My New 1,000L "almost" Cube

[illcssd]

I think in all my years of reef keeping, this is my favorite aquarium. The only thing missing is a nice magnifica anemone for your 3 clowns. I think that'd fit in well with your setup. Beautiful creation, Michael.

 

[t4zalews]

Yea, awesome scape. Did you start with dry rock? I restarted my tank in November with nothing but dry rock and they are no where NEAR how purple your rocks are. Any secrets?

 

[Tempelton Pec]

Amazing tank and build. I love the yellow tangs too!

 

[Michael B]

Another fine example of a incredible South African build !! well done Michael!!

Thanks for that kinlayan

love the openness of this tank!

Thanks and that is excatly the look I'm going for, with space for the corals to grow

I think in all my years of reef keeping, this is my favorite aquarium. The only thing missing is a nice magnifica anemone for your 3 clowns. I think that'd fit in well with your setup. Beautiful creation, Michael.

I'm humbled by your very kind words - thank you - and oh how I would love an anemone (just too nervous with my powerheads & Vortech pumps)

Yea, awesome scape. Did you start with dry rock? I restarted my tank in November with nothing but dry rock and they are no where NEAR how purple your rocks are. Any secrets?

Thank you and started with 90% dry rock & the rest came from my old 5 foot - no secret really LOL, think it just seeded well from what Live Rock I did have & also doing the tank with a dsoing pump helped?

Amazing tank and build. I love the yellow tangs too!

Thanks a million

 

[Michael B]

And just few coral shots for fun ...

 

[Michael B]

So I was a little bored being at home alone, so decided to take some photo's

My Tank

Tank from the Front

 

[chingchai]

Love your tank.
Very clean and nice.

 

[Michael B]

Love your tank.
Very clean and nice.

Very honoured that you enjoy my tank chingchai - I follow your tank almost daily (thank you again)

 

[lotusstar]

Awesome tank. I was wondering what the height of your stand and canopy are. It's very well proportioned with the tank and looks great. How do you access the inside of the tank. Looks like the top of the canopy is open? Do you just reach over or remove the canopy? Thanks.

 

[Nautilus84]

Wow!!!
It's wonderful!!!
I'd like this layout!!!

 

[Michael B]

Awesome tank. I was wondering what the height of your stand and canopy are. It's very well proportioned with the tank and looks great. How do you access the inside of the tank. Looks like the top of the canopy is open? Do you just reach over or remove the canopy? Thanks.

Thanks, my stand height is 800mm and the tank 600mm and the canopy strip is 200mm. Open top, use a step and just reach over.

Wow!!!
It's wonderful!!!
I'd like this layout!!!

Thank You

 

[Necidemos]

This tank is very impressive. I actually quiy my ghosting the forums and just had to type in here how I LOVE the tank and how neat everything is. Great job, man.

 

[Scffvariable]

Love the aquascaping. This is the motivation for me to build my new tank. Wont be this big, but thinking 36x36x24 and with a very open rock work like your. NICE JOB

 

[Michael B]

This tank is very impressive. I actually quiy my ghosting the forums and just had to type in here how I LOVE the tank and how neat everything is. Great job, man.

Very kind of you to say Necidemos

Love the aquascaping. This is the motivation for me to build my new tank. Wont be this big, but thinking 36x36x24 and with a very open rock work like your. NICE JOB

Thanks a million and all the best with that build - GO FOR IT

 

[Michael B]

A few photo's of my clown fish

 

[illcssd]

That female is beautiful for a designer clown!

Do you guys have many clown breeders over there or were those hard to get?

Great pictures, man.

 

[Michael B]

That female is beautiful for a designer clown!

Do you guys have many clown breeders over there or were those hard to get?

Great pictures, man.

Thanks and yip we do battle to get designer clowns here (lots of patience LOL)

 

[Moort82]

Its nice to see one of your builds from the start. I've followed a couple on UR and must admit i've loved them all. For me one of the most impressive features is the amount of space you have left for the fish to swim about. Its really nice to see such an open layout.
What swings it though is the little barnacle clusters with the two little faces poking out. The tailspot has been my favourite fish for a while and i'd love to sneak a barnacle blenny in my tank somewhere. You don't see many of the guys with bigger setups thinking about the little species.

 

[yudruln8]

What sand are u using

 

[Michael B]

Its nice to see one of your builds from the start. I've followed a couple on UR and must admit i've loved them all. For me one of the most impressive features is the amount of space you have left for the fish to swim about. Its really nice to see such an open layout.
What swings it though is the little barnacle clusters with the two little faces poking out. The tailspot has been my favourite fish for a while and i'd love to sneak a barnacle blenny in my tank somewhere. You don't see many of the guys with bigger setups thinking about the little species.

Thanks so much for the very kind words

What sand are u using

The LFS sells it as crushed coral -very small circular particles (in one area where the flow is very strong I added some much larger substrate to stop it from blowing around)