New 300 gallon bare bottom discus community tank in work

I'm ordering acrylic 96x30x24" tank with external overflow on the side which will be my discus community tank in my living room. I'm still working on sump 48x20x18" but not final yet. Yesterday, I had good friends came over helping on stand. Here are some pics.


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Can you describe your overflow/filtration system in detail please? I'm desperately trying to figure out a way to reduce hands on work for my 240g with the 4 drilled holes in the tank, its a reef overflow set up and want to do the best job with it.

Best of luck on your set up! Excitingly big !

Hi Marnie,

here are some ideas / options of overflow. mine is external overflow similar pic #8

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/begi...ted-guide.html

and here is better explanation
http://www.glassreef.com/basics_overflow.php

Hth,
Tony


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Very nice

Nice start Tony. Can't wait to see it all set up.

It is looking great Tony, I was just building my stands today as well.:)

The rack / stand looks SOLID! Can't wait to see the TANK!

When will the 300 gallon be in?

Thank you everyone. I only able to our in couple hours each weekend but will update asap. Hopefully we'll be done couple weeks and tank up running sometime in June.

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Here what we have done this week

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i would like to cut 2 front openings.Now I need to find a router on Craiglist or find someone can help on this. Other than that, we may finish molding and stain next week.

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Great project ... can't wait to see discus in that big tank :)

Great job Tony