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BlennyBabe
02/27/2007, 01:06 AM
Well here she is. All 850 gallons of her. (well not quite 850 but close enough.) The main tank is a fiberglass monster with three acrylic viewing pannels in the front. They have been horribly scratched by the previous caretaker. (Coraline grows like mad so I understand the temptation to use something metal to get it off) It is lit by 2 1000 watt 10,000K bulbs in the back, two 400 20,000k blubs in the middle and two 65 watt 10,000k PCs in front. There are two sumps full of live rock. There is an ETSS (i think) Downdraft skimmer that does a wonderful job (I never thought a skimmer could foam so much!)

Well I had better let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

From the fronthttp://photos-540.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/98/71/39205809/n39205809_30649540_6157.jpg You can see the 100 gallon makeup tup pn the left and the two 10 gallon displays on the top.


The display. I usually keep recovering frags or corals I need to keep an eye on.
http://photos-541.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/98/71/39205809/n39205809_30649541_6450.jpg

The side http://photos-542.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/98/71/39205809/n39205809_30649542_6751.jpg

The back.
http://photos-543.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/98/71/39205809/n39205809_30649543_7082.jpg You can see the second sump to the right as well as the RODI reservior and the dosing chamber. There are two seaswirls in the back corners as well.

From the other back corner. Shows the skimmer mounted above the first sump and discharging into second sump into filter bag.
http://photos-544.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v67/98/71/39205809/n39205809_30649544_7388.jpg



I have more photos of the inhabitants as well if anyone would care to see.

I have two huge colonies of acropora, a large turbinarina reniformis, turbinaria peltata, two galaxias, some m. digitata, several fungia, tons of colt corals, cabbage leathers, devils hand, sacrophyton elegans, and probably a whole lot more that Im forgetting at the moment.

herostar
02/27/2007, 04:19 AM
Lets see some pics of the corals!

SaveOurReefs
03/01/2007, 02:53 AM
Thats pretty cool, give us some more pictures!! Where is this at?

peanut95
03/01/2007, 04:08 PM
WOW I wish my wife would let have something like that!!!

BlennyBabe
03/02/2007, 02:35 PM
Here are some photos from my prop tank.

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/4864/corals669lv.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6035/red0gs.jpg
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2165/resize54kc.jpg
http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/9940/resize22wm.jpg
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/1583/corals117qf.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7967/corals516uz.jpg
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7244/corals33kz.jpg
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6329/corals48ck.jpg
http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/2538/toadstool4ka.jpg http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8661/yellowleather6mp.jpg
More coming...

BlennyBabe
03/02/2007, 02:41 PM
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2941/acroporacolony6dd.jpg
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4018/acropora1xa.jpg


I will try and take some more of the hard corals. I usually only take pictures to get help with identification. I know what all my hard corals are. Its the softies Im new at.

donnyholland
03/02/2007, 05:22 PM
Do you have to get in it to get to stuff?

Very cool though..

/d

apex003
03/02/2007, 05:35 PM
Wow. That is the biggest sump I've ever seen! :D

BlennyBabe
03/06/2007, 02:50 PM
Yeah, I get wet up to my armpits if I have to get something off the bottom. For the most part though, I use tongs.