540 Acylic FOWLR

[cmulawka]

I would like to start this thread to document the construction of my 540 gallon Fish only with live rock. After seeing HDTVGuy's tank it has inspired me to set one up of my own.

Pics of the tank under construction.

 

[cmulawka]

The inspiration on this project

 

[Daytymer]

Tagging along. Can't wait to see this in action. Very nice. Congrats and here's to the new project!

 

[cmulawka]

I would like to house the following fish.

GOLDEN PUFFER
BLUE TANG
CLOWN TANG
CLOWN TRIGGER/ In my 90 already

MINIATUS GROUPER/ In my 90 already
HALFMOON ANGEL/ In my 90 already

BLONDE NASO TANG
RED CORIS WRASSE
PARROT FISH
EMPEROR ANGEL

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

very nice

 

[MAthU]

barebottom?sandbed?..

 

[cmulawka]

BB my work was throwing out some cutting board. I got it and layed the peices out they are the exact size of my aquarium. But i do have to sand them down to make them look like new.

 

[MAthU]

your going BB, and you want a RED CORIS WRASSE....they need sand IMO...mine loves sand it sleeps under it and is always digging.

 

[mako199]

Will it be a room divider also or in wall?

 

[cmulawka]

Mathu you are right huh I really like that fish too
mako199 it is going to just be against a wall. but i got the overflows on the side if i ever decide to move it.

 

[hdtvguy]

Nice Tank! Can't wait to see this thing setup Take lots of pics.

 

[sixxer]

Corey,

Is your tank coming from Precision Clarity?

 

[cmulawka]

Yes I am expecting it from them this week,I am prepareing the floor to hold the weight I will have pics hopefully later today.

 

[sixxer]

I have been pleased with my dealings with precision so far.

Here's my 600

It's still dry, but parts are coming in from Savko this week and then it's off to the races.

 

[cmulawka]

Sixxer sweet tank and stand . I would like to copy your stand do you have any pic that you havent posted yet I have all the other ones saved on my computer allready

 

[cmulawka]

Here is my 90 I will be getting rid of when i set up the 540

 

[cmulawka]

The room on the other side of the stairs is where i would like to put the 540 . Where the head board for the bed is.

 

[cmulawka]

I have the floor supported by the jacks below. The tank runs across 6 beams and I nailed 2 extra 2 x 10's to every beam. Then supported each beam with over 10,000 lb house jacks and the other side sits on my footer. Its about a 24 inch crawl space at the opposite end of the house. The jacks sit on top of 12inch pieces of 2x10 leveled and sitting on the clay ground.

 

[cmulawka]

also here is the cutting board that I have to sand down.

 

[cmulawka]

I also plan to reuse the 2 250w metal halides for lighting but I would like to change the bulbs to maybe 10,000k . I dont really like the look of the 20,000 anymore with just fish only.