My 4ft black tank setup

Hey jus thought I would a small write up on new tank
Hope you guys enjoy my journey as much as I did
Any questions, suggestions, comments are than welcome.
A few months back I bought a new 4ft tank
Without even knowing exactly what I was gonna do do with, when I finally got the tank into my house, ideas of what I was gonna do started driving me crazy.
Anyway I knew it was gonna be planted at least.

So first I built a stand, completely out of timber. Here's the pics....





While building that I decided to build a water/sandfall

Here are the pics





I then got a beautiful piece of driftwood, which was way to big for the tank so I had to cut it in half, pics below...




Finally finished the stand last week

Here's the pics






Yesterday my friends and I put everything together

Still gotta finish up lighting and canopy
Anyway I decided to go with a full rainbow fish tank, well that's what I wanted but my wife loved some of my old fish, including her black suede fish (black Mollie)a gourami, a hoplo and and ancistris....so ya, not exactly a full rainbow setup.....
Anyway here are the pics of the final product hope you guys like it and make suggestions to make the tank better....






Thanks for reading
And looking.....I love fish tank pics

 

Nice man!

 

Thanks bud

 

Wow! Beautiful work. You've got skills. Love the sand fall. I'm looking forward to watching this mature.

 

Much appreciated @Broder
Yeah just need to find the right gravel for the sandfall though, PFS isn't cutting it for me
Hopefully I can find more plants dat would suit the idea of the tank patience I guess

 

I didn't like the look pfs either when I made my sand fall. I tried fine beach sand which blew all over the place. Would have worked well if there was less flow in the tank. At the end of the day, the pfs worked best with the least amount of maintenance required. I almost bought a bag of white reptile sand, but in the nick of time read that it was actually calcium carbonate!

 

Shew u dodged a bullet there hey @Broder

 

Love DIY, (although I suck at it) you're a professional craftsman, great work!

 

Very nice set-up!!! Your sand fall is going to bring life to that corner, and when the left side's plants mature I think it will be even more of a beauty!!!

Only one thing........ :deal:
It is a serious offense to cut large driftwood, especially such a beautiful piece.. That's like cutting the Mona Lisa in two coz she doesn't fit in a particular frame..

Yours truly
A driftwood fanatic
:fight:

(In jest as always)
Kali

 

Lolololol @RKali. I had no choice as that was the smallest piece the lady had, sorry though I completely agree

 

Awh thanks @Jwh, I can weld but I feel timber is more forgiving and alterations are easier than steel

 

Awesome Craftmanship!! Loving the many members going for Rainbows. One of my Favorite fish!

 

Wow, Looks really Good!

 

Thanks @michaelvbd and @Ortaega, while on the subject
Does anyone know where I can find some pseudomugil furcatus species?

 

Well Done , Looks awesome .

 

Thanks buddy

 

Wow! That is incredible. Well done

 

Awesome work, really inspiring. You got Madd skills, Respect....:love:

 

Thanks guys
Really appreciate it

 

Jus need to find more tym to put in 1 more tree (dw) to soften the hard line of the rock feature