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01-11-2007, 01:14 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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|  Now That's a Fishtank!
I only wish I had a house big enough to support this 2,500 gallon tank that Tangster set up at Richmond Aquarium in Virginia when I was overseas last week. 
Last edited by amcarrig : 01-11-2007 at 05:17 PM.
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01-11-2007, 01:55 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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Sweet!!!
See if you can get him to post the specs. 
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01-11-2007, 02:40 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Its 20x5x6 ft in size I have a 250 gall fuge and a 400 gal sump. A ETSS dual tower commercial pro skimmer and a 15,000gph hr pool pump for the internal recirculating plumbed in on 2. 3 inch bulkheads on the bottom and center of each end panel to the suction inlet of the pump you may be able to see the 1.5 inch drops from the 3 inch main feed rom pump. I put 2 drops behind each overflow box and then 4 1.5 inch outlet Then a 8,000 gph 2hp main pump fed overhead on 2in main lateral to the 6 tee that drop in along the entire length of the tank you maybe can see them also ? I have a 3,000 1.5 hp pump for the skimmer.. that sets up beside the close end of the tank.. All the black wood you see will be replaced as I progress along with the set up.
I'm enclosing the entire top and adding 1,500 CFM fans and vented outside in the summer /winter via a temperature/moisture control sensors that control and run elect driven dampers and exhaust fans and a 5 hp chiller is going up on the building roof next to the building A/C condensers.. I'll be changing out the panel box to 400 amps as my coral aquaculture center currently shares the breaker box. And It will have 10 1,000 watt M/H and 10 400 watts also.. But until I can upgrade the service the 12 250 M/H will have to suffice.. It will be another yr before its completely set up..
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Last edited by amcarrig : 01-11-2007 at 05:21 PM.
Reason: Fixed spelling & punctuation :)
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01-11-2007, 02:50 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 30
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 holy smoke what a sic tank  _________ 4x24w T5ho 135ltr/35gal marine cube 15kg of liverock 2 yellowtail damsels.. more to come  Got Questions? Need Answers?
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01-11-2007, 02:55 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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You da Man Tangster! Bet that was cool setting something up like that. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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01-11-2007, 02:58 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Carpentersville, IL Age: 52
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300 Reef; 325LR, 1/2" sand bed in tank, 3" sand bed in 215 gal sump/refugium and Berliner PowerPro SS twin becket skimmer. 210 Reef; with 225 lbs of LR, 300 lb DSB, Large W/D and Jebo 520 skimmer modified to accept a becket. 90 RR FOWLR; tied into the 300's sump with a closed loop for extra circulation. 55 hospital. | |
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01-11-2007, 03:13 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Dec 2006
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WOW! I bet there are some pretty impressive fish in there! | |
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01-11-2007, 04:20 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
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That should be illegal!!! NOT fair to be able to have a tank that complex and large!
And I was just getting ready to go scuba diving in my 125 gallon reef tank thinking it was plenty big enough...until you proved me wrong!(hahaha)
Nice tank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!wishf ul thinking in this house on my budget!
I think I need to take a trip to the Mystic Sea Aquarium again...    _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well>
"IF THE PHONE DOESN'T RING...IT'S ME"  jb  | |
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01-11-2007, 11:17 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Simply.........AMAZING! | |
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01-11-2007, 11:34 PM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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....I don't even have the words! ...............I am word-less! .................................................. ..................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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