birth of 2 builds totaling 30k gallons

great build, all the best...

have you looked at one of these for flow, Tritron based stream pump
 
Thanks for letting us have a look at building a huge tank. I'm excited to see all of your fish and coral selections.
 
Galtamar. Finally digging and piling steel driving down into earth to build extention sub basement and fish rooms. I hope to have pics this week when I'm back from camp visiting day for step kids. Pretty hard to watch a wrapped up tank sit there. What am I hoing to take pics of .. more concrete that ajoined the tank. Lol.
 
Thx pife. I can't wait myself. Have no idea how I really can quarantine so many fish. I may have to get whole batch in at first and prazzi or keep low salinity and raise and take out med when ready for coral and next batch. Just impossible to quarantine schools of butterfly's and tangs in separate 180 gallon tanks at least initially. My biggest fear is that I'll fight parasites for first year etc.
 
No. But I think it's on schedule now. The cemewnt needed to brace tank more has been poured and dried. That's the next set of real pics and paper comes off.
 
Hedgedrew,

I would not quarantine in tank if I were you. Getting something like meds into your system could have further consequences as would the possibility of letting parasites into the tank in the first place. If this was a fish only artificial reef then you might be able to pull this off, but in a future reef tank with calcium carbonate rock which is porous and not chemically inert I would not quarantine in tank.

If you only use prazi and hypo then it could work, but if you find yourself going with other meds because they don't work for whatever reason then you will open up another set of issues. You can always quarantine in a stock tank system. Cheap and easy to set up and tear down as needed. 300 gallon stock tanks work for most species and multiples can be plumbed together if necessary. Can't view horizontally but still can work. They make up to 1000 gallon stock tanks that are 36 inches deep.

Best is still a traditional quarantine system. You can't get away with the groups in small tanks so you either need big quarantine tanks or lots of smaller tanks plumbed together. In the public world we used a combination of these systems depending on species considerations.
 
Yes. Snicely. Been thinking about this. Was even thinking hypo salinity until ready for corals. Really need to talk to Joe yaurillo and find out what he did
 
hedgedrew said:
Yes. Snicely. Been thinking about this. Was even thinking hypo salinity until ready for corals. Really need to talk to Joe yaurillo and find out what he did
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You cannot do hypo-salinity in a reeftank, even when there are no coral. All the invertebrates in the tank (live rock and sand) will not do well.
I think your only option is to keep a very diverse tank. Quarantine and treat all the animals prior to introduce to the system.
You can treat a FO system, but if you want a reef tank, there is just no way to treat the whole system.
 
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