Show off your large reef tank FTS

paytonv · #1 10/16/2007, 08:56 AM

Show em if you got em

paytonv · #2 10/16/2007, 05:53 PM

...anyone?

Thinslis · #3 10/16/2007, 06:30 PM

The whole forum is filled with build threads, just look through the threads. It will be more interesting to see the whole process of their builds then just the finished product.

JMHO

paytonv · #4 10/17/2007, 07:12 AM

That's the whole point...the finished product....

Thinslis · #5 10/17/2007, 08:19 AM

Is any tank ever truley finished? =)

SPSFiend · #6 10/18/2007, 09:37 PM

My wife and I just bought a new home and I am looking at starting my next in wall tank project.

I know there are tons of pictures all over threads but many of them are 57 thousand pages long and/or split into different threads

It would be great to flip through a thread with just finished tanks to get ideas on what you like/dislike and then do further research into those tanks.

So i guess I will start things off with my current tank. It is a 180g display with a 60 gal sump.

Cheers!

paytonv · #7 10/19/2007, 08:07 AM

Thanks SPSFiend. I agree with you..it's nice to go through threads with just full tank shots to get a broad idea.

dca22anderson · #8 10/20/2007, 02:06 AM

We have a big one well under way. 750 gal fish and softies.

MarkusII · #9 10/20/2007, 05:47 AM

Hello,

here is mine - 253g

here you can read more:
my 253g tank

regards

Markus

pwhitby · #10 10/20/2007, 12:13 PM

these are a few of mine:
600g

and about 8 months ago, with frags on the rocks.

Paul.

Felix1021 · #11 10/20/2007, 10:10 PM

that last one just amazing stuff...WOW

SunnyX · #12 10/21/2007, 10:49 AM

225gl IN-Wall Starfire
July 2006 Tank of the Month

steve the plumb · #13 10/21/2007, 11:26 AM

Thinslis" Is any tank ever truley finished? " (so true)
Felix1021"that last one just amazing stuff...WOW" (Thats why he has the tank of the month)

MarkusII · #14 10/23/2007, 12:21 AM

Hello,

there is another - elder - thread running on the same topic as well:

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...readid=1082751

and my last shot of my tank at "sunrise" - lights just going on

regards

Markus

thor32766 · #15 10/23/2007, 08:52 AM

wow you guys have some truly amazing tanks!

steve the plumb · #16 10/23/2007, 10:03 AM

Very nice in deed

stlouisguy · #17 10/23/2007, 08:58 PM

mile sq. reefer · #18 10/23/2007, 09:59 PM

Markus II, Great job. Refreshing to see a beautiful reef that contains mostly soft corals. Very natural looking.

MarkusII · #19 10/24/2007, 12:58 AM

Hello,

thanks...

by the way:
Hello,

by the way - this is "my" other tank. A 660g oval acrylic tank which I take care for since a little more than a year. Was in no good shape when I took over. The other problem were the coral eating angelfishes which are in the tank as well. But after one year I had made some progress - found enough big corals for the tank, which also started to grow and survive. And the Pomacantus imperator had stopped eating the most corals. Unfortunately the instalation was wrongly done by the guy who built up the system and we had a salinity crash in July - 17 fishes and all corals died in the accident. Thereafter I was allowed to improve the technical set up and now it´s going up again. But it is difficult to get such a big tank filled with (big) corals.
A pic as it looked before the crash.

...its the tank in the bar lobby of the hotel Alpenrose in Maurach/Achensee in Austria (www.alpenrose.at)

regards

Markus

steve the plumb · #20 10/24/2007, 09:46 AM

I like the aqua scape the tank doesn't look very big in the picture but 600 gal,very nice

MarkusII · #21 10/24/2007, 11:26 AM

Hello Steve,

the tank is oval 2m long, up to 1,5m wide in the middle and 90cm high.
Well in the picture it may not look to big. The aqua scape was allready installed when I took over the care of the tank...
But it gives the tank together with the oval shape a very wide and large image...
I attach another picture where you can see the size - I was in there to do some repair of the aqua scape when I took over the care.

and the soft coral in the left lower corner of the tank in the picture of the posting above is about 30cm in diameter.

regards

Markus

steve the plumb · #22 10/24/2007, 11:55 AM

Looks like you had to get your feet wet

its a good thing you are not a large heavy set guy or you wouldn't fit in the tank

MarkusII · #23 10/24/2007, 12:05 PM

Hello Steve,

oh yesssss

and it was complicated to do the work at the bottom of the tank with the updrift of the saltwater

well at least the temperature of the water was fine.

regards

Markus

steve the plumb · #24 10/24/2007, 12:23 PM

Next time you want to take a saltwater bath you know where to go

MarkusII · #25 10/27/2007, 03:00 AM

Steve,

I hope I do not have to go into this tank any more like this.....

But may be I am taking over care of another tank....

regards

Markus