the.............................. Big one..........

[abyss1]

anyway

firstly, my name is rupert ( abyss ) and ive been lurking around on here for quite a while, just seeing what you all get up to this side of the pond

but i thought it about time i introduced my future project, have all the gear, just waiting to move house

i havnt worked out how to post pics up yet and i hate hosting pics on other websites

so to make life easy, here is a link to my uk thread, on Ultimate reef

this is when my tank arrived

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=249559

and this is the planning

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=248456

more information

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=208782

anyway

as soon as i can work out how to post pics and get into my new house, ill keep you all posted on the new build

kind regards

rupert

 

[CaptiveReef]

Now Thats a Tank

Now Thats a Tank

:eek1: Man what a tank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:eek2:




Keep the pics coming.



CaptiveReef

 

[abyss1]

will be a big tank

as soon as i get my new house, i will let the picture porn commence

loads of pics

but before that happens...................can someone tell me how to upload pictures please?

thanks again

rupert

 

[CaptiveReef]

Uploading pics

Uploading pics

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12824805#post12824805 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by abyss1
will be a big tank

as soon as i get my new house, i will let the picture porn commence

loads of pics

but before that happens...................can someone tell me how to upload pictures please?

thanks again

rupert

I use photobucket it's real easy!

CaptiveReef

 

[abyss1]

cheers captivereef, hopefully this will work

here we go then

hopefully these will be some of the pics from when i had it delivered to go into storage

if it works, ill add more later to continue the story

just gives you an idea of the size of the tank

regards

rupert

 

[abyss1]

and heres a few more

tank in situe, storage until sale of house, this is 8 ft x 4 ft x 42" tall

with a veiwable 3 ft of water, the additional height is for splash or spray, aswell as surge

you will have to excuse position of the tank, as it is stored on its face, this is to protect it

some equipment

more

and even more

lo and behold, more

closed loop intake box, this will have a sliding grill down the front for easy maintenance, and takes 2 x 50mm bulkheads which will in turn feed 2 x AG14 pumps, these will return flow back to the tank via 2 x 4 way oceans motions

one of the 2 external overflow boxes, in 25mm acrylic with lids and built in returns, the grills were done by CNC

these each have 2 x 63mm bulkheads to sump and 1 x 40mm bulkhead to carry the encloes return in each

another

and another

built in, internal, vortech housings, allowing flow from one top crner down to bottom opposit corner, these are dry chambers

i just didnt want flow to be from front ot back, or left to right etc

happy veiwing

regards

rupert

 

[chrissreef]

I like how the wheel came off =)

 

[mattsfishes84]

Ok.. i'm not getting it..
please expain to me how you got the dolly sideways and back down under it?
... what am I missing?

 

[abyss1]

ha ha

we used 4 of the dollys to support the tank, while lifting it out of the van

then lifted again, while the wife, flipped em back over, so as we could manouvre it

R

 

[Skeptic_07]

your boy nick needs to tighten that belt up!!! :lol:

Your tank is a monster! the thingies for the vortechs is really cool!

 

[abyss1]

cheers skeptic_07

yep, the vortech thingies are cool

R

 

[JRaquatics]

SWEET! That tank is huge. Love the Vortech dry boxes.

 

[Acan Lord]

Wow huge tank. Looks like ton of equipment.

 

[CaptiveReef]

Beautiful tank construction

Beautiful tank construction

The company that put your tank together, I have to take my hat off. They did an incredible job!!! The workmanship is stunning!!!




:thumbsup: CaptiveReef

 

[abyss1]

thanks for the replys guys, ill get some more pics up over the weekend

and also a couple of pics my old one

as for the tank manufacturer, good bunch of guys at a company called

www.talkingplastics.co.uk, www.talkingtanks.co.uk

and listened to all my requests for my build, aswell as making a few other bits and bobs

like my 4 way micron bag holder, for mechanical filtration, ill put a pic up in a bit

regards

rupert

 

[abyss1]

guys

heres some pics of the micron bag holder and a couple of my temp holding system, with my 2 Grotech HEA300,s skimmers

skimmer porn....................yeah baby

this holder is split into 2 indevidual chambers and can be run independently of each other, each compartment has 2 micron bags in each

also they have lids over the top, to prevent splash and salt creep aswell as keeping them quiet

you will also notice a 1 " lip along the top of the bag tray, this allows water back to the tank, should the micron bags become blocked and overflow

the next 2 pics, are of my temp holding system, as i have now broken down my old tank and am waiting to move house at some stage

this will just make life easy, the skimmers are grotech HEA 300,s, each of these will easily skim 7500 litres and there is one on each vat

keep you all going for a bit

regards

rupert

 

[Red Sea Purple Tang]

OMG! Adopt me......

 

[dougie]

me too

 

[abyss1]

and just to keep you interested

here is my old tank, tiny in comparison, but it was a 7 x 2 x 2, this is now in the holding vats

and the next picture is of my favourite bits of equipment, my 2 babys, these will be more than adequete for skimming my tank

as for control

im going to be using GHL profilux

there will a profilux plus 2 built into the lighting rig and this will control

4 x profi LED,s in each corner

4 x 4ft twin T5 dimmable light units

4 x 3ft twin T5 dimmable light units

6 x 400w lumenarc reflectors

all contained within a sliding light rig

then i will use another profilux plus 2 ex, this will control all of the monitoring and dosing within the system, aswell as messaging and control via web access

i will also have a pc on the fish room side for easy monitoring of system and on the display side, i have bought a 3M touch screen monitor, so as i can easily access the fish room side to make any changes, without the hassle of a mouse and keyboard

so all in all, this should turn out to be an amazing system, all stuff is now purchased and in storage

anymore info, feel free to ask

regards

rupert.

 

[atwinparadox2]

Definitely staying on top of this one!! What an amazing tank. It's freakin huge!!