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[soon to be} Tim's Divided Breeding Setup [soon to be]


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Soon to be revealed my custom breeding setup. Keep your eyes on the lookout for a full update!

Part 1 is bottom of the First Page!

Part 2 will be up before the weekend!! Keep an eye out!

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Nice teaser... Sounds exciting...can't wait for all to be revealed.:applause:

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I will hopefully have it all together tonight. Im just getting all my photos together from my Phone and Canon 60D. No rack just yet Squiggle. But a nice breeding setup in my bedroom for now ;) for the shrimp that is :p

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Hahaha, I have a nice breeding setup in my bedroom too but the shrimp are all in the garage, lol :smiley_simmons:

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Whats this about whips and chains Squiggles?

We took PLENTY of photos the other day when i was over giving Timothy a hand. Lots of fun photos too. HURRY UP!

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We are all waiting !!!! Where is the pics/story

Love reading people's progress reports

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HAHHHAHAA kinda shot myself in the foot.
Yes you did' date=' especially as it came after this post-277-139909852354_thumb.jpg
Whats this about whips and chains Squiggles?

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Whats this about whips and chains Squiggles?

We took PLENTY of photos the other day when i was over giving Timothy a hand. Lots of fun photos too. HURRY UP!

I believe I must repeat Gary's earlier statement, WOWZA! I might have fun in my bedroom(sorry no chains & whips, just cuffs & lube) but I don't take photos & if I did I wouldn't post them here. I think they should be posted on one of those fetish sites, won't somebody please think of the children! hahaha :smiley_simmons:

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Okay guys and girls!

So I've decided to do a few smaller updates instead of a massive one. As I do have quite a few photos!

Firstly this all came about as I always wanted to get a setup done for this spot in my room and so i decided to do a custom breeding setup to make it all fit in a particular space in my room.

Tank is roughly 1565 Length X 400 High X 560 Width

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So I started building the stand. Went a bit overkill on the stand as the weight from water and soil would equate to a fair amount. So I did extra supports, plus I wanted to make the underneath usable for another tank to do cherries or show guppys/grow plants.

Needed 2 x Base and Top

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As you can see I have put on the 6 legs on so far but I will also be doubling up as the legs so far are more supports rather than holding the load of weight to be applied.

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Applied a Sheet of Mdf to level out the surface before I put foam down to then put the tank onto.

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As you can see I have added the main supports

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Test fitted the tank on the bare stand.

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Now I know you guys wont like this but I didn't take photos of me doing the flooring of the stand or of putting the trimmings on. But here is a photo once painted.

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The trimming does not go all the way around as the space I have to put this into I need it to sit flush to make it look really presentable and get that little bit of extra space.

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Cab and Tank were moved into place

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5ft Light picked up from a LFS. Cost me $0 =]

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Was going to do 2 doors that would just pop on and pop off so I could have one side underneath for gear and equipment and the other side for a future tank. But decided to just use one whole length. This is obviously just a testing photo.

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Keep posted for the next update! Hopefully before the weekend ;)

Tim

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boooooo you tease. that was the shittest update ive ever seen hahaahahaha

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Oh maybe because I tell you and show you everything I do, so this is all old news to you Rob hahaha!!

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Looks great Tim, cant wait to see more :encouragement:

What filtration will you be running on this?

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Wow dude, that looks awesome! Very cool indeed, well done! :victorious:

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Nice one mate looking really good! Love a black stand.

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Nothing beat's an awesome DIY project, thanks for the update! Would love to know what your filtration is gonna be

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Filtration was posted in Tims first thread.

Eheim 2213 running water from one end to the other and 5 x twin sponge filters.

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Looks really good! :encouragement:

I wish my husband would stop building boring things (like walls and bathrooms and stuff) and build cool tank setups instead!

I'm really jaloaus! :crushed:

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Awesome setup. Great work.

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As rob stated. 2213 running inlet first tank to outlet in last tank and 1x twin sponge filter in each tank. All will be explained in the next installment haha

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Nice work on the cabinetry, Timmeh. As I said before just a bit Sus. On only one hole in the tanks for water flow?

You can come and build my stands anytime.

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What a nice place to put the tank. Can't wait to see the project finish and running.

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