1800 stocked...finally

[eljefe3]

After months of red tape, my Red Sea fish have arrived.

10 semivilartus butterfly fish
4 purple tangs
2 asfur angels
2 maculosus angels
2 racoon butterfly fish
2 sohal tangs
2 unicorn tangs
2 naso tangs
2 broomtail wrasses
2 cigar wrasses
1 miniatus grouper
1 niger trigger ( green color)

For all tang police out there , they are all doing great and the purples are schooling. Also the butterfly fish school quite often.

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[Tat2dBrownDude]

Awesome Tank

[Aged Salt]

Very impressive. Bob

[lilbuddy]

:thumbsup: great job

[chjay00]

10 semiviilartus butterflies:eek1: I having trouble finding one:mad: But awesome fishes in an awesome tank.

[BigDaddy]

Can you take a picture w/ something next to the tank for reference? I know that tank is much much bigger than it looks.

[greg s]

wow i had to check you gallery to get a size referance
man thats just one awsome tank!! good job

[Fish-o-holic]

Simply amazing... :thumbsup:

[jerseyreefer]

:eek2: Wow! Sweet tank! :eek1:

[eljefe3]

Thaks everyone. I've still got some clown triggers and various other cool fish to put in, so once those come I'll try to post some better pics.

[chjay00]

eljefe3
You know what, I think this is the best FO tank i have seen. I keep on coming back to this thread and look at these pictures. It is so clean. You don't see any overflow box, wires, power heads, and etc. It seem you have put a lot of thought into this tank. If I ever go to Thailand I have to see this tank in person.
Good Job.

[JNG567]

dream

[SamsonNY]

Outstanding! Excellent Work! :cool:

[psycho_clown]

great looking tank great job

[eljefe3]

Here's a few more pics http://phuket-phuket.com/stocked

[BigDaddy]

Quite amazing!

[Nagel]

Sweet looking tank. Stop saying you ain't loaded (in your gallery). I have a 300, and it cost a god-awful amount, this thing is like... gigantic. BTW, you dont really get the size of it till you see people next to it in your gallery... Simply amazing....

[Mrbeachbum2]

May i ask what you have invested in the stand,tank and conopy, and what you spend in all those fish?????

[lilclownfish]

Wow!! Nice tank, just a question for you, what lighting do you have on the tank??

[Holyreefer]

eljefe3,
Now you can change you sig, you have finally stocked it!

[Nausicaa]

WOW!!! Love'n it!:eek1:

[KENE]

Along for the ride!!

[RedEyeReef]

WOW... WOW! and I thought my 360 was big?

Very Impressive

[jackson6745]

Do you have any full tank shots with a person in it to give scale? In the first pic the only thing to give it scale is the pringles chip container....and it looks pretty small next to that behemoth:D

[Nagel]

Jackson

Look in his gallery, theres a pic with not one, but TWO guys in it!

[jackson6745]

Originally posted by Nagel
Jackson

Look in his gallery, theres a pic with not one, but TWO guys in it!

Thanks
OMG:eek2: It's Huge

[capt. insano]

eljefe

do you have a diagram or pictures of your filtration and/or plumbing?

[jackson6745]

I can't believe you have gay Al as your avatar
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[DrHarryLopez]

It is a cool Avatar :)

[capt. insano]

you guys like that? I have a crappy pic of Capt. Insano from "The Waterboy", but can't find a good one. Big Gay Al is one of the best characters on South Park

[eljefe3]

>>do you have a diagram or pictures of your filtration and/or plumbing?

There are some pics in the thread about showing your equipment in this ( large tank) forum.

[MERCEDES]

Gorgeous tank! We were in Thailand in December and spent a week in Phuket. It is so beautiful that we have forgotten about Hawaii and plan to return to Phuket again this December. It must feel nice to increase your tank ten times the size you had before.:D Have you caught any of the fish or corals yourself, there are so many all around Phuket we didn't want to go home. My husband would have a heart attack if I told him I wanted a 1800gallon tank instead of the 500 we have agreed on. I would be able to swim with the fish in your tank. What are you doing to clean it? You mentioned you were getting triggers so I am assuming you won't have the usual clean up crew since they will be eaten.:eek1: :beer: I can't wait to see it fully stocked please keep posting pictures. BTW are you in southern Phuket ?

[DaveJohnson]

Sawasdee Krap!

