All I could say is WOW!

[crappyballer]

here is a little bit more info on that monster David Saxby, Forum, Ron Hessing.

Great reef tanks: David Saxby | Practical Fishkeeping magazine

[Tangster]

Its 2000 gal. he set it up in 98 or 99 . He runs a company parafish somthing. Does pretty much what we do on this side of the pond. He has a web sire at one time not sure if its still up or not ?

[geekdafied]

Owners Name: David Saxby
Location: London, England
Year the tank was set up: Set-up in 1995, Redone Set-up in 2003
Size and Volume of the Tank: J-Shaped - 3 feet (1m) x 8 feet (2.7m) x 6 feet (2m) and 47 inches (117cm) high - approximately 1700 US Gallons
Sump Size: 1500 US Gallons
Pounds of Live Rock: 2000 Pounds
Sand Type/Depth: ROWAlith/4 inches (20 cm)
Type of Biological Filtration: Berlin

Main system pumps: Eight 3200 GPH circulation pumps
Additional pumps: An additional 3000 GPH for filtration, and direction of flow is alternated with electronic ball valves - Total water movement per hour is approximately 15,000 gallons.
Reactors: Deltec Fluidized Bed Calcium Reactor; Deltec Calcium Hydroxide Stirrer
Protein Skimmers: Two Deltec (Self-cleaning) and one Sanders Helgaland
Monitoring Equipment: IKS Computer
Wavemakers: Three IKS pumps controlled by the IKS computer
Doser: Deltec Peristaltic Dosing Pump
Chillers: Two outdoor chillers and two under the courtyard floor, and one large Deltec Eco Cooler (Swamp cooler)
Refugium: Small 40 gallon tank, one inch of sugar sand and Caulerpa
Denitrator: None
Trickle Filter: Used to speed up the nitrification cycle

Lamps: 5000 watts - Three 1000W 10 K MH, one 1000W 20K MH, one double 400W MH containing one 5K and one 20K lamp.
Photoperiod: 1000W lamps on for eight hours, and 400W lamps on for ten hours - all lamps replaced every nine months - lamps are 24 inches (60cm) above water surface

Water Temperature: 76 - 78°F
Specific Gravity: 1.026
PH: 8.1 - 8.4
Calcium: 470 - 480 ppm
Redox: 450
Alkalinity: 7.8 dKH
Nitrate: 5 - 10 ppm
Nitrite: 0.02 ppm
Ozone: Infrequently used
Phosphate: Below 0.015 ppm - uses two large swimming pool sand filters and places a large quantity of ROWAphos between sand layers in each filter. Each filter is serviced as needed by testing its effluent.
Additives: None
Water Changes: 10% once per month
RO/DI water: RO - yes, DI - no
Brand of Salt Mix: Reef Crystals

[Tangster]

LOL hhahah Dang Geek a friend of our in Irleand was tge diver in that system as I recall ? A guy named Collen hell of a nice guy the helped the Saxby guy lay it out and get it going.. I just recall them getting me in on the Pumps and wiring and how much flow can this do and such But that was way long ago like about 10 Yrs I guess now ? Dang buddy I'd not want to try and kep anything from you are you aa Cop LOL FBI CIA (: Oh and I was told Collen just did an artical for some Magazine Tropical Fish hobbyiest.. Amcarrig will send him this link he'll get a kick out of it.. I had forgotten all about that tank

[baugherb]

Thats freakin awesome....

[amcarrig]

If it's the tank Tangster and I are thinking about, the name of the person who helped him set it up is Colin Dunlop (aka Octomonkey on many forums and who can be found on TONMO.com: The Octopus News Magazine Online). As has been mentioned, Colin just wrote an article for Tropical Fish Hobbiest magazine (I think) on breeding betta fish.

[geekdafied]

Originally Posted by Tangster

LOL hhahah Dang Geek a friend of our in Irleand was tge diver in that system as I recall ? A guy named Collen hell of a nice guy the helped the Saxby guy lay it out and get it going.. I just recall them getting me in on the Pumps and wiring and how much flow can this do and such But that was way long ago like about 10 Yrs I guess now ? Dang buddy I'd not want to try and kep anything from you are you aa Cop LOL FBI CIA (: Oh and I was told Collen just did an artical for some Magazine Tropical Fish hobbyiest.. Amcarrig will send him this link he'll get a kick out of it.. I had forgotten all about that tank

LMAO, alot of people was asking what it was, and I was looking for the info and posted it, no harm no foul

LMAO@CIA
Dont be telling people what my day job is

[geekdafied]

Well according to this, its 1200g, but who knows, haha

Write Up

[Matt Rogers]

Is anyone else curious about his Deltec Eco Cooler?
I've never seen those before. The stats are impressive.. (it only uses around 38 watts!) I think I need to add that to the 3reef Radar asap.

[Tangster]

Originally Posted by Matt Rogers

Is anyone else curious about his Deltec Eco Cooler?
I've never seen those before. The stats are impressive.. (it only uses around 38 watts!) I think I need to add that to the 3reef Radar asap.

No not yet But I /we where asked to try and come up with a effecient chiller for a large system. The Fish &aquarium industry is sucking hind teat here. If youy took the average aquarium chiller and had to evalurate the effeciency as the EPA requires a Central A/C in SEER units then they would average 6 maybe 7 on the bettwr ones. I just placed a order for the Chiller barrel to connect to aq 1.5 ton Heat Pump.. (: 14 seer and will cool and heat the water (: at a fraction of the cost a off the shelf chiller.. I installed a few at a local school and it cut them way down on Cost of operation.