550 gallons deep display from Lebanon

Very neat electrical setup.
I would still add a couple of timers in the circuit boxes for things you want to control like fuge lighting, fans...
 
Thx Maroun!

I will wait until I know which is which and then proceed accordingly with the timers. The main problem here is that each will have to control a bank of four, so all of them would be on or off at the same time if I were to add the timers to the circuit boxes.
 
ahlan ahlan, it is always great to meet lebanese refers all over the world. You have a great tank with a great fish selection (hint carmabi) and corals. Do you have a build thread on here, or somewhere else?

I would be glad to help your cousin here. The situation is getting better by the day, more and more equipment is coming in, but I still had to get most of it from abroad. I will pm my email to you and he can contact me anytime.
 
I not much here we have a club in venezuela and i have almost every thing there, but i have same posts here like this one http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1976083 but not new ones. We have a reef business here in venezuela Akil Aqua farms C.A but its tu help other reefers becouse here its like libanon too. www.akilaquafarms.com its a coral farm and reef supply we are just bigening with it. when I was in lebanon i never imagened that I would have a reef tank same day and we I sow your tank feeled happy becouse now i know if i go back to lebanon I can have it there too. Is there other reefers en lebanon??? nice tank but wy dont you use live rock??? do you want to put a biopellets reactor???

ok i will give the email to my caz :) nice to meet you realy. I will visit you next year to see your tank if there is no problem when I go to lebanon. salaam
 
You are most welcome anytime and it will be a pleasure to meet you.

Good luck with your business and I wish you all the best.

I will have all the liverocks in the sump and not in the main tank. Main tank will be all ceramics. I will also wait on biopellets and will test them on a later stage.

We are a bunch of reefers here in Lebanon but very few. One other build thread is the one of Maroun. this is his thread http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2015174
 
Happy new year everyone!

It has been a while as the end of the summer was very hectic due to business and heavy traveling schedule. But we are right back on track here a few photos of the update shots during this time.

Finished the side and back paneling from the inside with some black acrylic. The fact that I will be using 100% LED affected the choice of color greatly. I really hope I can keep it as clean as possible as the end result would be outstanding.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614721537/" title="P1010047 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6614721537_c952a559d4.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010047"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614722429/" title="P1010049 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6614722429_8c93a65060.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010049"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614723347/" title="P1010048 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6614723347_33b295a17c.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010048"></a>

Sump is also done, 2 sumps joined together at the front. The skimmer will be in a separate sump at the back of the tank on its own stand. THe sump starts with 3 baffles then a raised eggcrate into 3 main sections. 1st 2 sections will be lit and will have Liverock and Caulerpa. I am still undecided which would would go first as I would prefer to start with Caulerpa, but thios would render pruning a much tougher task. The third section would be for unlit Liverock. Then there are 6 buckets that would serve as RDSB. This would make it much easier in case I want to remove them after a certain period of time.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614722715/" title="P1010051 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6614722715_ea1686d7e9.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010051"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614724361/" title="P1010053 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6614724361_d59d40ce54.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010053"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614724065/" title="P1010052 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6614724065_234a9ee461.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010052"></a>

And a few more photos of the partially lit tank. I have a maxspect G2 230W on the left and Chinese custom built 200 W fixture to the right. The second is a seriously powerful fixture to the eye. I will probably have to raise the fixtures a bit, but that is not a problem.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614724657/" title="P1010054 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6614724657_d910eca60a.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010054"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614723515/" title="P1010057 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6614723515_a5058b87d2.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010057"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6614725397/" title="P1010058 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6614725397_a82ba7eca8.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010058"></a>

We should start the scape tomorrow! I will update accordingly!
 
aqua20, mike660r, thank you very much! So far, albeit with some delay, things are turing out the way I wanted them to.

webersole, I will take some more shots of the overflow tomorrow.
 
Maroun and Pierre passed by and helped me install the RO and set up the scape. Thank you guys!

The Ceramics came in a large box, well packed with all sort of styrofoam and bubble wraps. Very good packing due to the fragile nature of the ceramics. I had a few legs broken and everything was fixed easily using the cement sent along (easy because Maroun had previously worked with it and knew the exact consistency needed). The bridges were also cemented.

And now some photos:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642033751/" title="P1010018 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6642033751_08aa676a74.jpg" width="360" height="480" alt="P1010018"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642034021/" title="P1010019 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6642034021_ac72ddc899.jpg" width="360" height="480" alt="P1010019"></a>

Thats a big box!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642034575/" title="P1010017 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6642034575_f78ce255e7.jpg" width="360" height="480" alt="P1010017"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642035473/" title="P1010021 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6642035473_e3058f80fc.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010021"></a>

And now onto the finished product:

The left side of the scape

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642034829/" title="P1010066 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6642034829_db92acee4d.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010066"></a>

and the right side

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642037775/" title="P1010067 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7170/6642037775_7c61784746.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010067"></a>

Overall look

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642036151/" title="P1010064 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6642036151_ffea5bcb36.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010064"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642038175/" title="P1010071 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6642038175_fe0d7c04b0.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010071"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642037449/" title="P1010070 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6642037449_ec3080e6c0.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010070"></a>

View from the side glass

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6642038421/" title="P1010069 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6642038421_2e0c22c644.jpg" width="360" height="480" alt="P1010069"></a>
 
webersole said:
I would love to see detailed photos of your overflow. I've been thinking of using something similar on my new tank.
Click to expand...

Here you go

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6654078361/" title="P1010077 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6654078361_841cdac27d.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010077"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6654077317/" title="P1010074 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6654077317_57d9349204.jpg" width="360" height="480" alt="P1010074"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6654078001/" title="P1010075 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6654078001_7ddd956aa4.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010075"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54478441@N03/6654077683/" title="P1010076 by Aqua-Boutique, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6654077683_1258016631.jpg" width="480" height="360" alt="P1010076"></a>
 
Is that a door at the back of the tank that leads to the outside of your apartment?
How do you get access to it?
Awesome aquascape, really love the ceramic rocks. Too bad they are so darn expensive!
 
Looking good Raed:beer:

I am sure there will be swimming some pretty rare fishes in time:spin2:

Ceramik looks great,now the corals.
 
blkg35 said:
Is that a door at the back of the tank that leads to the outside of your apartment?
How do you get access to it?
Awesome aquascape, really love the ceramic rocks. Too bad they are so darn expensive!
Click to expand...

Thank you blkg35 That door leads to the terrace. This is the only access to the tank apart front the front both above and below the tank.

The ceramic rocks started with less pieces and then ended up with much more. The price was not very bad taking all factors into consideration. They are also very very porous.
 
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