Nice Aquariums I have seen

[Idaho Bob]

I thought I'd start a thread where people could post photos of ane discuss some Boise reef aquariums. For instance, we could post photos of the aquariums the club tours at its monthly meeting, as well as photos of your own tank, or tanks worth looking at. I'll plan on taking photos of the tanks we visit during our monthly meeting. The perfect one to start with is a tour of Larry Read's tank, which Steve Nipper and I visited recently. Larry said he would give the group a tour some evening in November if people are interested.

Anyway, to start off the tour of Larry's tank, here is a link to photos of his tank, and below are the specs of his tank.

http://www.dykaslaw.com/READ/read.htm

The Lee Read Reef Aquarium
Type: Saltwater tropical
Size: 1200 gallons
Rock: 900 lbs
Total Weight: Approximately 10,000 lbs
Temperature: 78.5 Degrees Fahrenheit
Salt Concentration: Specific Gravity 1.024
Lighting: 4-400 watt Metal Halide and 6 VI-lO fluorescent tubes
Feeding schedule: Every other day
Cleaning schedule: Every other day
Water changes: 300 gallons once a month

Fish Inhabitants:
One Powder Blue Tang (Acanthui-us leucosternon)
Two Common Clowns (Amphiprion ocellaris)
One Rusty Dwarf Angel
Six Green Chromis (Chromis caerulea)
Two Royal Gramma (Orarnma loreto)
One Goatfish (Mulloidichthys dentatus)
One Naso Tang (Naso lituratus)
Four Hippo or Regal Tangs (Paracanthurus hepatus)
One Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavesens)
Three Sailtin Tangs (Zebrasoma veleferum)
One Yellow Eyed Tang I ~. 4
One Blue Eyed Tang

Coral Inhabitants:
Assorted Leather Corals (Sarcohytons)
Two Flower Pot Corals (Goniopora)
Two Bubble Tipped Coral (Physogyra lichtensteinii)
Assorted Palythoa
Assorted Zoanthus
Assorted Mushrooms (Discosoma)
Assorted Snails (Molluscs)
One Clam (Tridacna)
Assorted Hentilt Crabs
Two Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboineesis)
Five Brittle Stars (Echinoderms)
One Sea Urchin (Diadema setosuTu)
Assorted Clavularja

[Idaho Bob]

Kaden Sinclair's tank was the tank we visited after the November IMAS meeting. The link below takes you to photos of Kaden's tank, which will take a long time to load if you are using a modem. Next time we'll use thumbnails.

www.idahoreefs.org/tours/kaden/Kaden.htm

The particulars of Kadens tank are as follows:

Type: Saltwater Reef
Size: 155 Bowfront
Rock: 150 lbs
Total Weight: Approximately 1,800 lbs.
Temperature: 78 Degrees Fahrenheit
Salt Concentration: Specific Gravity of 1.025
Lighting: 8-96 watt Power Compact bulbs. 1/2 actinic blue, 1/2 full spectrum.
Feeding Schedule: Varies. Typically every other day
Cleaning Schedule: rare/minimal
Water Changes: As needed (my sinularia tells me when it is time by looking cranky)
Make up water: Added every other day directly from my faucet (I have well water)


Fish:
2 Maroon clowns (just added)
1 Percula clown
1 Copper banded butterfly
1 Nasso Tang
1 Black Ribbon Eel
1 Mandarin Goby (dragonette)
3 Damsels (blue--and the number varies since they are eel food)
2 Brittle Stars
1 Serpent Star
1 Blue Star
1 Long Spined Urchin
1 Tiger Cowrie
1 Sea Apple

Corals (generalities, since I'm not sure of everything):

Pagoda Coral
Various Sinularia
Wood Polyps
Goniopora
A few Acropora (thanks Scott!!)
Gorgonians
Sea Mat (Elephant Ear)
Various Sarcophytons
Various Zoanthids
Various Mushrooms
Frogspawn
Hammer coral (thanks Steven!!!)

[Idaho Bob]

On the photos of Kaden's tank, the first two are taken by me, and the others are by Scott Morrell, who had the foresight to have good batteries in his camera. Thanks Scott!

[jurisnipper]

>Hammer coral (thanks Steven!!!)

Actually, thank Doug (dougchambers). I was just the middleman.

On the Lee Read tank, the link is now:

http://www.idahoreefs.org/tours/read/read.htm

SMN

[CathyO]

Beautiful pictures Bob! and Scott :) This is a great idea Bob, to gather pictures of various tanks. I am ready for a Lee Read tour. But November is almost over!

