675 gallon glass display / 1,100 + gallon system in LA

[kinggeorge818]

Definitely excited to see what you end up putting in this tank. Are the feed/drain lines going through the floor?

We had to saw cut some concrete in areas and dig in others to get it near the garage where we built the fish room. The pvc pipes are running approximately 75'




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[cFloor]

What an amazing build! Everything looks amazing and I'll certainly be following along. I love the aquascape as well. It'll be interesting to see if you can keep the different sands separated from each other. I know in my tank it would all get jumbled together due to both flow and livestock.

 

[kinggeorge818]

What an amazing build! Everything looks amazing and I'll certainly be following along. I love the aquascape as well. It'll be interesting to see if you can keep the different sands separated from each other. I know in my tank it would all get jumbled together due to both flow and livestock.

I don't expect the Sand to stay perfectly separated but I'm curious to see what happens too.


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[d-man]

Gorgeous set up. My hats off to you

 

[gavinbree]

That aquascaping will look pretty awesome, looking forward to see this evolve.

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[kinggeorge818]

That aquascaping will look pretty awesome, looking forward to see this evolve.

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Thanks [emoji120], i found it hard to make the rockscape look good from more than one side...and since it is a peninsula style tank that has 3.5 sides showing it made it really tricky.
I tried to shoot for light and airy....I also tried to incorporate a large cove area and four separate "tree" like structures.




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[biecacka]

What pump are you using to get the water back through that 75ft span of PVC?


Corey

 

[kinggeorge818]

What pump are you using to get the water back through that 75ft span of PVC?


Corey

I'm gonna use something easy/cheap to use and change out if needed like a fluval SP6 and use two of them to send water back via 1.5" pvc lines


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[kinggeorge818]

These are the pipes connecting the end of the tank to the pipes going into the ground


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[bxbe888]

Awesome tank!


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[ravi197699]

Beautiful tank and rock work - I am upgrading the tank as well and my tank will be built onsite - 90" x 60" 32" high = 3/4" thick glass tempered, I am planning on using steel bracing on the top and bottom. what type of steel is it on your tank? Is it 316 steel or regular steel L shape with powder coating??

 

[kinggeorge818]

Beautiful tank and rock work - I am upgrading the tank as well and my tank will be built onsite - 90" x 60" 32" high = 3/4" thick glass tempered, I am planning on using steel bracing on the top and bottom. what type of steel is it on your tank? Is it 316 steel or regular steel L shape with powder coating??

My guess is that it's regular stainless steel and it has a white semigloss powder coating on top


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[kinggeorge818]

6- MP60s quiet drive
2- MP40s quiet drive

Do you guys think that it's all of them a place like this on one end of the tank that it will generate enough flow for a 9 foot long 675 gallon tank?


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[kinggeorge818]

I tried to make sure the rock work is not blocking the powerheads but I realize that overtime the coral can grow into the way of the flow. But for now I wonder if I can keep all of the flow on one end of the peninsula.


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[gavinbree]

I'm thinking you should have some at both ends if possible just to give an alternating current, would be more dispersed as well, with them all at one end you will get a huge blast at one end and almost nothing at the other.

I guess the other end is going to be for viewing purposes though which makes it awkward to put pumps there.

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[kinggeorge818]

I'm thinking you should have some at both ends if possible just to give an alternating current, would be more dispersed as well, with them all at one end you will get a huge blast at one end and almost nothing at the other.

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I'm debating using 3x Gyre 280s (because I already have them ready in the box [emoji403])which would produce 6,000 GPH x 3 = 18,000 GPH .... The only problem is the aesthetics [emoji848]I was just hoping to keep a clean look.

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[Mebeknob]

I'm debating using 3x Gyre 280s (because I already have them ready in the box [emoji403])which would produce 6,000 GPH x 3 = 18,000 GPH .... The only problem is the aesthetics [emoji848]I was just hoping to keep a clean look.

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I agree on the clean look. I think the best way to keep it clean is having a closed loop with on the bottom. Then hiding as much of the nozzles with rock as possible.

I like your aquascape. So many look good from one side but are flat or 1D on all others. Well done


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[kinggeorge818]

I agree on the clean look. I think the best way to keep it clean is having a closed loop with on the bottom. Then hiding as much of the nozzles with rock as possible.

I like your aquascape. So many look good from one side but are flat or 1D on all others. Well done


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I try to stay away from using a closed loop system because I wanted to avoid drilling unnecessary holes into the tank but I guess I have a limitations with my flow options


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[gavinbree]

You could run a closed loop and run the pipe under the brace bars and down the corners, not really optimal, but at least no need to drill holes with that.

Or even run the pipe under the sand bed.

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