The Fish Room 500

[pch90265]

Hi Qunitus -- All of the pictures you are seeing are natural light only at this point. I'll be hanging the halides tonight.

--SM--

 

[Mrbeachbum2]

wow, well planned!

 

[mobius9oo]

This is awesome, I check up on this thread everyday....hoping for more pictures and progress....PCH, incredible job I must say.

 

[IMPERATORFAN]

Incredibly ambitious! Love the skylight concept.

I knew I should have followed in my fathers footsteps and become a sales schmuck!

Keep us posted.
Scot

 

[qwuintus]

pics!! ;D

 

[Frisco]

sweet setup

 

[Reddhaus]

Very amazing, I must say. Keep those pics rolling in.

 

[gumbybc]

so, have you had any problems yet with your returns and closed loops kicking up sand??

 

[pch90265]

Couple of quick pics

Couple of quick pics

Well, spent my birthday Saturday moving rock and acclimating coral. As it was my birthday, I did NOTHING in the way of aquascaping the rock that had been moved, and I placed the coral in the tank pretty willie-nillie... but, here are a couple of pics anyway!!!

In a couple of days I'll spend the time to aquascape this the way I want it. There are four or five large rocks living in my sump that will get incorporated some how, just not sure where yet . . . stay tuned!

--SM--

 

[willra]

Wow, the natural sunlight on that second full tank shot looks cool. Its hard to see, but have you added the halides yet?

Will

 

[qwuintus]

awesomE!!

 

[reeftechie]

that is an awfully big tank for the one little fish ... Great looking tank bro, and that skimmer is very nice as well.

 

[crazyfingersmike]

Why would you need metal halides when you've got natural sunlight?

 

[jmt]

Color and supplementation. You don;t have much sunlight on a cloudy day .

SM: Amazing job.

 

[Reddhaus]

Yes I am very interested in seeing some pics with the sunlight and MH bulbs running at the same time.

More pics please!?!

 

[crazyfingersmike]

I think it would be interesting to see how a reef tank could work with natural sunlight alone. I mean, the ocean does, right?

 

[H_Bomb]

Been reading this thread all morning. Great stuff! I'm in the process of designing something quite similar to what you're doing. I'm in Miami Florida and we get "a lot" of sun here. I will eventually start a thread as I get closer to the addition on the house. The system I'm planing will be somewhere between 1400-1600 gallons. I will definitely tag along and learn more than a few things from your experiences I'm really interested in seeing how your corals respond with the sunlight. Good luck!

 

[reeftechie]

H_Bomb,

I think your a bit impatient lol.. enter 4 times? RC is slow lol, take it easy on the trigger finger

 

[Jamesurq]

what was that? Not sure I got it.

 

[Scleractinian]

what was that? Not sure I got it.

The last poster on the previous page quadra-posted.


How's the mylar holding up? I tried some a couple of years ago, but it tore easily and corroded in the salt spray.