600 gallon Acrylic Reef

[DizziDezi2]

paul where did you take those pics??

 

[pwhitby]

The new Bass pro in Tulsa.

 

[TheMcs]

uh, I believe you mean the new Bass Pro in BROKEN ARROW!

Cool, didn't know Tim was involved in that.

 

[keckles]

What's a Broken Arrow?

 

[chris4693]

Isn't a Broken Arrow the term the government used when they lose a Nuke?

 

[aleiodubua]

lol, yeah, that's the code.

 

[TheMcs]

Too bad they don't 'broken arrow' at the BAPD.

 

[Kyle McClain]

Paul,

It only took two of us to place the 500 gallon tank we place at the childrens place a few years ago. Granted we had a wide open space to work in and only one door to move it through.


Who is making your tank?

Kyle McCLain

 

[LotR Clown]

Paul,
PM me when you need help. If I'm not working, I'll give you a hand.

Kevin

 

[pwhitby]

Guess what I will be doing thursday.......????????

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Eating?! Sleeping?! Using the restroom?! It's got to be one of those. I hope "shower" falls in there, too. All of this should occur, of course, after you set up that 600g tank!!!!

Seriously though, how are you going to do it? Just get the dry goods set up first? Will you do 600g of freshwater and then cycle it? Or will you dump everything over and then top off with fresh saltwater? Are you worried about kicking up any hydrogen sulfide from your sand?

 

[pwhitby]

On thursday i go get the little baby.

 

[pwhitby]

Travis, the basic plan:

Rewire half the house
Build a stand (steel or wood)
Set Tank on Stand.
Begin plumbing
Modify garage to a fish room, fit AC unit shelves etc.
Buld 3 100g sumps interconnected. One for macroalgaes.
Add 500-600lbs sand (pre-cured by mixing with old tank water for a several weeks)
Finish plumbing
Add 600g water
Connect sumps and get water flowing
Connect new tank with old tank via the old tank sump.
Run both at same time to get same water conditions.
Add cured rock to new tank
Move old rock and livestock to new tank
Decommission old tank.
Move lights over to new tank
Build wall around stand/tank
build cabinetry for tank.
Pop a beer.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

That sounds like one heck of a plan. How long are you expecting to have it take? Think it will be done by the end of the year?

Also, do you plan on adding any more rock?

 

[NewBeReef627]

POP A BEER?????????

POP A BEER?????????

Are you going to wait that long to pop a beer?

 

[pwhitby]

i just bought back over 100lbs of large coral rock from hawaii, plus i have around 300lbs in my garage curing. Add that to the 400-500lbs I already have....should be enough.

P.

Lori....beer popping starts thursday..lol

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

I would have been able to help with the beer popping, but I gave Poke75 what I had left of my beer at the Stillwater Mini Meeting. Can we bust a bottle of champagne over this behemoth like they do when they christen a ship?

 

[pwhitby]

NOTHING touches the tank....

which makes it hard to move, I know....

 

[ZC]

So what day are you thinking of moving the tank\needing help?

 

[poke75]

Here Paul, I will help...

Rewire half the house
Pop a beer.
Build a stand (steel or wood)
Pop a beer.
Set Tank on Stand.
Pop a beer.
Begin plumbing
Pop a beer.
Modify garage to a fish room,Pop a beer, fit AC unit shelves etc.
Pop a beer.
Buld 3 100g sumps interconnected. One for macroalgaes.
Pop a beer.
Add 500-600lbs sand (pre-cured by mixing with old tank water for a several weeks)
Pop a beer.
Finish plumbing
Pop a beer.
Add 600g water
Pop a beer.
Connect sumps and get water flowing
Pop a beer.
Connect new tank with old tank via the old tank sump.
Pop a beer.
Run both at same time to get same water conditions.
Pop a beer.
Add cured rock to new tank
Pop a beer.
Move old rock and livestock to new tank
Pop a beer.
Decommission old tank.
Pop a beer.
Move lights over to new tank
Pop a beer.
Build wall around stand/tank
Pop a beer.
build cabinetry for tank.
Pop a beer.