Mirage's 12 Gallon Long

[MGDMIRAGE]

Marine Depot's awesome packaging.

Holy Packing Peanuts!

A sample rock.

 

[Faciosity]

Pretty cool. What's the plans with it?

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Thanks Ben,
External overflow, dual returns with a SCWD, no pumps or anything in display, 4 Par38 Dimable LEDs 12watts each. The sump will consist of a 29 gallon tank and probably an AquaC Remora Pro rated for 125 gallons i have lying around. I plan to house mixed corals and tiny gobies.

 

[Faciosity]

Sounds great, can't wait to see what you do with it! I can donate a couple frags when you are ready if it would help your project move along. Any thoughts to what gobies?

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Thanks, thinking trimma, and green banded, maybe a shrimp goby. Tying as much volume as i can to it so I'm not too terribly limited. Perhaps some firefish too, I will have a canopy in place first I know they are jump happy.

 

[fishguy95]

Looks good. Just one question, why in the display tank only 12 gallons, but your sump is going to 29 gallons.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Looks good. Just one question, why in the display tank only 12 gallons, but your sump is going to 29 gallons.

I was waiting for that. I love the look of these tanks but wanted more volume so i could add more little fish. Plus Petco had the dollar per gallon sale so the 29 was cheap

 

[Krish]

Neat little tank! Congrats and good luck with it!!

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Thanks Krish!

Had the glass cut today and put together the overflow box. Will retouch the silicone with a razor blade in a few spots in a few days when i go to drill the bulkhead hole.

 

[fishguy95]

Ok. That sounds like you got a good deal on the 29. I wish I even had a petco within easy reach that I could go to. But my mom will not let me go bigger than my current system anyway ( 55 gallon pefecto main display with a 30 gallon perfecto refugium), she says I have to wait until I have my own house to get a 200 gallon display.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Yeah my room was full of tanks when i was a kid, drove my mom nuts. At one time i had 7 tanks in my room from 55 gallons to 2 gallons.

 

[spllbnd2]

Nice looking tank. Tagging along.

 

[fishguy95]

Same here about the multiple tanks, at one time I had 1x 55 gallon, 3x 10 gallons, 1x 8 gallon, 2x 2-1/2 gallons, and 1x 1 gallon. They were all in the living room also, but they were all freshwater so it was easier to care for them. Now I only have a 55 gallon display tank with a 30 gallon refugium saltwater tank, but it also cost about the same to run so my mom is not all to happy about it. She does how ever look at the saltwater tank a lot more than she ever did the freshwater tanks.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Yeah reefing ain't cheap but it sure is worth the money, and the fish have so much more personality than freshwater fish i find. I had so many freshwater fish when i was a kid, cichlids were always my favorite cause they actually seemed to show some intelligence. In my book anything that can set up a territory has some thought going on

Going to drill the bulkhead in overflow today then probably silicone the overflow onto tank. Will get some pics up later.

Leak tested overflow last night and it had zero leaks, was interesting to test since its an odd shape. I had to lay it at like a 30 degree angle and fill it with water.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Freshly cut! That is a 1.5" low profile bulkhead btw... it might be overkill but hey!

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Still gotta touch up that silicone, trying to find my razor glass scrapers still. I hope to have it fairly cleaned up and mostly match the silicone on the Mr.Aqua. Going to cut an acrylic top for this box too, the glass shop wanted an arm and leg to cut this glass so i left off the top piece lol.

Something interesting i'm going to try... making glass teeth for the overflow lol, we'll see how it goes.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

The two have joined forces to become one superpower.

Got some wicked seams on this match up too

Also touched up the box silicone, looks pretty good.

 

[MGDMIRAGE]

Got my track lighting today for the Par38 bulbs... now to figure out how to mount it.. hmm

 

[noobaquariumust]

looks really good hope to see pictures when you get your light figured out and mounted:biggrin1:

 

[Krish]

Freshly cut! That is a 1.5" low profile bulkhead btw... it might be overkill but hey!

Wow!! Better safe than sorry huh? 1.5...is huge, but atleast you won't have anything to worry about with your drain.

Looking good!!