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10/26/2005, 11:13 AM
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More pictures please.
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10/26/2005, 11:53 AM
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Very nice pics... I would LOVE to speak to him in person... I also love how he covered the PVC... NOTE: I would guess he used this stuff to cover the PVC... Shawn |
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10/26/2005, 01:39 PM
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He has 2 Sequence 5800's for returns. Each one pushes water through 2 1" sea swirls for a total of 4 sea swirls. The SS's are located across the front of the tank. 1 in each front corner and the other 2 are in the middle with 1-2 feet of space between them. In the tank he is only using 4 Streams.  2 6100's and 2 6200's. I must say I was quite suprised that he is not using 4x that much flow. I did look throughout the tank and there was enough flow getting to all areas. The polyps on every coral would move but not violently by any means. The strams are not hidden at all. There are 2 on the far left and 2 on the far right. You can see them in the pictures. When he said he was using streams I asked him if he had them in stream rocks or something because I didn't see them. But they were out in the open the whole time. With a tank like this you are too focused on everything else to notice a couple streams on each side of the tank.
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10/26/2005, 01:41 PM
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Lunchbucket..... Did you read my post ( last page I think ) about hosting the videos..??? It got barried pretty quick with all the responses...... Bob
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10/26/2005, 01:42 PM
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10/26/2005, 01:47 PM
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The owner really loved the Diamond Lumenarc reflectors. He started the tank out with 11 metal halides. After switching to the Lumenarcs he was able to drop that down to 6. He said they were the best investment so far on the tank.
Another thing I thought was pretty cool about this system is that he is running it without a chiller. He has set it up to be very energy efficient. When we were there, his tank room was 81 degrees and his tank was 81.9. He does have 2 chillers for emergency, or to implement in the future if needed. He said he is waiting unitl next summer to see if he is going to need to run the chillers on the system. Yet another interesting thing about this system was that with the flip of a switch, the air from the tank room could be ducted to the rest of the house in the cool months. With the flip of another switch, it could be ducted outside during the warmer months. He also has a few windows in the tank room that he can open and put fans in for more air circulation. |
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10/26/2005, 03:45 PM
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Wow.... Just read the whole thread. I am amazed that he is maintaining, no make that growing out, this system with 6 halides and 4 streams (granted there were a lot of tubes up in that light box too)... Still it seems remarkably efficient.
I wonder how he is handling detrious in the main tank. It seems like he has a thick sand bed and like that back area under the rock would be hard to get cruft washed out of. I was also surprized that he has a tank this big with acrylic. I have found my tank which is 32" deep is very hard to keep clean and very hard to keep from scratching with the mag float (from getting too close to the sand). Has he figured out some good way to clean the sand line, or to remove scratches from the inside of an acrylic tank...
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10/26/2005, 06:09 PM
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His sandbed is no thicker than 1" in any given spot. It is fine sand. I wondered about detritus myself, especially behind the rocks and asked him about it. He said he has been thinking about it himself. For the most part, the activity of the fish and ray keep the detritus stirred up, which feeds the corals and is removed by the filtration. But it is something he is thinking about. So not sure if he will change anything in the future.
Not sure what he does about cleaning the tank but it certainly was spotless when we were there. FWIW, my Tunze magnet (largest size) keeps my tank (1.25" acrylic) free of algae, including coralline. It is strong enough to remove coralline when it is still small. So as long as I clean the front pane at least weekly it stays clean. Unfortunately, when I swap out the inside pad, it takes a couple months before it is "rough" enough to remove coralline again. |
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10/26/2005, 10:06 PM
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I would love to see a stocking list of just all the kinds of fish he has in there. I think I saw a copper banded butterfly in one of the pics. I'd love to know what else is in there (or at least, what he put in there. How would he be able to tell if something died?)
How long has this tank been running?
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10/26/2005, 10:33 PM
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this is JUST from memory
HUGE black tang yellow tang male and female leopard wrasse some other wrasse baby bangaii one or two yellow belly hippos blue spot sting ray orange spot rabbit fish Travis and spazz can you chime in and add to the list. there aren't that many fish in there IMO Lunchbucket
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10/27/2005, 12:43 AM
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I uploaded the pics from my camera to my computer. Obviously they are not professional quality, but they are better than I thought they would turn out. So I have decided to go ahead and share a few. I am still working on the videos. I did find someone who will host them for me.
   
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10/27/2005, 12:47 AM
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Hard to tell if you are looking at someone's tank or at the ocean in this one...
  The black tang may look small in this pic but trust me, it isn't. Compare it to the size of the rabbitfish in the reflection.  
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10/27/2005, 12:52 AM
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  Here you can see the 2 calcium reactors in the back right and the skimmer in the foreground. The skimmer is 12" diameter and around 45" tall, IIRC. It is run by 4 needlewheel pumps. I didn't ask what the pumps were but I am guessing Sedra 9000's.  Sorry this shot is a little blurry but this is one of my favorite corals in his tank. It is an Atlantis Aquarium efflo. It started as a 1/2" frag 2 years ago and has turned into this. 
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10/27/2005, 12:55 AM
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 Here is a close up of one of the pvc structures that he made. If you did not know it was there you would never see it. You can also see the leg to another structure in the back left.  I wish I was a fish in this tank just so I could swim through this valley. 
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10/27/2005, 01:57 AM
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1. Who is it? Whoever it is...he has done a very fine job and obviously knows his products and a thing or two about reef design. Not just some rich guy who plopped down some coin for someone else to throw together. The design is very smart, and prolly uses less electricity & time to maintain than we think due to its smart use of lumenarcs, streams, PVC supports, sump room, etc.
2. For detrious, I would highly suggest investing in some sand sifter gobies. A half dozen of the diamond sand-sifters, or better yet, the yellow-headed sand sifters (they school and clean sand in packs if you have the space and numbers) would keep his sand perfectly clean and require very little effort...which on a tank this size is key. |
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10/27/2005, 02:14 AM
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10/27/2005, 02:45 AM
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Amazing. I don't think a large private aquarium with massive funding could do better.
Gives me some great ideas too. I'd love that PVC rack idea, and I'd really like to know more about how it was done. I'd like to incorporate something like that (on a MUCH smaller scale) into my new 75. BTW: Am I the only one that thinks that guy looks a lot like Anthony Calfo? I know it's not, but they look a lot alike. |
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) and the rest is done by Tunzes i believe
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