Personal - Soraci

I love fish, and I love my reef tank.

Check out my YouTube Channel for videos.

This is a top down view of my 120. I started off like everyone else, lots of different coral. Now I’m starting to transition to more of the branch and Montipora-type corals.

Tank is lit by two Kessil A360s, and everything connects to an Apex system so I can monitor and fine tune the tank.

The basics of the reef tank consist of 100 pounds of sand, 120 pounds of live rock. The sump is a 40 gallon eshopps with a Reef Octopus skimmer NWB-150, refugium, and Eheim pump.

The tank is a custom SC Aquarium, 1/2 Sapphire glass. It has the euro lip so splashing is reduced and I can keep it as an open-top tank.

Thanks for checking out my 120 gallon reef tank

Wood you believe there’s not a whole lot of wooden tank templates available online? ( yes, that ‘wood’ was intentional. I’m an English major, remember?).

I wanted to build a toy tank for my baby nephew but could not find a design I liked. I’m completely new to wood-working so why not build something from scratch? See below for the “plans” although I would still call this project a prototype.

This was the start. The body of the tank is 5 main pieces: the center, sides, and “side caps.”

The center was built with 2x4s. First, cut out the center, and the sides using a band saw. The two sides should be identical, and a little different than the center. This gives the tank a more realistic effect. But feel free to use your own creativity.

Once’s you cut the pieces the way you like them, give them a test fit!

Starting to look like a tank, right?

Ok, so we want this thing to move right? Otherwise, what’s the point? Here’s what I did. I cut some wholes in the side pieces…. enough to accommodate some wooden hobby store bought wheels. Then, clamp the center and sides together.

Also, feel free to stain your pieces however you see fit.

Here’s an underneath picture. You have the center pieces, dowels, wheels, then the side caps. I used two wheels per corner to make it more tank like.

Here is the top. Pretty simple to make. I tried to build this as a “wood only” toy, so in order to make the top move I used a larger dowel with a smaller dowel as a pin to hold it into the top.

What you do next after you figure out what your top will look like, is cut a slice off the bottom. Then you can drill a large hole in the top slice to accommodate the pin, and a smaller hole in the bottom slice to accommodate the dowel. This is going to allow the tank top to move.