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[yitman]

My new 1000 liters (265gal) tank

I am planing my new tank, the dimensions:
length: 160 cm (63")
width: 90 cm (36")
height: 73 cm (29")
1000 liters (265gal)
glass thickness : 15 mm (.591")
I am going to use Hammerhead gold the return pump.


plumbing:
The yellow pipe (40 mm) is the main return from the pump and it will be split under the rocks.
The red pipe (25mm) is the return from the chiller.
The green hole (50 mm) is the return to the sump.
The orange hole (32mm) is the for feeding the skimmer.

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the stand

http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/09/stand.png

full view
http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/09/full.png

[yitman]

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[amehel0]

nice. like the aquascaping!

[Ed Reef]

+ 1 for the scape...

[GSMguy]

very very nice.

[ox5477]

I first saw that the eurobracing stopped right above the overflow and wondered, why the hell would you do that? Then i see you have the overflow attached underneath where the eurobracing stopped and ok... I guess thhats taking up for the euro missing there...

but is it really as strong as just having the eurobracing extending all the way to the corner? do you have any more detailed shops of the overflow contruction? is it made from 15mm glass like the rest of the tank? Maybe thicker glass? One pic looks like there is two layers?

Scape looks great, just being an engineer with all these structure questions :)

[yitman]

The euro brace made of 20 mm glass.

http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/09/16.jpg

http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/09/15.jpg

the overflow glass thickness is 10mm.

It was design like this in order to be user friendly(plumbing and maintenance).

the weak spot of such tanks is in the middle (top) of the back and front glasses and the purpose of braces is to prevent a glass curved.

BTW
the braces at the sides of the tank are unnecessary and they are just for extra safe.

[yitman]

some updates

I made some rock work and add some corals and fish.
http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/09/11.jpg

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And I change it again
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I am currently not using phosphate/nitrate reactor and my blue/purple/pink corals lost their colors .
The yellow/green corals keeping their colors.

Soon, I am going to start using Fauna Marin Ultralith system.

[lowendmelody]

I like it... very nice

[yitman]

Thanks lowendmelody.

Yesterday, I started using UltraLith System.

Currently, most of the corals colorless.
http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/11/1.jpg

http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/11/2.jpg

http://reefreak.com/blogs/yitzhaki/files/2008/11/3.jpg

I will keep with full updates here (http://reefreak.com/blogs/faunamarin/) and also post the picture in this thread.

[espocrespo]

quite a few dwarf anfels in there, how many u got? Looks very nice, good job.

[Lowredranger]

Tank looks awesome i love all the angels, have you had any problems with them and the lps you are keeping?

[rocknreef]

yitman


I really like the look of that rock.

Where did you get it?

[GlassReef]

Very, very nice! Well planned and cleanly executed. Impressive. I'm subscribed.

[yitman]

thanks

I had a lot of angels
some of the had disease and died
And I sold Apolemichthys trimaculatus and bicolor of them since they bite my SPS

The Rusty Angel bother the flame and the multicolor thus I sold it.

So currently I own flame and multicolor.


@rocknreef
I built it using a PVC pipes and epoxy.

I add Powder Blue and some Gobies and Bleni Midas.