My Latest Venture

[brian waller]

My latest venture is a 6'X2'X2' reef tank with a 5'7"X20"X15" sump.Not one ounce of LR in the tank or in the sump. The tank was filled with water & salt on 4-2-07 it was dosed for 8 days with stability and i then tested the water parms on 11-2-07 and found all to be ok. I moved some live stock into the tank 12-2-07. I have been stocking with fish & corals and have had no problems.
The tank has two corner weirs that discharge in to filter socks in the sump, which in turn flows onto bio-balls then over the filter floss and then in to teh engin bay. The engin bay is 2X 9000lt/hr pond pumps,1-UV unit, 2-carborlite reactors, 2-hang on skimmers on each end on the sump. The return water from the sump is bounced off the front of the tank to give the required water movement. As you can see from the photos you could water ski on the top of the tank. Also this method does away with power heads, wave boxes clutering up the tank. The lighting of the tank is done by way of a 6' 3X150w metal halid with 4 atanic blues built in.

Stock list:

• 3 Yellow tailed blue damsel
• 1 Fireball Angel
• 1 Coral Beauty
• 1 Majestic Angel
• 1 Blue check goby
• 2 Scooter Blennys
• 3 Black & White Clowns
• 1 Purple eye anthias
• 1 Vampire tang
• Red tipped crabs
• Turbo snails
• Shrimps
• Serpent stars
• Oysters
• Softie Corals
• Acrocs Corals

[brian waller]

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[Blue]

Nice 1 Brian, you really have got some movement, maybe a tank of the month in the making here ;) :) . With those big pumps do you need a heater Brian, as I reckon they will give off a bit of heat :confused: . The stock look really well :)

[oakwell]

loking great well done!

[Tetley]

Brian,

Hats off to you, stunning. :)

No L/R ? (What is the rock you have in main display?)

ATB

[Gillybaby]

You tank is looking great Brian, I really like the stepped aquascaping. Loads of space for corals ;)

I think its great to see innovotive new theories and this obviously works well for you. Am looking forward to seeing it mature :D

[Buster]

Looking good Brian. is that juwel tank backing?

[mfcfan]

:) great stuff brian that looks fab will look stunning when it matures

[brian waller]

Brian,

Hats off to you, stunning. :)

No L/R ? (What is the rock you have in main display?)

ATB

hi tetley, the rock is imitation LR, with 2 models i made from cement,and cured for 6weeks before use .

brian.

[MR Teee]

Hats off Brian, it does look good.

What is the rock in the main display? it looks very 'realistic'. (Doh answered it above!)

Sump looks very well thought out, any chance of a run through of what each section does?