Wow that's a fantastic tank! My wife is in Bangkok right now and visiting her family near Surin and Ubon. A few years ago we were on Koh Samui for a week. Are you near that area?

We have a house and land near Surin that we are planning on moving to in a few years and I'd LOVE to meet the person who built your tank and get an estimate for a (smaller that 1800 though) system like that.

Cheers,
Dave Johnson

[nanoman123]

i hate u ur tank is too good.............


lol jk jk


IM JEALOUS..........

[eljefe3]

Mercedes and Dave,

If you're ever comingto Phuket drop me a line. Dave unfortunately the company that made the tank is in Australia, not Thailand. Phuket is quite a distance from Koh Samui, but is similar in that it's a tourist destination and a beautiful island.

[MERCEDES]

My husband and I will take you up on that offer in December:D We can have dinner at Mimi's:cool:

[ri]

Nice setup. Does not overcrowded at all.

ri

[jhaake]

I'm jealous, absolutely beutiful!

[Mrbeachbum2]

What did the tank cost you Really amazing

[billwynne]

exquisite, and I salute your blowing off the tang police.

[capt. insano]

eljefe,

how are the new fish doing?

[eljefe3]

Fish are doing great thanks. Love the golden butterflys as well as all the others. Now I'm just waiting on 1 more shipment and stocking will be complete.

[chjay00]

eljefe3,
I planning to get some golden butterflies, what do you feed them. I had one before, but was unsucessful. You think I have to get more than one? I was think at least 3 for my 180.

[eljefe3]

The Golden butterflies I have eat whatever I put in. Squid, shrip, mussels, flake food. They enjoy it all and always want more. I think with most butterfly fish that having more than 1 is better than having the fish solo.

[speckled trout]

They look pretty good.

[sumpinhabitant]

looks great :)

[trueblackpercula]

that is buy far the best tank ive seen in a long time wow very well done.

[spsfreak]

got to be the nicest FO tank I've seen!
Good job

[marineer]

sweet!

[heuerfan]

Simply amazing, i bet all the arowana lovers in Thailand wish they had your tank! :P LOL!

Also love your fish selections, ashfurs, mac's and semis, 3 of my favorites!

Keep the pics coming!

[fish are freinds]

do anybody knowmuch about arowanas, i need advice :O something may be wrong with my australian

[BarryG]

Awesome Tank....:thumbsup:

[hmoore]

OK, you have too many tangs. I'm going to have to ask that you turn your tank over to the authorities. ;o)~

Beautiful tank!

[eljefe3]

OK, you have too many tangs. I'm going to have to ask that you turn your tank over to the authorities. ;o)~

lol.....

[eljefe3]

>>OK, you have too many tangs. I'm going to have to ask that you turn your tank over to the authorities. ;o)~

lol.....

[sumpinhabitant]

Looks great :)

[this_reefer]

Originally posted by eljefe3
>>OK, you have too many tangs. I'm going to have to ask that you turn your tank over to the authorities. ;o)~

lol.....


And that would be me. Please hand (ship) over you entire tank to texas, usa.

:) ;)



Nice huge tank!!!! love it...I think this is the first time I've seen such a large tank in a private home!!! It makes mine look more like a holding bucket for your fish!!!!

[pufferfreak]

its koool, but would be so much better with LR and corals.......you could have made your own LR for .09 per pound at $180 for like 2000 lbs of rock.......should have done it man

[jhaake]

Eljefe, have you gotten in the clown triggers and other fish? Any pics?

Any way you could get a harlequin tuskfish and that I could live vicariously through you?

[eljefe3]

>>have you gotten in the clown triggers and other fish? Any pics?

Supposed to be arriving this week, but I heard that last week , so who knows.
I do want a couple of tusks, but there is supposedly a compatibility problem with the two broom wrasses already in.

[drac]

WHAT IS TH THICKNESS OF THE ACRYLIC PLS

[eljefe3]

>>WHAT IS TH THICKNESS OF THE ACRYLIC PLS

1.5 inches.

[Dubbin1]

OK we need updates and more pictures of this great tank.

[sixxer]

Any close up shots of the fish???

Updates???????

[Julio]

what are the tank dimensions?

[invincible569]

Originally posted by Dubbin1
OK we need updates and more pictures of this great tank.

hope he replies. if I remember correctly, he added some white tip sharks and got pretty upset at the remarks people were making. :)

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by Julio
what are the tank dimensions?
Freaking HUGE

[Julio]

lol

[pufferfreak]

What are the diminstions of that tank?

