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08/15/2005, 12:39 PM
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Man you have3 really thought this thur. looking really good from this end ...wel done love the rock work . i wount change it any
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08/15/2005, 01:23 PM
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Reefboy,
Great project, I had nearly forgot about this thread. Hope you don't mind but I may be grabbing a couple of ideas from your set up to solve a couple problems I forsee having. Anyway I don't know if I skimmed over the answer earlier, but it looks as though your home is constructed silimarly to mine.... What if anything did you do to support the floor to hold the excessive weight? I've got a couple ideas going for my set up, but was currious what you did... I see that you have 2x10s and the footer right there, but how did it run with the tank, perpendicular? Or did the tank wind up right on top of it? And lastly was it enough or did you add extra support?
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08/15/2005, 02:00 PM
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Thanks for the comments all.
Tang_man, you can see more info on the cermanic rock here www.captiveoceans.com. Swillydiver, I did try to follow the "golden rectangle" when designing the tank with a nearly 2:1 ratio. I also have 3 architectural viewing panes from the front and structure the rock into 3 distinct areas of interest (when viewed from the front). I also did try to skew the main focal (the pillars) to the right a bit, but I guess it's not apparent  If you look at the tank the overflow takes up 8" of room on the right - so the overall rock structure is already skewed to the left when viewing the whole tank. I may move the pillars over just a bit to break the symmetry. Thanks for the feedback.Hop, I didn't do anything to improve the foundation under the tank. I was very lucky in that the area I picked was extremely well supported. The cement footer runs parallel and directly under the tank and the 2x10 joists radiate out perendicular and half of them are doubled or tripled up. I had originally planned on framing out the tank under the house and supporting it with pier blocks - but I didn't have to. Art
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08/15/2005, 02:19 PM
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reefboy,
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I can only find some pics and pricing on the site. No description as to it's porosity and/or longterm reviews.... What sizes did you purchase?
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08/15/2005, 10:23 PM
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08/16/2005, 02:27 AM
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Seems you got it all figured out Reefboy1, its nice to know that you got the dynamics of aquascaping right. With your setup, depth and texture will be very refreshing. Excellent work!
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08/16/2005, 09:32 AM
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They do sell it in the states, but as I purchased mine locally I don't know the shipping cost.
My personal opinion (after seeing these things in person) is that they are definitely worth the additional cost over live rock if you are trying to get a specific look or focal point in your tank. I particularly like the square backwall pieces for a rectangular tank.
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08/17/2005, 09:44 AM
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One cool thing I just noticed last night while sitting in my normal spot at the dinner table was that from that angle the backdrop for my new tank is my existing 215gal mixed reef. The water is now so clear that the 215gal almost looks like it's part of the 375gal tank. It really adds depth (if you use your imagination just a bit).
I took a couple of pics although they really don't show how nice they look:   When designing this tank, one of the main considerations was the view from the dinner table (my family eats dinner together everday) - but this is really a nice added bonus Art
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08/19/2005, 01:22 AM
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Art that looks very cool, congrats on a great job well done, Jeff
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08/22/2005, 10:48 AM
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Took a pic of the sump this weekend - it still needs a bit of cleaning up.
You can see the big Grotech 300 skimmer behind the undersized Zeovit reactor. On the wall behind them is the Schuran JetStream 1 Calc Reactor and above them is the Neptune Aquacontroller II.  I also put a few more SPS frags in a few days ago and they seem to be doing well. I'll probably add the first fish this week... Art
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08/22/2005, 11:56 AM
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None right now. But I'm looking at a couple of Crosshatched Triggers as the first ones...
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