Please show pics of your 180 tanks

[April540]

What are your plans for the tank?

 

[Kevin McG]

What are your plans for the tank?

Me?

If you are asking me I am planning mostly softies and fish although I am thinking of getting some hard corals eventually.

I need a calcium reactor 1st.

 

[April540]

what kind of lights Kevin? and which protein skimmer did you go with>

 

[Kevin McG]

what kind of lights Kevin? and which protein skimmer did you go with>

I am using a euro reef 8-2 with this tank. For lighting I have a aquaspacelight 3x250 watt MH w/ 4 24 watt actinics.

 

[mako56]

Gettin the itch for my new tank. Trying to decide if I want to make the stand out of wood or go with stainless steel tube.

 

[April540]

Gettin the itch for my new tank. Trying to decide if I want to make the stand out of wood or go with stainless steel tube.

What size tank are you looking at? 180 on a tube base? Dont think I've ever seen that. do you have pics of a tube stand?

 

[April540]

Are these all the 180gal. tanks? Please dont stop posting them I would love to see more! Thanks

 

[Putawaywet]

Mine's not a standard 180 per se...

It's actually a custom 48"x30"x30"

But here's a few shots of the tank back in Aug of last year. They're the most current pics that I have. As you can see I'm a believer in the "less is more" approach with my rockwork.

Brett

 

[deansreef]

Brett,

what is that substrate? Looks very interesting. how long has the tank been setup?

Dean

 

[Qdoggie]

heres my 180 with a cave to the left and an overhang just to the right of the middle.

heres my 180 with a cave to the left and an overhang just to the right of the middle.

 

[Putawaywet]

what is that substrate? Looks very interesting. how long has the tank been setup?

Dean

The substrate was a mix of Tahitian black moon and regular aragonite. Looked good for a while but the excitement quickly wore off and I have since swapped it out to a mix of #3 & #5 aragonite. The tank has been up little over 18 mo's but those pics were taken around the 1 year mark. I have made some changes since then.

Brett

 

[cediss]

Here's Mine

Here's Mine

Not much yet! Will hopefully be fully operational starting next weekend. Atleast thats what I'm planning!

 

[cediss]

Very nice aquascaping Putawaywet! We need to try to resist creating the wall every time. Great tank. Looks more natural. More of us need to get out here, or recall what it looks like on a real reef. Youve captured it pretty well!

 

[April540]

Mine's not a standard 180 per se...

It's actually a custom 48"x30"x30"

But here's a few shots of the tank back in Aug of last year. They're the most current pics that I have. As you can see I'm a believer in the "less is more" approach with my rockwork.

Brett

Very nice tank, great colors.sometimes less is best! I have a hard time reaching in the 24 in. depth,I would never make it 30 in. You must have long arms. LOL:rollface:

 

[April540]

Re: heres my 180 with a cave to the left and an overhang just to the right of the middle.

Re: heres my 180 with a cave to the left and an overhang just to the right of the middle.

Do you have some close ups of the tank? Maybe sections of it, to see it a little better, Looks great!


And cediss, I bet you cant wait to get that tank set up! Its really nice, Keep us up on the progress, just take it slow!

 

[zoocrazy]

nice tank putawaywet!!!

 

[Qdoggie]

this is all I have at the moment. I just completed it a week ago.

this is all I have at the moment. I just completed it a week ago.

 

[divein4444]

Here's a pic of mine a few weeks ago, I recently re-did the rock work on the right side to provide more real-estate and overall a better look I think.

 

[April540]

divein4444, When you redid the rock, did you take out the corals. or move them over to the other side, I'm afraid to move the rock and squish something!

 

[April540]

Re: this is all I have at the moment. I just completed it a week ago.

Re: this is all I have at the moment. I just completed it a week ago.

Really nice tank! How much rock do you have in there?