Biggest tank on Reef Central? MÃ¥st Beautiful?
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jumboshrimp18
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And just when I thought my 20,000 gl aquarium was looking good...I'm going to Riverhead, the shrine of captive care, that's all there is to it.
But hey Reefers, what's going on here? How did we get so far into this thread without someone bringing up this 5,000gl home aquarium--maybe because the owner isn't a member of RC--I don't know.
http://www.marineaquarium.nl/december-2005Engels.php
But hey Reefers, what's going on here? How did we get so far into this thread without someone bringing up this 5,000gl home aquarium--maybe because the owner isn't a member of RC--I don't know.
http://www.marineaquarium.nl/december-2005Engels.php
reefsociety101
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best thread ever~!
TheCoralReef731
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JustJoe - do you own the whole museum?
Justjoe
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Majority yes. There are still quite a few of other standard reef fish, and not limited to clowns, gobies and blennies, wrasses, triggers, getting into some angels recently, damsels, etc so lots of non obvious fish that are in and out of all the rockwork which I enjoy.
Its nice to see the damsels staking out their territory and other more natural behaviours.
Joe
Justjoe
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No, I don't own it but did cofound it with one of the owners. I'm responsible for the tank layouts, design, life support design and building them, and now keeping everything swimming happily. We now have two owners and I couldn't ask to work with/for better people. They have been there all along, in the trenches doing all the dirty work to get the aquarium built, plus all its additions through the years.
So even though its a public aquarium, to me its the same feeling as setting my home tanks in the past since I/we designed and installed/ built everything in house and from the ground up.
The ultimate DIY for my lifetime for sure.
Joe
Justjoe
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Interuptus, juv emperator, regal,blue, blueface, flame, African flameback and I've had genicanthus in there from early on.
Most are behaving ok, we'll see how it goes but the tank is I hope well established now to handle some picking here and there. If not, they'll get pulled. I try to get as much food into them in throughout the day to minimize their picking. As long as the leave my lps alone, they can basically pick on anything they want.
Joe
Justjoe
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There are several multi million gallon tanks, non are live coral tanks. There is a large tank at the Burger Zoo, I believe its over 200,000 gallons and its a live coral tank.
Georgia Aquarium just opened and has a reef based tank that is a mix of live and fiberglass corals that is advertised over 100,000 gallons, I don't recall the exact advertised gallonage.
Joe
cutsupremetrib
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insane pictures isnt that a little overstocked???
Fishboykaps
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Keep posting some awsome tanks!!!!!
reefsociety101
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Ditto.
Soltaker
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Hey Joe...
With that many Tangs, do you ever get fights? It looks as though you KIND OF took the same approach as cichlid owners. Stock the tank to the point where there is no need to fight because there just can't be 1 dominant Sohal / Vladmingi, ect... Is this accurate? Or is the tank so big that they simply have so much room that they all have their own space / home to be territorial with? Either way the tank is outstanding. Well done!
With that many Tangs, do you ever get fights? It looks as though you KIND OF took the same approach as cichlid owners. Stock the tank to the point where there is no need to fight because there just can't be 1 dominant Sohal / Vladmingi, ect... Is this accurate? Or is the tank so big that they simply have so much room that they all have their own space / home to be territorial with? Either way the tank is outstanding. Well done!
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