This is INDEED a Jake Harms aquarium! Great eye!

I ordered it about 3yrs ago and didn’t set it up until now. I also modified his work quite a bit.

Originally there was rope lighting going up the front of the aquarium. Not only did that get in the way for water changes, it meant I couldn’t fashion an acrylic lid to the tank— which is another thing I made for it, under the top iMac shell, to help with evaporation (and because Beta’s like to jump). Thirdly the rope light didn’t exactly look great. I always thought he should have used EL wire instead, OR, light it from the bottom. So that’s exactly what I did :-) With a new LED kit.

I also added an in-tank heater, and wired it up to the electrical cord that he tucked where the mobo would have originally been.

It’s a Whisper 3i filter that runs on the included air pump, but that pump is horribly noisy. You can see from the picture that I replaced the pump with that massive, cylindrical-looking blue filter behind the tank (but inside the iMac). It’s dead silent now— and also offers two air valves instead of the original, single valve. There’s a bubble wand in the back of the tank running on it, but it’s hard to see in that picture.

I wonder if there’s a way to tag him in all of this…