The Fish Room 500

Delayed!!!

Delayed!!!

Arrrgggghhhh!!! My tank was supposed to be here today, but the shipping company misdirected it to City of Industry... oh well, it will be in town tomorrow, well ahead of the 4/22 date that James at Envision promised.

Since I'll be out of town and unable to receive the tank/post pics, I thought I'd throw a pic in of the hole my wife was kind enough to let me put in the ceiling!!!

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The horizontal beams you see in the pictures are the rough framing for the hood. I'm going to hang a 84" wide x 18" tall door on either side that will open up, garage door style. The inside of the hood will be covered with silver Mylar. Should be nice and bright in there!!!

--Sean--
 
Ummm, maybe I missed something, but why the hole in the ceiling, and i assume roof(?)? To get the tank in?
 
Hey Derek,

Hole in roof = substitue for 3000W of MH lighting...

I'm going to put a 4' x 8' gabled ridge skylight where the roof used to be. I am *hoping* that I can get away with 1000W of MH as supplemental lighting on this tank... 4 x 250W 20,000K DE's. I'm going to be DIY'ing the skylight out of polycarbonate sheets, as that seems to be the material that is most transmissive of "solar energy" (ie, PAR wavelengths) instead of "visible spectrum." (polycarb vs. glass vs. acrylic, that is)

Living in So Cal this seems feasible, but time will tell. It will make a great science project regardless!!!

The tank is going to come in through the French Doors my wife insisted we put in... :)

--Sean--
 
just tagging along! this project looks really good so far and well thought out Sean. Must be nice to have the vision and the finances to back it up. hehe
 
hi travis,

great question... i don't know if this is going to work, but here's my thinking:

since the inside of the hood is going to have reflective mylar to *hopefully* direct as much light into the tank as possible (think big "light chimney," or "sola tube") i am going to put reflective coating on the top/sides of the pendant's too. on top of that, rather than having the pendants parallel to the long sides of the tank, i'm thinking of suspending them on cables. the cables would be fastened to an eye hook on the inside corners of the hood, so the pendants would hang in an "X" pattern. one pendant in the middle of each "arm" of the "X."

my thought is that offsetting the pendants from being parallel to the hood will cause lots of reflection. with a slight slope of the mylar surface inward *toward* the tank, i'm hoping that the diffuse light the reflective surface casts will "soften," if not eliminate, the "dead spot."

sorry if that doesn't make any sense... been a looooooong day.

oh, one more thought... 4-6 hours a day the lights are going to be ON. that should eliminate the "dead spot" too . . .

cheers,
sean
 
A little confusing but I think a catch your drift.:)

A thought I had was maybe attach the pendants to the front side of the canopy and angle them so they give a nice spread over the tank. With the lights being attached to the front of the canopy they will block less sunlight. Also, the little sunlight that does get blocked will only be the the light which would have hit the front of the sandbed where there will most likely be fewer, if any, corals anyways.

Regardless, wrapping the pendants in some reflective material should help a lot.
 
X5 vs XL Tank . . .

X5 vs XL Tank . . .

Well then, it's HERE!!!!!!!!!

Check out this pic for scale.

Big crate = the Beast
Little crate = the Sump

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The Beast in its Cage

The Beast in its Cage

Well, it will be another 18 hours or so before the crew gets here to help me move the beast into place, but I had to post one more pic of my new baby...

The bulkheads on top are for the drains. The measure 14" across when sitting side-by-side as shown.


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looks great... hey are you renting out space in the tank?.. i need somewhere too live for a couple of month.. i promis i won't be too messy.. and not loud.. and i won't take up that much space really.. that way you can rent out the other half to anybody else that's interested.. haha.. jk.. looks great.. looks big.. looks expensive.. but i can't wait to see what it ends up looking like..

good luck :)
-Chris
 
Congrats. Must be an EXCITING day for ya. Can't wait to see the tank moved in to its home. Take lots of pics of the move for us.
 
Sean,

Lookin' Good! Can't wait to see the "Beast" moved in and in place! Thanks to you and "griss" for posting your tanks and experiences with James @ Envision. I have already spoken with James regarding my next tank...can't wait to get started. He was very helpful and informative even though we only discussed generalities. Thanks again.

Brian
 
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