Man, I am jealous!! This is going to be an awesome tank in a year or so!! Well it's awesome now, but I mean when it gets more corals and stuff in it, and matures.
Beautiful fish & really really great looking aquascaping ! This tank is & is going to be soooooooo cool !
Man your fish look small in that big open ocean. Great pics. What is the brand and model of your camera. My tank has finally cycled. I will be adding pics soon!
screwsloose - thanks for sharing the pics !!! Looking great, so cool, looking at them reminded me of diving on a coral reef in the keys, all the fish wow, it was just like I was diving with them awesome tank & pics !!!
Jason, Congratulations. This has been a long time coming. It looks to me like it was well worth the effort, and I'm also excited to see it in person. At least no one can call the tang police on you with that behemoth...
Great looking tank, bet you're glad to have the hard part out of the way. Can't wait for a meeting at your house so you can show us all the set up. Congrats, and have fun with it.
yes indeed. that part was a pain but it was fun at the same time. i had one design flaw that i overlooked and have the parts to fix it on the way. other then that its time to build a skin and canopy. thanks for the compliments guys.
not even close lol. we could add all our tanks together and still not create what he has done. he is an aqua god lol. any one know how big his tank is? i have never seen an exact volume posted.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... cle_id=151 Aquarium vital statistics > The L-shaped display tank has a capacity of around 1200 gal (5500l.) and is further supplemented by a sump extending over the same area, located beneath the tank which is 33cm deep. This adds something like an extra 200 gal (900 l.) to the already massive display tank's capacity. This isn't the main full water-holding capacity of the aquarium either, as a further 2300 gal. (10,400 l.) is held in a large reservoir room, which is continuously circulated through the display area. > The reservoir room and the missing segment from the L-shaped display tank are also used to house the impressive array of jumbo-sized kit including skimmers, coolers, calcium and pH control equipment, additive delivery systems and chemical absorbers. Biological filtration David doesn't use supplementary filtration such as trickle towers or plenums. All bacterial reduction of organic wastes, which aren't directly skimmed from the system, takes place in the display tank's living rock and other rockwork in Berlin method style. > A small refugium has recently been added containing live Caulerpa to act as an algal scrubber. This is lit during non-photo period times to help reduce night-time CO2 levels and further reduce residual levels of nitrate, phosphate and other pollutants. > Approximate volume of living rock and other filter media in display tank is 1.35cu metres (1.5 tonnes). Chemical filtration > David is a strong believer in maintaining the water in his system as phosphate-free as possible as a way of exacting complete control on nuisance algae forms. A sand filter filled with 25 l. of Rowaphos phosphate remover is plumbed in line for this purpose. He also monitors most elements of water management continuously using his IKS computer, which provides constant 'LED' read-outs using information from probes located in the sump. These act both as a guide in maintaining his very stable conditions, and also help in employing the very precise methods he uses for adding calcium and other additives. Water changes 10% water changes once a month, plus 50% change every six months. Skimming > 1 x Deltec fitted with Needle Wheel Venturis powered by 5 x Eheim 1060s (dimensions: 600mm x 180mm) rectangular-shaped reactor chamber 430mm high. > 1 x Deltec fitted with Needle Wheel Venturis powered by 4 x Eheim 1060s (dimensions: 300mm diameter x 980mm high). > 1 x Saunders Helango 500 (dimensions: 450mm diameter x 2 270mm high). All skimmers are self-cleaning, an essential requirement for such large pieces of equipment. Calcium/Carbonate hardness management David maintains his calcium, KH and pH at a constant level by employing Calcium CO2 reactors 24 hours per day. This is supplemented by a Kalkwasser (Calcium Hydroxide) delivery system, which is used in the non-photo period principally to regulate pH which normally falls when the lights are turned off. This only occurs in enclosed systems like aquaria because of the build up of acidic CO2 during the night. It is not a feature of a natural reef, where pH remains stable through the whole 24-hour period. > 1 x Deltec CO2 reactor (using Rowalith and Rowadur). > 1 x Deltec Fluidised reactor (using Rowalith C). > 1 x Deltec Kalkwasser Stirrer and reactor. All evaporated water and skimmer wash-out water is added via the reactor. > Kalkwasser is added between 7am and 12pm cycling on/off - on for seven minutes - off for three minutes. Water circulation In David's view, strong water movement is essential in a successful reef tank. The water in the main display area is turned over 14 times an hour, with: > 3 x I.C.S pumps @ 800 gal./hr, 85% continuity 2244 gal./hr (tank circulation). > 6 x Sequence pumps @ 3300 gal./hr, 100% continuity 12,000 gal./hr (tank circulation). > 2 x Deltec pumps @ 2000 gal./hr 100% continuity 4000 gal./hr (sump/tank flow). > 1 x Little Giant pump and 1 x Saunders pump, 100% continuity 880 gal./hr (reservoir flow and return), operating as a pair via float switches delivering water to the tank from the reservoir room (40m pipe run). Total: 19,124 gal/hr. All circulating water is returned to the main display area through the base of the tank. > Further circulation is provided by one of the skimmers connected to sump (2419 gal./hr) and two separate high-pressure Deltec pumps, each at 600 gal./hr deliver water to/from sump for the chillers. Lighting All lamps are metal halides > 1 x Twin 400W 20000 Kelvin/ 400W 5000 Kelvin (Osram); 30cm above water . > 3 x Single 1000W 10000 Kelvin (Hilt) 45cm above water. > 1 x Single 1000W 20000 Kelvin (Osram) 45cm above water. The aquarium needs no supplementary heating, and the lighting system is temperature controlled by full air-conditioning. Photo period 1 x 20000K on at noon. 1 x 20000K on at 2pm. Rest of lights on at 2.30pm. Lights off at 10.30pm; reverse order of above over 15 minutes. Cooling > 1 x titanium shell and tube coil, heat exchanger (connected to an external refrigeration unit). > 2 x split evaporator/condenser units (one located above the main display tank; the other in the reservoir room). > 1 x latent heat evaporation unit (spinning spray bar and forced down draft air). Cooling systems are controlled by the main IKS computer. Water parameters Temperature 24.7�C (76�F) pH 8.1-8.45 SG 1.026 Nitrite (mg/l)0.02 Nitrate (mg/l) 5-10 Phosphate Less than 0.015 Calcium (mg/l) 480 Alkalinity (dKH) 7.5-7.8 Alkalinity with CO2 reactor (dKH) >35 ORP 470mV
How about an update! Lets see the stand and canopy, along with full tank shots and it inhabitants. Can you document your successes and failures along the way too?
ok ill get pics of everything and work on an update for you. so far all is pluging along well. had a couple hic-ups along the way but everythings on track again now. i still havent started on the stand or canopy yet, been to busy working. i just started my own company so i have been going 90 to nothing lately. still haevnt gotten around to getting that calcium reactor online yet either. once i do that i will be ready to inclose the stand. i have left it open so far just in case there was anything i wanted to change or redo but other then a couple of plumbing reconfigurations all is as it was original. let me work on the full update tomorrow.