LUNATIC FRINGE-Duel 500g tanks, 1600g total
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Kona26
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....reading / checking out your tank build....my women walks in and says "what are you doing..?" ah just looking at this guys huge *** tank build... (glance over to my tanks) --- "babe we need a new tank" --- haha your tanks are fine 
--awsome build man...my 120 takes almost all my time tweeking / moving stuff around...I can only imagine how much fun you have with that thing...!
--awsome build man...my 120 takes almost all my time tweeking / moving stuff around...I can only imagine how much fun you have with that thing...!
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Hey man how are things going? The reef tank is banging(looking good). Just caught up on the build and want to say sorry for the mishaps. Hope the other fish are doing great. Good thing you didn't have both systems connected.
FuzzyZipperbaum
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Need to subscribe to my own thread...
I was going to do that and tried to figure out how to make it work but in the end I thought cleaning the connection between the two would prove difficult. I also thought of putting a jelly fish tank above the TV between the two but shot that one done also.
FuzzyZipperbaum
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....reading / checking out your tank build....my women walks in and says "what are you doing..?" ah just looking at this guys huge *** tank build... (glance over to my tanks) --- "babe we need a new tank" --- haha your tanks are fine
--awsome build man...my 120 takes almost all my time tweeking / moving stuff around...I can only imagine how much fun you have with that thing...!
You know from a work stand point I am not sure that one 500 is all that much more work than a 120....cost are a little different.... but I do like the fish room....wife and kids always know where to find me.....
FuzzyZipperbaum
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Deep breath...... Still trying to get my arms around these things.....
FuzzyZipperbaum
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Thanks..still waiting on the drawings to finish this up....
Reef is coming along nicely.....Fish and shrimp (8)have been doing great.
Yup....glad I went with my gut on the separate issue....fish are back in...kept them out 7 weeks....it was very painful looking at a fallow tank and then going downstairs and have all these eyes falling me around the fish room with that...dude get me back in the tank look. I should have waited longer and took a chance going back in only 7 vs 10-12.... but I am going out of town for 2 weeks and didn't feel anyone could take adequate care of them in the QT. So far so good.
Sat on the 48 for NC game.... Just got my tickets for the Spring game...be up your way soon!
Centralreefs
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Interesting build, i like the idea a lot.
JanVelazquez
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Wao!!! Impressive build
I also had two 500Gal tanks but sold one off due to space limitations.
Saw the skimmers and I hadn't thought of putting in two of them (redundancy) I heard that you should size it for the water volume and that putting tow of them was not advised.
Do you have them separate or is the water shared in a single sump? Speaking of which I didn't see the sump.
What lighting are you using?
Besides the skimmers, what do you use for filtration?
Sorry for so many questions but I am almost finishing up my 500gal and want to learn from others.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work
Jan
I also had two 500Gal tanks but sold one off due to space limitations.
Saw the skimmers and I hadn't thought of putting in two of them (redundancy) I heard that you should size it for the water volume and that putting tow of them was not advised.
Do you have them separate or is the water shared in a single sump? Speaking of which I didn't see the sump.
What lighting are you using?
Besides the skimmers, what do you use for filtration?
Sorry for so many questions but I am almost finishing up my 500gal and want to learn from others.
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work
Jan
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
FuzzyZipperbaum
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FuzzyZipperbaum
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The entire setup is exactly 20' long.
I had the cabinet guy over on Friday as we are working on the hoods. WOW it is a TON more engineering than either of us thought. I am going to use linear actuators to lift the hoods up and down. There will also be cabinets that go to the roof in the middle where the TV is... Trying to lift 300 pound lids from the back.....have them with close to perfect movement to not interfere with the TV cabinets....have side access behind the TVs..... All of this with trying to build the lids with structural integrity so that they can withstand being moved up and down over time.....
FuzzyZipperbaum
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Very long.
You or anyone from Tampa heading over the reef show next weekend in Orlando? Gonna go post this on your thread also as there are a bunch of locals that post there....