[heedicus]

You all have not taken the Lee Read tour yet???
Well if the tour winds up happening in december then count me in. On a side note; it seems like the kenpo school that I am teaching at seems to be closing so I just may finally be able to make it to the meetings! wahoo,
tren

[Anemia]

Just of note: the Lee Reed Tour seems to be down, also is this tank in his store or at his home? If it's in the store, I'll have to go check it out while in Boise for Christmas.

[kgross]

The tank is in lee read jewelers which is located in Meridian just off of the freeway. If you read FAMA mag you can see pictures of the the tank in one of the custom acylic tank manufactures ad.

Kim gross
jen's saltwater haven
http://www.jensalt.com

[Anemia]

yeah, I seem to remember hearing about the tank in his radio ads when the building first opened up (while I was still living in Boise). Too bad I never got around to checking it out.

[jurisnipper]

The Lee Read tank pics were moved to:

http://www.idahoreefs.org/tours/read/read.htm

FYI.

SMN

[Idaho Bob]

We recently visited Scott Morell's tank and fragged out some specimens. Some photos of Scott's tank are located at the link below.

http://www.idahoreefs.org/tours/scott/Scott.htm

The parameters of Scott's tank are as follows:

Type: Saltwater Reef
Size: 120 gallon
Filtration: ~100 lbs aragocrete and 40lbs live rock, plenum w/4" sand bed, refugium w/4" sand bed, BakPak protien skimmer.
Temperature: 78 Degrees Fahrenheit
Salt Concentration: Specific Gravity of 1.024
Lighting:
3 110 watt VHO Actinic White
1 110 watt VHO Actinic Blue
1 40 watt NO Actinic White
3 40 watt NO Actinic Blue


Feeding Schedule: Water changed and Kalk drip no feeding except fish every other day of so
Cleaning Schedule: Clean the glass every other day or so. Power heads once a month.
Water Changes: 20 gallons once a month
Make up water: 2 gallons a day of kalk wasser. I have poor tap water so I use an RO unit for the makeup water.

Here is a link to the history of the tank:

http://www.garf.org/40watt_vho.html

Thanks,

Scott

[jurisnipper]

Scott:

Is your setup considered a "bullet proof reef" per GARF's definition/instruction/direction?

SMN

[Idaho Bob]

The January meeting of IMAS included a tour of Doug Chambers tank. I took some photos, but frankly, the photos on Doug's web site are better. He also has his maintenance schedule there.

http://dougc3.home.mindspring.com/Reefpage/Index.htm

Type: Saltwater Reef
Established: March 2002
Stand and Hood: Solid Oak DIY w/ 2X4 Sub-frame
Size: 75-Gallon AGA RR
Sump: 20-Gallon w/Acrylic Baffles
Rock: 90-lbs (Gulf-View, Fiji)
Sand: 180-lbs (4.5-5.5" Pure Caribbean Aragonite)
Total Weight: Approximately 1,300 lbs w/ Stand
Temperature: 81.5 - 82.3 Fahrenheit
Salt Concentration: SG of 1.025 (Instant Ocean)
Lighting: 6-110W URI VHO on IceCap 660's. (3 Actinic, 3 Aquasun)
Feeding Schedule: Two frozen cubes every morning, 1 pinch flake nightly, DT's every 2-3 days.
Cleaning Schedule: Glass every 2-3 days, Skimmer weekly, Rest as needed
Water Changes: 7-8 Gallons every 2-3 weeks.
Make up water: Manually added every 1-2 days (RO/DI)

Parameters:
PH: 8.13
Alk: 3.56
Ca: 420
NO3: 0
NO2: 0
NH3: 0

Equipment:
DIY Calcium Reactor (ARM Media, Mag2 Recirc)
WaveMaster Pro w/ 3 Power Heads
Durso Standpipe
Mag9.5 Sump Return Pump
X10 Control Scheme (Lights: Actinic, Main, Moon)
Euroreef CS6-1 Skimmer
Won Ti 300W Heater

Fish:
1 Naso Tang
4 Green Chromis

Invertebrates:
4 Blue Legged Crabs
4 Scarlet Crabs
5 Emerald Crabs
Sally Lightfoot Crab
5 Trochus Snails
5 Nasarius Snails
4 Bumble Bee Snails
2 Brittle Star
2 Serpent Star

Clams:
2 Derasa (With us ~4.5 years)
4 Maxima

Corals:
Asst. Montiporas
Asst. Acropora (Thanks Shawn!)
Zenia
Mushrooms
Zoanthids
Anchor Coral



Some information I can add that is not on Doug's site are that the tank is the epitome of a nicely finished aquarium. Doug made the stand and hood, and it includes such nice touches as a panel to cover the overflow corner, and wooden corner brackets to cover the corner seam in the glass. The sump is inside the stand, and rests in a glass catch basin. Unlike my tank, Doug's wiring is neat and tidy.