Tank of the Month - January 2008

[zemuron114]

stan, your PM box is full

 

[JG24]

Stan, Thanks for the PM and Clarification about the Calcium Reactor. I appreaciate it.

It's been said many times already. This system looks awesome in person. If you saw a picture without the exterior of the tank, you would swear it was the ocean.

 

[Elliott]

Energy, did I hear you correctly, you don't use a computer controller? do you use ozone and/or uv?

I noticed you have sand but not that much, is that for cosmetics only? do you have a remote deep sand bed?

 

[Energy]

Elliott- no computer controller and I used to but no longer run UV or Ozone. Shallow sand bed in the main display with no remote deep sand. I have run systems that way but do not do this currently. I believe a top notch skimmer will provide filtration than a deep sand bed. To recreate the spawning area that a sand bed provides I have excess live rock in a remote refugium, lifted off the bottom on eggcrate so I can blow out any accumulated detritus.

 

[Elliott]

do you leave the sand alone in the display or remove/replace the way Steve Weast does? any cyano problems?

 

[Energy]

I don't touch it, I let the critters filter the snd, IE gobies and starfish.

 

[youngreefer33]

Amazing system. When did you put this all together?
I had Chris do a custom tank as well, and it has turned out to be an excellent addition.
Where have you gotten most of your livestock from?

 

[MarkO]

Have you ever considered natural lighting? I understand it may be impossible with yoru current tank, but maybe comething to consider for your book.

 

[jonathanws]

WOW

 

[arbee]

Stunning tank! Congratulations!!

 

[pmpier]

Magnificent!

 

[moses13]

Phenomenal tank! Gratz on TOTM.
Did you ever post build up pics? I'd love to see the island builds in more detail.

 

[Elliott]

Energy, can you go over how you provide flow in such a large tank? again, many thanks for sharing your experiences

 

[ihavtats29]

im lost for words bravo!!!!

 

[reefCrawler]

unbelivable beautiful tank,

how giant and healthy everything grows, beautiful, just astonishing beautiful!!

book title? I'm waiting it to publish

 

[kdblove_99]

Very nice!

You say you prefer 20K bulbs but which 20K?

Radium, XM or Helio?

 

[dc]

An absolutely beautiful tank. I am in awe of it.

Adorable kids too.

 

[jg2269jg]

amazing tank what else to say love the aquascaping and the whole design great job u are officially my new reef idol

 

[Azazael13]

To hide the PVC framework I sprayed it with Great Stuffâ"žÂ¢ foam in a can. I let this foam cure for 24 hours and then I applied an epoxy resin that contained no mold inhibitors.

I don't suppose you can remember the epoxy resin, or go into a little more detail about this? I would like to do something similar and this seems like a great way.

 

[BigEasyReef]

I thought that I was pretty proud of my 250g until I saw that, now I am almost ashamed of it. Great, Great, Great tank !!!!