CCP's 2000 gallon Deltec reef tank

[Arnar]

I got some photos from German today.

I thought you might like to see "the making of"

... More pictures here

 

[RRodrigues]

Arnar, what's the glass thickness?

 

[Arnar]

The thickness is 19mm / 0.74 inch. (bottom is 25mm / 1 inch)

 

[EBOLII]

Once again I find great difficulty finding words to describe this.....only a public aquarium or zoo could possibly compete. How thrilling this must be for you

 

[trae]

WOW!!!

 

[Matias Ilhabela]

please, what is this?

thank you

Matias
Ilhabela
S 23° 47.383
W 045° 21.721
Brasil

 

[JCTewks]

looks like a biofilter to me

 

[ReefingBuddha]

i'd like to know as well... don't remeber seeing those on the deltec website...

 

[tom obrecht]

Correct me if I'm wrong butI believe these are ecocoolers....Deltec's type of chillers.

 

[matthew5664]

You are correct! big here in the UK as well

 

[GSMguy]

i checked out the ecochiller at atlantis in richmond looks cool.
i heard they only use 43 watt or something.

 

[matthew5664]

There is one drawback however the sponges inside need to be clean, very clean or they turn into a nitrate factory.

 

[ricks]

Excuse me if I'm wrong.. Buy won't that over time act like bioballs??? And start exporting nitrates back into your system? Also how will you remove the detritus build up over time.. Seems to me it will act like a pre-filter, with need to be cleaned weekly... You have a great looking tank going, but this pices of equipment has me confused...

 

[fade2black]

Maybe the water is filtered before going through it. Just a thought.

 

[Imri]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10354786#post10354786 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Matias Ilhabela
please, what is this?

thank you

Matias
Ilhabela
S 23° 47.383
W 045° 21.721
Brasil

These are sprinkler heads, they can be replaced with an eco cooler.

 

[cbui2]

I highly doubt Deltec would manufacture units that will leak nitrate into the system. ok now my tank is a nano compared to this...keep the pics coming and very impressive job..

 

[GSMguy]

so are sprinkler heads the same as a wet/dry filter?

 

[ricks]

Yup, just like a wet dry with bioballs.. Only larger, better have a very good prefilter inline and change often... They used to call them spray bars. They need to be cleaned regularly or they will clog up.. Make sure the size of the intake line isn't larger than the spray bar holes or they will clog up sooner....

 

[Arnar]

I'm going to see how these sponges turn out. Wet/Dry stuff is more popular here in Europe but I'm not a big fan though. I like the sprinklers on the return and it's simple just to remove the sponges and install a cooling system instead if it gives me grief.


More pictures !

When I got to work today they had already lifted the tank inside. Damn them since I was going to shoot video of the event. Thankfully a coworker had a small camera to take some pictures of the lift. On the bright side I didn't have to watch in a stressful anguish

... gallery here

The stand should be here tomorrow hopefully. I ordered a truck to ship it yesterday and I'm in some transport queue. Haven't heard from them today so I guess it won't be here till tomorrow.

 

[GSMguy]

sweet pics this is no normal private tank.
reminds me of shutinys thread a bit.

wet dry is persona non grata around here...
is the skimmer inline before the spraybars? if so that skimmer should be a good prefilter. also are you planning on using filtersocks of any kind in the returns?