Show me your inwall reefs.

[reefsahoy]

i'm considering building an inwall reef in my home, please show me your inwall aquarium and could you give me some insite on what you would have done differently and what you'd definitely do again if you were to build your aquarium into your wall again. thx

 

[Mock]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2098491

My Old thread has some of my set up... Its come a long ways but it shows the ins and outs I think.

 

[CaptiveReef]

My In Wall 120 gallon Reef

My In Wall 120 gallon Reef

Here is a short video of my 120 gallon reef in the wall, when you walk in the front door the tank greets you on your left side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWK-en3jOo

 

[slicksmith]

It is a marineland 300dd and it is 8'' out of the wall.

 

[slapshot]

Here is my 150. It's 30 inches high for reference. My filter, sumps etc. are in the basement. The tank is in a closet in the garage with the display side in our family room. Once you go inwall you will never go back. Things I'd change, no front entrance to the tank. It looks better but makes working on it a pita. Best thing I did was put the frame up over the sand height, so you don't see all that garbage that you can't clean on the glass below the sand level. I would also extend the tank 12 inches beyond the wall. I think it would give the effect of the tank going on forever.

 

[o2manyfish]

Slapshot,

Great design and landscaping.... Really well laid out mix


Dave B

 

[slapshot]

Thank you very much.

 

[reefsahoy]

Tanks slapshot. Thats actually what i was posting for. Looking for suggestions, what you'd do again, what are the draw backs. Looking good

 

[Mangodude]

Here is my 150. It's 30 inches high for reference. My filter, sumps etc. are in the basement. The tank is in a closet in the garage with the display side in our family room. Once you go inwall you will never go back. Things I'd change, no front entrance to the tank. It looks better but makes working on it a pita. Best thing I did was put the frame up over the sand height, so you don't see all that garbage that you can't clean on the glass below the sand level. I would also extend the tank 12 inches beyond the wall. I think it would give the effect of the tank going on forever.

Your tank is an EXPLOSION of color! Wow! really nice variations and creatures in there. Outdoes so many tanks i've seen. Have you been nominated for TOTM yet?

also, when you say add 12inches beyond the wall, you do mean on the back side correct?

Do you have a thread for your tank? would very much like to find out more

 

[Paul B]

This is my reef with the wall under construction in 1976, it is still running in there.
There is an exhaust fan above it and the top of the wall opens up to the ceiling. It is in a closet so I can also access some of the back.

 

[Wayner2]

What size tank?

 

[robs.mark]

Snapshot very impressive tank, beautiful colours. On the left hand side of your tank you have a thin curly stick that shoots up towards the top left of your tank, I've seen these once or twice before in peoples tanks and have always wondered what they are, could you enlighten me with an I.d please?!

 

[slapshot]

Your tank is an EXPLOSION of color! Wow! really nice variations and creatures in there. Outdoes so many tanks i've seen. Have you been nominated for TOTM yet?

also, when you say add 12inches beyond the wall, you do mean on the back side correct?

Do you have a thread for your tank? would very much like to find out more

Thank you very much. No not on this site. I just have never gotten around to it. No I mean the length of the tank. Front to back could never be long enough for me but if the sides went beyond the wall then you have fish and whatever your looking like sort of dissapear and leave you the illusion it continues beyond. Does that make sense?

Basically it is a 6 year old 150 gallon reef that I ran as an sps tank, then added a bunch of azoox corals to fill in the shadows. As you can tell I'm a nut about looking natural and no wires or equipment visible. Here is a challenge for you, there is a full sized Tunze wave box in there. Can you find it?

 

[slapshot]

Snapshot very impressive tank, beautiful colours. On the left hand side of your tank you have a thin curly stick that shoots up towards the top left of your tank, I've seen these once or twice before in peoples tanks and have always wondered what they are, could you enlighten me with an I.d please?!

Thank you. It's a member of the Cirripathes family. It is a black coral commonly called a wire coral. There are actually 3 of them in there. A yellow one, a blue one and a blue with yellow polyps.

 

[slapshot]

Here it is 6 years ago. I added to the pillar on the right and created another one on the the left front. Then I used the sides as rock. I was trying to replicate a cavern I saw while diving once.

 

[Mangodude]

Thank you very much. No not on this site. I just have never gotten around to it. No I mean the length of the tank. Front to back could never be long enough for me but if the sides went beyond the wall then you have fish and whatever your looking like sort of dissapear and leave you the illusion it continues beyond. Does that make sense?

Basically it is a 6 year old 150 gallon reef that I ran as an sps tank, then added a bunch of azoox corals to fill in the shadows. As you can tell I'm a nut about looking natural and no wires or equipment visible. Here is a challenge for you, there is a full sized Tunze wave box in there. Can you find it?

I can't find it yet! you must have it very very well hidden.
I get the idea bout the length. That would be very impressive!
the addition of the nps corals in the sps system really adds another dimension to it. I like the extra shapes in contrast with the the sps.

Thank you. It's a member of the Cirripathes family. It is a black coral commonly called a wire coral. There are actually 3 of them in there. A yellow one, a blue one and a blue with yellow polyps.

I think chingChai has one of those. Always liked them but could never find them around here.. how hard are they? they take high flow?

 

[slapshot]

Pretty easy to find now. They are mariculturing them. Divers Den has them quite often. I'm sure if you contacted any of the sponsors on here or your lfs they can get them for you. A very easy coral to grow and they grow very very fast.

The azoox corals are the coolest and I have the whole refridgerator feeding system hooked up. By far the coolest animal in my tank is a very rare royal sea apple. I have kept a sea apple for two years now and even rehabilitate one that is still alive. The royal eats constantly and the big test it goes to the bathroom daily. The royal has been in my tank for 6 months now and continues to grow. I feed the tank ever hour a mixture of Fauna Marin food and phyto. In addition I feed the fish once a day. Another thing that surprises people is there are two huge moray eels in there. They live underneath the shelf rock in the center. One is an almost 3 foot long snowflake and the other is a 3 1/2 foot zebra.

As you can imagine keeping the water clean is the trick. Two big skimmers and 300 gallons of sump plus bio pellets keep it all perfect for the sps.

Oh and the wave box is on the right built into the rockwork. It can be removed for cleaning. The Bartletts are swimming in its flow in the above picture. Lol thank you for all your comments.

 

[Mangodude]

I noticed that sea apple in the first pic! very impressive for an sps tank! beautiful specimen.
I didn't see the morays but's really something. you seriously need to get nominated for TOTM. if you know how to do that i'll nominate you and can get a few friends too..

haha i thought my sump was big! i've got a 75g on a 150g tank. Yours is huge!! Do you run socks/bioballs/rubble? regufium? what kinds of skimmers?

 

[slapshot]

No sumps are just that sumps full of water. I have two 55 gallon drum deep water sumps that are slow flow and 4 feet deep then a 150 gallon Rubbermaid tub. Lastly a 50 gallon deep sand bed filled with macro. I heat the tank with our hot water heater. So the 150 tub is filled with pex tubing. I guess I should work in a tank thread here. No I have never been nominated for TOTM on this site but have had that honor on three others. Thanks again for your comments, it's nice to know my obsession is appreciated by more than me. Now if you could just convince my wife!

And, sorry to have monopolized this thread. The above tanks are spectacular. Slick that moulding work is crazy.

 

[robs.mark]

Thank you. It's a member of the Cirripathes family. It is a black coral commonly called a wire coral. There are actually 3 of them in there. A yellow one, a blue one and a blue with yellow polyps.

Thanks!