Finally, room for fish and corals

[Bricky]

Just picked up a new tank on Tuesday. The Barrier Reef boys and I drove down to San Francisco this week and picked up my long awaited Elos tank.

Dimensions are 84"x40"x25.5". The back wall of the tank has ports for Tunze streams and small intake holes for allowing water behind the false wall.

The returns are 1" and are located in the upper left and right corners. There are dual 1.5" drains on each side that are also hidden behind the false wall.

Plans are to make this a SPS tank with a few LPS, zoos, and softies, but primarily SPS.

Lights are 3 400watt (SE 10k) LAIII's with 2 250watt (DE 20k) PFO pendants in between the LAIII's. There will also be 4 4' T5's on each side of the MH's. There are also 4 moonlights provided by Neptune.

 

[Jan]

Congrats, Bricky, on your awesome new tank. Can't wait to read your tank build thread.

 

[Bricky]

Here's a wide shot of the work/sump/refugium/QT area.

Lighting for the tank. The bones still need to be powder coated and skinned.

Frag tank lighting. 6 T5's

And water storage. 210 gallons of fresh and saltwater.

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[brady816]

wow!!!!!!!!! Going to be a great tank will be following this tank build!!!!!! more pics

 

[JPG@CFI]

Bricky

That is one sweet set-up. Hats off!

Jason

 

[jedimike]

I-m-n-v-us

 

[mmkeeper]

I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Blazer88]

Wow....just wow. I can't wait to see this one come alive. Give Ben's thread a good challenge

 

[trido]

OMG And I thought I had a nice system. Tanks like this make me look so Ghetto. We will all be watching closely.

 

[Skimmy]

man matt, that tank is smokin!!!!
i love the custom built tunze ports on the fake back wall, it looks so freakin sweet! lookin forward to seeing it live...
and the canopy is a thing of beauty for sure.
finally the bk will have it's rightful throne

 

[Bricky]

Thanks everybody. It has taken me nearly three years to get to this point. I've been planning and changing plans for quite some time. After odering the Elos tank back in March things have been moving alot more quickly, but there is still many things to do.

 

[DisturbedReefer]

Beautiful tank...how 'bout some updates

 

[roscoe]

Yes beautiful tank lets see some update please. Pics Pics pics. PS Todd that is what you need

 

[spongebob lover]

wwouu that's a huge tank .
can't wait to see it running

 

[brady816]

any pics??????

 

[Bricky]

Looks like I've been slacking here. I've started a thread on RC and haven't really been keeping this one up.

So here are a bunch of pics, because we all love pics

The old PC setup on the QT tank.

I've now got a 250w DE pendant with a Phoenix 14k bulb on it. I'm running a Sunlight Supply Galaxy e ballast on it.

 

[Bricky]

 

[Bricky]

Display tank lighting:

 

[Bricky]

Here's the tank I'm replacing. It will now be the frag tank.

 

[Bricky]

From shab to fab. The home for all the equipment and refugiums.