16 foot Reef by Elder1945

danangelo · Oct 23, 2015

Awesome love this tank man i wish i had space in my house for a longer tank

Elder1945 · Feb 16, 2016

Small tank update!

Diesel · Feb 16, 2016

Great update my friend.
I think you're ready to go BIGGER!! :rolleyes:

Cment · Feb 16, 2016

Looks great glad to see it getting filled with fish again! Flow looks nice as well.

007Bond · Feb 16, 2016

I like the open space to the right,...are you planning on adding rock and expanding in that direction as your tank grows? That would be a great way to build your reef rather that filling all at once. I always need time to think and rethink my layout and still I move things. :D

MRRBW · Feb 16, 2016

Love the display. Great way to incorporate open space and a reef.

knukles55 · Feb 17, 2016

Wow your flow looks really good for this size of a tank

Elder1945 · Feb 17, 2016

Diesel said:
Great update my friend.
I think you're ready to go BIGGER!! :rolleyes:

Thank you!
Yes the plan is to move and build a new system that is 2,000 Gallons+ :)

Cment said:
Looks great glad to see it getting filled with fish again! Flow looks nice as well.

It is nice having fish the whole experience of this tank has tough me to slow down in stocking.

007Bond said:
I like the open space to the right,...are you planning on adding rock and expanding in that direction as your tank grows? That would be a great way to build your reef rather that filling all at once. I always need time to think and rethink my layout and still I move things. :D

Yes the plan was to slowly add as needed. This helps me when i buy larger corals they are usually attached to larger rocks.

But I kinda like the way it is as it reminds me or diving in Mauritius and looking at there reefs. More natural looking in my opinion.

MRRBW said:
Love the display. Great way to incorporate open space and a reef.

Thank you i think it is at a point now where i truly enjoy it.

knukles55 said:
Wow your flow looks really good for this size of a tank

Thank you. This took some work but i think i have it down..

Elder1945 · Feb 18, 2016

New fish are in :)!!!!
I would like to thank Red and The Coral Reef Shop for these amazing fish.

I also today ordered a few upgrades to the tank from reefsupplies.ca, I am going to be adding the ALD to my apex with 3 low-profile probes. I will also be changing my Jebo's that I currently run with the Apex WAV. I ended up going with 4 WAV pumps and 2 modules. The other option I was going to go with was the Maxspect Gyre XF130 x4 but it lost the coin toss :).

I will also be adding 1 more AFS to try to curb any aggression that is bound to show up due to the new inhabitants of my tank. Also a VDM module for some projects I have planed.

The only thing I think I am missing now is one more DOS system for dosing.. This will come later as I slowly switch into sps.

I will be taking some pics of my tank this weekend as it is doing quite well in my eyes. I also have a video interview with LEOPAZZO coming up that will be fun and hopefully answer some questions on my system. I know now that he is battling a crash on his tanks and hope he is still up for doing it.