First Setup plan

I keep editing this because i am having trouble posting the whole message at once.

Ok I am planning a 100 gallon long tank setup.

Tank will be ordered from glasscages. I am near by so I can go pick it up myself, and it will be drilled with bulk heads and ready to setup. Once I know what sizes they need to be, and location.

I will be doing a reverse under gravel setup with a diy wet/dry sump, useing my current 10 gallon tank.
The plan is to copy Chompers design, once he reveals his new setup mods.



I have added a bunch of cutoffs and bypasses to allow me to route the water any way i might want. Do water changes, drain or fill the tank, anything.

Everything I am doing is based on my new house. Just so happens that I have 6 feet of crawl space under the tank location. There is an access door, power, water, and sewer as well.







I am planning a DIY background. Most of the back will be 2" foam rock, and a tree to hide the water lines.

I do not know what brand or size pump or pluming yet?????

I will use greatstuff and coat hangers to makes the roots kinda loop a bit. Then i will coat everything with some kinda low lime cement I hope, by hydraulic?? Something i dont have to cycle the tank 100 times to get right.

Hopefully the extra pluming will let me cycle just the sump, so I can get it established, yet still fill and drain the tank if I have to because of the background, and again when i use some ammonia to jump start things.

My 10 has 1 pleco and 8 neons in it, and is overdue filter change. Filter is a 40-60 so i have two good pads i can drop in my sump. and was i clean it the 2 new pads will be ready in a few days. I figure i can also use some of the water for the sump, and the rest and the gravel for the tank.

I will also use and air pump and stone under the scrubbies??

ANy recomendations suggestions, please let me know.

For Fish I am thinking about native. I am no fisherman, so I will be hoping someone in my area can help me when i go to stock.


Big thanks to everyone, this forum is great.

For anyone interested the cabinet will match these.

I am worried about the effects of concrete. I have been searching and reading for weeks. It seems that the products that do not require weeks and several water chages, are hard to find here. But i found a few people that use either a hydraulic cement for pool repairs, or a concrete resurfer compound. I am on county water, so do not realy want to pay for thousand gallons of water.

I would like to build my background this week, so it can be curing. need to get some dimensions and get to work.

sostoudt unk at this time, if i have the extra funds, yes.

Here is a little more on the background. Tree will be 8 " at thickest point, most of rocks will be 2" thick, near tree will be 4" thick, this is to clear bulkheads i think i need that much.

IF i can leave out 1 2" piece i would??????

The black circles are caves/holes with screen on the inside, and along top I think I will need this to keep fish out????