480 gallons and 5 years of pics

[scchase]

Here is my tank it is 480 gallons and made out of plywood with a 100 gallon sump and an attached frag tank. Photos are form oldest to newest

 

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[Zero Nitrates]

Wow! Nice pics!

 

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[mike007]

Very nice my friend.

 

[pam0630]

Absolutely beautiful... I didn't ow that you could some of the angels you had n a reef system....corals and everything stunning

 

[scchase]

Well time for an update three weeks ago the display portion of the system lost power due to a faulty wire in the wall 100% loss for the display luckily my frag tank was ok so I have a bunch of frags to regrow from. Yesterday things finally cleared up enough I redid my aquascaping and now I am working on reseeding all the little critters needed to make things run.

 

[Keithcorals]

Very sorry to hear that. Your tank looked like a display at a public aquarium. I'm sure you will have it looking that way again and I'm looking forward to the new pics.

 

[scchase]

Picked this guy up today as replacement form my purple LTA they are being sold as Octopus LTAs

 

[scchase]

Phosphate down to .03, corals growing like mad, next up kill all the flatworms, anyone have and Springers Damsels?


PC Superman table


Tierra Del Fuego

 

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oops

 

[scchase]

So left this off a long time ago, broke the tank down to move and it was in storage for most of 2014-June 1015. Set it back up last June, had a mini crash in December after I programmed my heater to the wrong temp probe and here it is today.

 

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[Maximizer]

Looks good. Thought about building a plywood tank. What did you use to seal the inside?

 

[scchase]

Fiberglass and then Epoxy paint, tank was built in 2005

 

[Maximizer]

Looks good for an 11 year old tank.

 

[Maximizer]

How are you lighting this? Details about entire system?

 

[scchase]

4x 400mh with reefbrite duel arc bulbs, MRC reactor and duel becket skimmer. Archon system running everything

 

[Maximizer]

looks good! Is it just 3/4" plywood or do you have it framed in on the outside?

 

[scchase]

Both actually, though the plywood frame was not original, more of an accident that I ended up liking so I kept it when I moved the tank. On the one that I am currently building it will be an integral part of the build.