500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL !

[hahnmeister]

How about a 'whole tank pic'... and some of the 'behind the scenes'? We equipment junkies need our fix too...lol.

 

[jnarowe]

what he wrote!

 

[Sparkss]

hehehehe, I never said I was asking for more pictures, only that I was surprised that no one else had ... which I guess was a passive-aggressive way of asking for more pictures

 

[Sanjay]

Ok, you picture junkies. Here are a few for you entertainment.

A week ago, John, Craig, Rik, and Chris from the DC area came to visit. Chris took several pictures, some of them are shown below. All credit for these pics goes to Chris.

Of course they came bearing gifts . The A. blochii that I posted earlier was one of them, and a bunch of nice frags.


Here is John adding the gifts to my overflow box for acclimatization.

As you can see that guys are truly giants in the hobby. Make me feel small.

Some back room shots

sanjay.

 

[Sanjay]

Here are some of Chris's pictures of my tank.

Right Hand side - see all the goodies floating in background

Left hand side:

Enjoy,

sanjay.

 

[radone]

Nice, love the aquascaping

 

[jnarowe]

Don't feel bad, everyone knows you're running the show! Tank looks great. Are you having good luck with the Vortech?

 

[Sanjay]

Both those vortech's are running fine for me. The only issue I had was them not holding on firmly to the 3/4" glass. This was resolved with some replacement magnets and they have worked great since.

I like them.

sanjay.

 

[jnarowe]

"replacement" magnets? How are they different? Eco-Tech recently posted in response to someone saying that the new ones are stronger, that they are the same. What do you think?

 

[Sanjay]

I don't know, I am just telling you what I had to do. Oh.. I also had to replacee the rubber disc that goes inside the tank with a hard disc that seems to fit inside the wet end. May be they found that do this would be good enough since it did reduce the overall thickness that the magnets had to penetrate and hence stornger magnets are no longer needed.

It would be best to ask Tim at ecotech, I don't want to be the source for any misinformation.

sanjay.

 

[Sanjay]

While these pics are not really my tank, but since they are the parents of my "frags", I guess I can post them here.

Here are some pics of the penn state tank, taken by Chris.

sanjay.

 

[jnarowe]

tank looks great but that cabinet is disturbing.

 

[akbuuur]

WOW
how big is that 'parent' tank?

 

[clekchau]

that tank is amazing

 

[scaryperson27]

I'm speechless. That looks like one of those Italian tanks or maybe better. Is there any more info somewhere so can read up on that tank?

 

[keeperofthefish]

I had an opportunity to see the Penn State reef (was at a conference at Penn State) and it is absolutely incredible. Best captive reef I've ever seen. I'm sure Sanjay's new reef will match someday. The amazing thing about the Penn State reef is that it's smack in the middle of the student union! Any other school, someone would have ruined it somehow. But Penn State has real school pride and they take care of and treasure things like this. Kudos to all involved.

 

[hahnmeister]

Thats what I was thinking too... I know if that tank was somewhere at UW-Milwaukee or Madison that some skateboarder would have already smacked into it or tagged it by now. It seems like all the idiots are applying to UW system universities these days... must be the party reputation. It kind of sucks, because there are a good number or serious students, but in the past 5 years the average has gone down 100%.

Penn State must be the place to be for 'no idiots'... wish I would have gone there.

Thanks for the pics Sanjay... I got my 'fix' now. But werent you talking about upgrading the skimmer at one point? I understand its enough, but I seem to remember you mentioning something about that. Perhaps a Bill Wann Super-King skimmer is in order?

 

[tnyr5]

"sniffle" they grow up so fast

 

[Clown-N-Around]

Congratulations on getting your tank setup!

Wow, beautiful work. I am really looking forward to meeting you and hearing your wisdom when you come to Colorado in February

 

[ms22ak2]

Very nice tank you have! Do you runt with deep sand bed? Or do you only have thin layer of Sand. /Marcus