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I absolutely love your tank.
Beautiful tank! @eschulis What kind of angel is that in there ? A venutus? She is my favorite! Also it’s only 12 gallons yet 36 inches long? It looks so much bigger than it really is ! That’s amazing !!
@eschulis wait you took a took of the divers den facility ? That’s amazing! That’s another story I need to hear all about. How was the facility? How did you arrange that tour? Was it fish heaven? And so you literally arranged to buy the angel when you were on the tour? Tell me everything lol!
Wow! Great story! Those displays are INSANE!!OK Gather round... Story time.
This was a few years ago. They usually do 2 Open Houses a year if you are willing to travel to Rhinelander Wi. I grew up in Wi and currently live in Minneapolis MN so the drive wasn't terrible. I think this might have been the third time I've been there but it was my first Open House. Usually you can only go to a small store thats attached to the facility. All of the good stuff is kept in the warehouse for the online Divers Den so all the rare fish and corals never were available in this little store on my previous trips.
This Open House was Aug 8th 2015. I traveled with a few local TCMAS (Twin Cities Marine Aquarium Society) members up to Rhinelander and made a day of it. At first you are allowed to browse through the little store front but when they are finally ready they call you back in groups to tour the Divers Den facility. You are shown all of the behind the scenes filtration, grow out tanks, fish acclimation, corals flats, bagging and shipping, etc. The entire tour takes about an hour and then after the tour you are free to browse all of the fish and corals and purchase almost anything thats ready to be listed online or thats currently online but not yet claimed. They have a few sections of saltwater fish and a new expanded area for freshwater fish. Then the main attraction is row after row after row of coral raceways. They have so many varieties of wild harvested, maricultured, and aquacultured corals to look through. Its slightly overwhelming trying to narrow down want you want to take home.
Random photos of the facility
One of their main display aquariums
I appologize that I don't have a large photo showing the tanks in @KevinKohen 's office. There are 3 of them. A 30ish gallon nano with softies, gonipora, and clownfish. I believe a 180 divided into 3 sections. Each with different rarer fish that he was acclimating and adjusting to reef tanks. And another 120ish tank that was all SPS dominated.
Picture of the Venustus in his office aquarium. Later that afternoon I inquired if I could buy that exact fish. He said he wanted to let the fish grow and adjust a little more. Once he was ready he said he would catch him and list him for sale.
And a few weeks later (Nov 3) I got one of the largest bags of water I've ever been shipped. For a 2" fish. The catalog for that season was also the Venustus Angelfish. The photo was most likely from a bigger one that was in a different tank.
First photo of him after acclimating to my tank. (Same photo I use for my profile Icon)
Amazing build , truly Tank Inspiration for me and the ideas I have for my IM30L EXT! I tried searching through your build , but I couldn't find it. What skimmer are you running on this amazing system of your's? Once again Beautiful and Amazing tank @eschulist !!!
Thank you!
I am using the Aquaristik 80 skimmer.
Cool! I didn't realize they'd upgraded it.Made a slight upgrade to the ATK
I've tested this new PMUP for about a month and its been running well without any issues. Quieter than v1 which is a nice bonus
Love the updates and would love to see more @eschulist ! I wanted to ask what media reactors are you using, and where did you get the orange vinyl tubing in them?