Richie's Reef

[rkaragozler]

My name is Richie, some of you might now me, some might not, I started reefing in January of 2010 with a 175 gallon bow tank. I looked at an empty tank with rocks in it for 2 months, and after countless days and nights adding fish, coral, equipment, and sweat I achieved my goal of having a reef. But their was something missing, I wanted more, I read thru thousands of tank threads of members that had larger tanks, this was my dream to one day have a very large tank, with lots of fish and lots of coral, and to bring the piece of the ocean into my house. This happened in November 2010, I was the owner of a 450 gallon tank from (qy400). November 26th 2010, the tank was picked up in LI, with the help of friends. The truck will bring this dream of mine to Brooklyn where it will get torn down, and trucked back to my house, (couldn't move the tank the way it was down the strairs) The tank will be assembled on site in my basement. Thank you all for making MY DREAM COME TRUE.
If you would like to see the tank pictures in detail, please go to
rkaragozler's Public Profile on Photobucket.com
ANd here is a little video on my Bio.
The Fish Doctor - YouTube
Here are some pics from day 1 till present.
ENJOY

 

[revhtree]

Awesome tank bro! Glad to have you posting.

 

[Electrobes]

:jaw:

 

[Electrobes]

Now give us some details about filtration, lights (I see you went from halides to something else?), etc.. this looks like a great tank!!

 

[3Twinklets]

Very Nice Richie! Lots of work in that.

 

[m'akoyPINOY]

rich,nice tank and great build!nice seeing you here on R2R!

 

[glamisracers]

nice setup richie

 

[byronious]

That's awesome. So awesome in fact I wish I had never seen it. jk

 

[skinz78]

Awesome looking tank, keep the updates coming!

 

[MIKE NY]

looking good Richie ...I know the history of that tank. You have done alot of work to get it where it is today and I'm glad to see it went to a good home...how do you like the LEDs?

 

[revsgirl]

Wow!! Amazing tank!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[fraghunter]

Finally maded it on R2R. Seen this in person many a time still one of my favorite setups. Gets better every time I see it.

Jpellica

 

[notxes11]

Great lookin setup. Love the sturdy stand.

 

[rkaragozler]

It's been way to long. well it's been a hectic couple of years but I managed to get thru it.
I removed about 400 pound of rock, and about 400 pounds of sand. The tank has 8 Rapid Onyx units running at 100% intensity for 8 hours a day, I am in the process of adding dimming to it.

 

[Daniel62]

looking good