Anyone Have a Reef Tank?
 

Anyone else out there have a reef tank? I have a 300Gal reef with mostly SPS and a few LPS and soft corals. I made a place to check it out :)



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I have a 140 gal salt tank. Thought about doing a nice corner reef tank one with an arc'd front, but right now I don't have a decent place to put one.

That's awesome. I had my 300Gal custom made to fit in the wall of my office. It's a work in progress..and a money pit :Graucho

Do you have a pic of it I'd like to check it out.

I'm jealous.

Let's see some pics.

Ill call the battered womens shelter and persuade them to let you put one in your room.

A couple of years ago. It sits in my entry area against a halfwall that divides the entry from the formal dining room. I had the cabinet custom made to match the height of the half wall.

http://www.pk.com/images/purrsonal/aquarium1.jpg

Love it. I spent 3 years designing and installing custom marine tanks professionally in Toronto. Had my own for ages, but it takes time, patience, energy and MONEY.

Nice tank, PK!

pk, there are pictures of chairs on your wall. :question

got a 100 gallon....would love to see a pic of your 300 though...thats fucking huge! Nice pk :)

Nice Clown trigger.. I'll be posting my tank here in a second..

::blink::

Pics pics pics.

300 gallon is killer.

haha. yeah.. there's 4 of them...two on each side of the china hutch. Took me forever to find something that fit in that area that looked decent on a 10 foot wall.

hmm. so do you actually sit at your dining table, or just imagine yourself sitting? ;) *smoochies*

Another pic. This one was when the tank was first cycling...hence lack of fish. There were only two in there at the time.

http://209.81.0.2/images/purrsonal/aquarium2.jpg

haha.. I've used the dining table in that room a handful of times in the last 5 years. For the most part we use it to play games on.

You need some live rock in there.

Had a 100 gallon tank for a while, fully cycled and filled to the brim with critters. Ate up so much time and money that I had to part with it. It's unfortunate, the thing was beautiful but soured me on the hobby for years.

Before I moved to phoenix we sold our 90 gal reef to my high school for a few grand. A few grand didn't nearly cover the costs but still cool none the less. My favorite thing about a reef tank is its ability to run itself filtration wise. Once a balance is achieved the damn thing runs itself. No more water changes, no filters, no maintenance. The tank was running stable with a about 120 lbs of live rock, a plenum (sp?) , with periodic skimming. Can't wait to get back into it!

My tank after the move

reef tank is a totally different creature. I wouldn't be able to have the puffer, triggers or tangs that I have now. They'd kill live rock.

Impressive stuff... just might have to get one in the new house. I have the perfect spot for it too....

Well... holy shit. A friend of mine went to your high school!!! What year did you graduate? He was way back in... oh... 90 or so.

Here is my 300 Gal Reef Tank.. It's a bit dirty at the moment :)

http://www.marinepets.com/tanks/wethoneyreef.jpg

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Of course you could...it would just mean more maintenance. I just cringe when I see dead coral in a marine tank. :)

Nice!!

Pine if you wanna be a moderator on marinepets.com let me know.

Eh? Corals are a different story... triggers will eat invertibrates for breakfast, so it limits what you can stick in there.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wethoney
[B]Here is my 300 Gal Reef Tank.. It's a bit dirty at the moment :)

http://www.marinepets.com/tanks/wethoneyreef.jpg

Nice but doesnt look much like a reef tank...too many fishies :) Its saltwater for sure but i dont see many reef style elements....

very beautiful though for sure :)

wow thats a sweet setup you have there. We used to have a 100gal corner tank and would take our boat out to local reefs and catch new fish to put in it every few months.

what kind of fish do you have in there now?

I think I'd rather moderate the WetHonies instead! :Graucho

Right now there is:

2 purple tangs
1 Yello tang
1 domino damsel
1 blue damsel
1 madarin goby
1 soho tang
15 green chromis
1 Clarkii Clown
1 Percula Clown
1 "blue" tang
1 Unicorn Tang....


I think that's everyone :)

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A hawaiian puffer, a purple tang, niger trigger, clown trigger, couple of clowns, a harwike wrasse, a squirrel fish, and an achilles tang. A bit low on fish right now. I need to decide what I want and add a couple more.

I know.. I had a "meltdown" a while back when I added to much live rock all at once. I'm slowly building it back up.

well shit i graduated in 2000, don't think id recognize the name unless its someones brother/sister

In 2000 man that makes me feel old.

if you can still get it up without a pill you aren't old

My prescription ran out...

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mexico is only 3 hours away....just lemme know if you need the hook up

Firec let me know if you wanna moderate on Marine Pets

gosh those are pretty tanks PK and wethoney. i feel like such a punk. i only got into the fish thing a little over a year ago. so far i'm still raising freshwater fishies. i got two ten gallon tanks and am fixing to do the big upgrade to a 29 gallon tank. you guys are like gurus.

Come over to Marine Pets and you can learn all you need to know about keeping the salties you can do it in a 29

We used to have great tropical fishes but that bloody algae stuff fucked everything up. It was everywhere.

Might start up again though. In the mood now... :)

To many phosphates in the water :) Need yourself a plecostomas

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My first salt tank was a 29.

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That's called a "Nano" reef :Graucho

Woooo...I LOVE Reef Tanks.

I have 3 tanks right now.

250G, 75G and a 38G.


http://www.altmasters.com/reef/PC080056.jpg
http://www.altmasters.com/reef/PC080057.jpg
http://www.altmasters.com/reef/PC080058.jpg
http://www.altmasters.com/reef/PC080059.jpg

About 2 weeks ago, I had my perculas spawn and was up half the night trying to catch the lil buggers.
I got them in a small 20G and they are doing well.
I was about to catch about 50 of them.
Eight now..they are about the size of a pencil head.

I'll post pics later of them

Nice.
Very nice... :)

My first tank was a 38...then that wasn't big enough. Then went to the 75G and then 250.

Now I wanna build a 750G in the wall.
Hahaha....only problem is. i'll have to strip and get in to clean the glass probably..lol


Nah..been doing this for like 7 years now.
One thing is. Its an expensive hobby.
But the beaity of it is well worth it.

If I didn't have a tank...I'd prolly go nuts.
Then again..watch when something goes wrong with the tank and I go nuts anyhow.

Holy cow Jeff, you probably have about 12-15k in those things heh?