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by pufferfreak
What are the diminstions of that tank?
Whats a "diminstions" ;) www.iespell.com ;)

[derrikd]

next time im in thiland im comming to come look at it

[mattsilvester]

I can't see the pics :-(

Is there any chance you could email them to me :-) at

mattsilvester@eircom.net

I'd really appreciate it.
Where abouts are you in "southern thailand"? I'm in ko-toa about twice a year, usually....... haven't been on the andaman side much though, but went diving in phi phi ...... excellent, going to similian next time.

cheers,
Matt

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by mattsilvester
I can't see the pics :-(

Is there any chance you could email them to me :-)
Look in his gallery

[mattsilvester]

I want to see the pics with the fish. The pics in the first post of this thread are just little white boxes with a red X for me.......... I wanna see the livestock

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by mattsilvester
I want to see the pics with the fish. The pics in the first post of this thread are just little white boxes with a red X for me.......... I wanna see the livestock
I dont know why you are getting the red X. The pictures show up just fine for me. Must have something setup wrong in your browser.

[mattsilvester]

any ideas wha might be set wrong? I get that allot - maybe 1 in 10 posts I view.

[edgerat]

I just heard about the Tidal Waves in Phuket.... I hope that Eljefe is doing ok.....If I remember right his house is up on a hill so I hope that he made it through and the tank survived the 8.9 quake..... :(

[MERCEDES]

I just saw him a few days ago and his home is close to the beach I truly hope they are ok. I cannot get thru but hopefully his family is safe. We all need to keep them in our thoughts and prayers that they are safe. There is fear another tidal wave may hit Phuket again. The Phuket Gazette is the local paper and can be reached by this link http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?ref=2004122711255
Cross your fingers that the worst is over, this is just unfathomable to imagine that this could happen.

[Dubbin1]

Originally posted by MERCEDES
I just saw him a few days ago and his home is close to the beach I truly hope they are ok. I cannot get thru but hopefully his family is safe. We all need to keep them in our thoughts and prayers that they are safe. There is fear another tidal wave may hit Phuket again. The Phuket Gazette is the local paper and can be reached by this link http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?ref=2004122711255
Cross your fingers that the worst is over, this is just unfathomable to imagine that this could happen.
Please keep us posted.

[capt. insano]

man, hopefully he checks in soon. We just heard in the lounge from Ilango, a guy from Sri Lanka, and thankfully, he is ok. After viewing the footage from Thailand, I'm worried about Eljefe

[MERCEDES]

He is okay, it was worse on other areas of Phuket.

[chask]

eljefe3,

I just looked at this for the first time this AM. Then I noticed you were from Thailand and then the mention of Phuket that has been in the news so much the last couple of days. Glad to hear from Mercedes that all is okay. Well, after what happened just to be alive is great.

Anyway, back to fish stuff.
I know you must have a lot to do but when you get time would you please post the dimensions of that tank or PM me with them? I am planning for a big one but your tank is just enormous. Is it hard to take care of - reach to the bottom? It doesn't look like you went the DSB route, maybe an inch of sand if that.

Nice tank. Very nice tank.

Mercedes,

Sounds like you are still there. Hope you got through this with minimum stress too. Thanks for keeping us updated.

To both of you:
Hope you and yours and all your friends are okay and fair well during this difficult time. I cannot imagine what this must be like nor how we could help. We get tornados here and often see pretty severe devastation but nothing on the scale (so widespread) of what just happened over there. Is there anything you need, anything we can do?

Thanks
Charles

[MERCEDES]

Charles I am fortunate enough to have left a couple days before the tsunami hit. It was so relieving to hear from eljefe3 right away that they were safe. The tank is beautiful the dimensions are 16feet long 4 feet high and 4 feet wide. He does not check the site frequently so it may be some time before he posts but he did say they were safe and escaped major damage.

[chask]

Thanks Mercedes.

I figured it might be quite a while before he would post again. I am especially glad to hear that his absence from RC is due to his lack of watching it rather than distraction due the current catastrophe over there.

I guess you saw his tank. Did he have very much sand in the bottom? There appeared to be some but it looked like only an inch or so, maybe just enough to cover the bottom. Are you aware of any maintenance issues (difficulty dealing with the extra height)? The two guys in the tank appear to be much shorter than me. 4' must be a tough reach for them but then again they are small enough to get in the tank. I am not sure I could do that without hitting stuff in the tank (bull in a china closet thing - 6'2"+ and my shoulders almost fill a 3'0" door way).

