94 Gallon Cube (pics of construction)

The 2 - 1/4" panels will be just fine as long as they're nailed good or even better if they are nailed and glued in place. This will be strong enough. You will not need corner braces.

Just the two vertical 2x4's will be enough. The back panel will be enough to replace the structure lost to the drilled hole, so you don't need metal braces.

Looks great as far as I can tell.

I need some advice on the best way to plumb my return lines. This week I recieved a mag 12 and a SCWD device. I was thinking the best position would be one return on each corner of the tank. I would have pipes run behind the tank and over the top edge. Is this a good way of doing it?

My goal is to create very strong current directed at the top of a rock pile where I hope to place a ritteri some day. One of my concerns is the pump's power. I did a test in the sink and was shocked at how much water it put out. What is a good method of making the water stream from the return more spread out and not focused?

Thanks

Is this what you are talking about Tim?

I couldn't get a picture of the ball pipe, but is this the same thing as the "Flexible ball-socket joint tubing" at marine depot (here.... http://www.marinedepot.com/a_ft_2.asp?CartId=#bs).

 

yeah - that's the fan and the ball pipe is that flexible stuff.
Here is my aweXome illustration:

I'll be doing a signing of my art at the LFS :)
Tim

Yeah I figure the pvc can sit on the 2" rim. I've got a very blue 10K(not sure on brand) + VHO actinic you can see pics on march TOTM.
Tim

nice cube tank pic ^

BananaTropics wrote: 1mariner7 wrote: So how did you do the milling of the overflow slots?  Those look great- crisp, and uniform . . .great job! Its amazing what you can do with an exacto knife, isn't it! The slots are all the same to within 1/1000th of an inch of each other. It was done on a very large mill used for precision milling of wood, metal and plastic. Its a pretty amazing machine. I drilled all the holes by mainly watching a computer screen to see where the drill was in XYZ cooridinates.

Wow, can I come play in your garage!Sounds like you have way cool toys!

While a mill is the best tool for that job, a woodworking router mounted in a table could be used to get similar results.  I only say this because it's much more likely you have, or have access to, a router then a mill .

The stand has been fixed to allow for a bottom hole in the tank. How's it look?

oh, but where is your return plumbing going to go up at?

IMO it will work great.