5ft long x 3ft wide x 30 inch tall - only just got it set up after moving house

[Tony B (UK)]

Some more random pictures, hope you enjoy:

[Tony B (UK)]

Some more pictures:

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A few more:











Lastly, the mushrooms; the camera (or me, one of the two) can not capture the colours, these red mushrooms have lovely blue spots on:

[thirschmann]

Tanks looking great... congrats... I shot you an email, sorry I couldn't make it tonight

[Tony B (UK)]

Quick update:

Fish stock list...

Stock list:

10 Bartlets

7 Tuka

8 Chromis

2 clowns

2 Helicoris wrasse

1 Red wrasse

1 Mandarin

1 Foxface

1 Yellow tang

1 purple firefish

2 yellow tail damsels

1 Filament flasher wrasse

1 Blue throat trigger



38 fish in total.

Here's details of the QT set up in my garage, it's very basic indeed, a 100cm x 50cm x 50cm tank and stand.

The QT tank is lit with a single 400w large lumenarc halide, coralvue ballast and blv 14k bulb. The skimmer is an aquamedic TF1000 multi SL. One 300w heater and a dosing pump used to supply calcium chloride and sodium bicarbonate. For circulation I'm using an Hydor koralia thing, like a stream powerhead (the halide is mounted fairly high to reduce heat and also light shock).

Here's a picture of the QT set up:

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[RayAllen]

Beautiful Aquarium. Great Job.

Cheers

[kdblove_99]

Love the rock work

[new_world_disor]

amazing tank. LOVE the anthias. ive always wanted some. but my tank is not really big enough ( setting up a 75 at the mo ) nice to see a fellow UK reefer on here. ( we seem to be few and far beyond ) just wandered if you used online shops for ur fish and corals ? or LFS ?

and the best bit about your tank..... --> its soo busy. it looks like a real reef. i find so many tanks look empty. ur tank is inspirational.


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[Tony B (UK)]

Thank you to every one for their kind words .

Ad, I use retail shops and mail order.

Seeing as your in Wales, I guess you're more interested in mail order. If this is so, I can highly recomend Jason's Aquatics, Fishmansfrags, Reefworks and Rare Ocean.

Acroporahouse also will do mail order corals. I drove up from Essex and met Mark from Acroporahouse in Birmingham to collect my bartletts anthias.

Thanks,

Tony

[reefmutt]

Wow nice set up!
What a difference 6 weeks make in terms of coloration and clarity in the tank.
really nice open spaces- I love to see a reef that is open and uncluttered.
The bartlett's anthias are really nice and I really like the new anthias- are they evensi?
Are you running the system without sand bed? I only see a little in the display and I didn't see any in the system shot..
Nice skimmer btw- I had one on my old tank and loved it (there's a shot of it in my gallery)
I am about to set up a tank almost the same size as well (62'x42'x30 high) and I had a few questions:
What are the dimensions of your overflows and what is the turnover through your system? I ask because I am wondering what the height of the water is at your overflows.
Also, what thickness glass did you use, and where did you brace it and why? ( I assume you built the tank yourself)
I hope I'm not being to inquisitive... I plan to build my tank myself and can't decide on bracing. I have seen some tanks close to this size being built rimless, and I have seem some braced at each seam- top and bottom. I'd love to get away with a rimless tank using 3/4 inch glass, but I am worried about the 30 inch height..
thanks in advance
Oh, and I'd love to see some shots and a description of that 8x4x4!!

[Tony B (UK)]

Hello there reefmutt,

Originally posted by reefmutt


The bartlett's anthias are really nice and I really like the new anthias- are they evensi?

No the purple ones with the yellow stripe are pseudanthias tuka, or common name purple anthias.

Originally posted by reefmutt

Are you running the system without sand bed? I only see a little in the display and I didn't see any in the system shot..

Nearly no sand bed at all, just a thin one in the display. I do not run a DSB in the sump. All that my sump has, is a small amount of live rock and various macro algaes.

Originally posted by reefmutt

I am about to set up a tank almost the same size as well (62'x42'x30 high) and I had a few questions:
What are the dimensions of your overflows and what is the turnover through your system? I ask because I am wondering what the height of the water is at your overflows.

The weir boxes (two of them) are about 7 1/2 inch square and I'm 1.5" durso tubes to feed the sump. Water turnover must be around 7000 litres p/hour over the weirs, including head loss. I am using a sequence 10k (10,000lph) to act as the main return and also supply the skimming with water, my second sump return is an eheim 1262 (about 3000lph). Water sits just over 1/4 inch above the overflows/weirs when the pumps are on.

Originally posted by reefmutt

Also, what thickness glass did you use, and where did you brace it and why? ( I assume you built the tank yourself)

I did not build this tank, but it has bracing all round the top and is built in 12mm glass, with a single base. No bracing on the base joins.

Originally posted by reefmutt

Oh, and I'd love to see some shots and a description of that 8x4x4!!

I'll send you a private message with a link

[reefmutt]

Hey Tony,
Thanks for the info.
Here in Canada, we changed to metric about 20 or so years ago, but I'm old enough to still think in gallons..so 7000lph is aprox. 1800 gph. With a total of 30 inches of overflow and just over 1800gph, you have a water height of 1/4 inch above the overflows..so that's only a tiny 2 gallons to accomodate when the pump stops. I'm planning the same volume for system turnover..
How long have you had that elegance coral (catalaphylia??)

[Tony B (UK)]

Had elegance corals for about 3 months