I am planning a 12 x 4.5 x ?? tank. Right now the ?? height is going to be about 3' (my reach + 4-6" DSB). I am wondering about going above my arm's reach. I think it would help with aquascaping on a tank this long to have a little more height but there is the maintenance issue. I want to do a DSB, various corals, etc., but the "being able to reach anything on the bottom" deal looms heavily in the back of my mind as the tank height goes above 30-32" (my reasonably comfortable reach with clenched fingertips). I would like to go about 42" (or the 40-44 range) but this reach issue is bugging me. 4' would really give me something to work with but then I am definitely diving for the bottom. FWIW, I have room to go to 5.5-6' maximum.

What a beautiful tank eljefe3 has. I can certainly see the scale issues of the height with the length and depth on his tank. Just incredible. When I first saw the posts I thought what a nice 180 gallon tank figuring that the 1800 heading was a typo. Then I saw the post about 2 guys standing in it and went to the gallery to see. I remember my first thought was either they are midgets or that is one heck of a tank. With the dimensions from you I see it is the latter though perhaps even bigger than I had thought. It must be magnificent in person. The size of the specimens he put in are also impressive. Kind of helped with the illusion of its true size. BTW, 16x4x4 calculates to a little over 1900 gallon on the exterior dimensions. Even with 1.5" acrylic it must be bigger than 1800.

Glad to hear you were not part of the disaster. I am a Thai food fanatic and frequent several of the really good restaurants we are blessed with here. Have gotten to know the owners pretty well. I have not been since I heard about this because of end of the year stuff and Christmas but I know they all have family still there. I believe the owners of one place are related to the people who cook or cooked for the royal family. They might know the grandson who was killed. What a tragedy, for everyone involved.

What I have heard recently and especially what you wrote about Phuket makes me want to go. Must be very beautiful. Nature will fix that part. Hopefully the human side of it will not be any more painful than it already has been.

Thanks
Charles

[MERCEDES]

I am planning a 12 x 4.5 x ?? tank. Right now the ?? height is going to be about 3' (my reach + 4-6" DSB). I am wondering about going above my arm's reach. I think it would help with aquascaping on a tank this long to have a little more height but there is the maintenance issue. I want to do a DSB, various corals, etc., but the "being able to reach anything on the bottom" deal looms heavily in the back of my mind as the tank height goes above 30-32" (my reasonably comfortable reach with clenched fingertips). I would like to go about 42" (or the 40-44 range) but this reach issue is bugging me. 4' would really give me something to work with but then I am definitely diving for the bottom. FWIW, I have room to go to 5.5-6' maximum.Did he have very much sand in the bottom? There appeared to be some but it looked like only an inch or so, maybe just enough to cover the bottom. Are you aware of any maintenance issues (difficulty dealing with the extra height)?What I have heard recently and especially what you wrote about Phuket makes me want to go. Must be very beautiful.


Phuket is stunningly beautiful as are the people and of course the food. His tank is a sight to behold and he does have very little sand in it. He puts rubber waders on to get to things he can't reach. We are planning on building a tank that will be roughly 500 gallons maybe a bit more depending on the height. My husband is thinking to do 36 inch height instead of 30 so that he will for sure have 30 inches of water area to aquascape in as we will have a DSB. You are right about the 4 feet looking nice to aquascape with but definitely not reachable unless you are Yao Ming.

[chask]

Mercedes,

Nice to know about the 36" with the DSB and wish you all the luck with it. Was kind of my idea too but it still isn't much help on a 40-44 or 48" tall tank. I wish I could find a few people who have tried a tank that tall.

Don't know if I can put on some waders and get in the tank. Be afraid of crushing something.

I hope eljefe3 gets back on RC with a few posts of his tank. It will be nice to see it grow out a little. :) It looks sooo nice now but they always do look even better after a little time to 'fill in'.

Thanks
Charles

[sixxer]

Chask, I will let you know as I will be going 40+ deep on my tank

[majesticangelfish]

CRIKEY! :eek2: :thumbsup:

[chask]

Thanks sixxer. Been watching your thread.

Charles

[Frisco]

Glad to hear that he and his family survived ok :)

[asnatlas]

Any updates ?? All your pics are missing...

[TheCoralNabber]

ditto, the pics in his gallery don't show too much at all, and that one link is dead. Wonder how all the fish are doing now as well.