Other option would be to go to plasticare and just get some scrap black acrylic for fairly cheap and use that.
I have a ton of rock and sand on hand, most I picked up for $1 or less a pound. I've been curing it for sometime though, (like 2 years or more now) so it should be ready to go
Still to do: figure out how I'm going to hang the light, and I would like to figure out a simple gravity fed ato for it.
Cost/Spending so far
- Tank (1x silicon tube, glass) $20
- Overflow/filter box (glass/silicon) $10
- Kessil, and heater $100
- Maxijet Used - $10
- Bag of reef sand $10
- Rock 10# - $50
- Return elbows - $2.50
- Ceramic Media - $4
- Charcoal with micro mesh bag - $2
- Snails (2 trocus, 3 margarita, 1 nass) - 11
- Aquatic Art purchase (Tigger Pods, High Fin Goby, Candy Cane Pistol shrimp, Sponge filter media) - 70.08
- Mushroom coral (Leisure Suit Larry) - $35
- BRS order ( clear mesh netting, maxijet 400) - $33.26
- Screen frame - $21
- Airstone and airline - $3
- Air pump(tetra 60) - $12
- mushroom corals X3 - $60
- lrg ricodia mushroom - $40
- Gonzo golden dragon shroom - $35
- Encrusting Gorgonian - $10
- Combo rock from AA - $82
- Purple leather, devil's hand, and unnamed zoa - $30
- Highlighter Goni from AA - $30
- Coral DBTC pack (Red favia, pink and golds, halle berries, gorilla nipples, green fungia) - $60
- Clip on fan - $7
- Rainford Goby - $8
- ATO float and tubing - $25
- Possum wrasse - $35
- Ricordia - $15
-Reefstock corals - $105 - yuma rock and other shrooms
- High-fin, Hector and Clown gobies - $35
Total spent TD - $939.84
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