Very nice overflow box, any durso pipes with the "short" overflow?

What is the thickness of the glass on your tank and any center brace?

yes, there will be durso overflow - 2 of them. The thickness of the glass is 3/4" and there is no center bracing. 5" internal eurobracing 3/4" thick.

sanjay.

Sanjay,
Great project/thread!! I am looking forward to it's progress. Do you think 3 of the L3 reflectors would be adequate for a tank dimension of 96x36?

Well, depends on what you are trying to do with your lighting. You could light it with one lamp :D , depending on your aquascaping.

However, if you want a wall to wall lit tank.. then I would recommend going with 4.

I prefer to aquascape based on the lighting. I know in my tank I want to leave open spaces at the ends, atleast about a foot on each end.. that leaves me with about 5ft of linear length to light with decent intensity. I can get that with 3 lamps.



sanjay.

Sanjay,

Why do you want to leave the open spaces? Is it for aesthetic reasons or for corals that like less lighting, or just the way things worked out?

Thanks,
-Craig

I wanted to leave the open spaces at the ends for better water flow, and for lower light corals too. I like to keep a wide range of corals and with a big enough tank it would be easier to provide regions where they would be happy.

Also, aesthetically I like the look of tanks that are not wall to wall live rock.

sanjay.

It's also nice to leave plenty of room for the corals to grow. I see so many large tanks that have sps colonies crammed inches away from other colonies with no room.

Yeah... I have to agree with sanjay. GO with 4 L3's :)

absolutly! :)

If you have a big tank, you should leave some of it open. Just think, one of the reasons people get big tanks is well...to have more room... lol!

If you agree with Sanjay, then you'd GO with 3 L3's ;)

trhats what i meant to quote ;)

Thanks, I think for the time being I will aquascape with the three lamps. They are 400 watts, I am trying to keep my electrical bill as low as I can considering this size of tank. Would 4 250 watt's be acceptable, the tank is 30" high, with sps,clams and an anenomie?

I was thinking that 3 or 4 x 400=1200/1600 watts versus 4x250=1000wts.

juststartingout, I am going to be using 4x250w over my 96x48x30... I am also going to be using T5s but my tank will be mostly LPS and some SPS and clams... I will have to place the SPS closer to the 250w but I don't plan on having too many...

yeah I just don't know if 250W will be good enough in that deep of a tank. I am using 1000W and I think it's just about right and my tank is 35" deep.

Your using a 1000w bulb jonathan?

Yup. Ushio 1000W 20K Se lamps.

This comment helped me make my mind up regarding my upcoming 700g reef tank next year. I am going to stretch it out longer than I was. I like the idea of open spaces.

cool :thumbsup:

Here are the pictures of the stand. It looks like it will be few more days to get this beast to
Sanjay (sorry buddy I could not yesterday and had to deal with few system's problems in town )
http://reefnest.com/general/57.jpg
It looks like Monday might be the day and is the day you are getting the tank too. Wish if we all can be there to take the stand, and tank in the same day. How about getting all the stuff you need between the tank and stand and we might do that in the same day since we can have few people over. You guys carry the stand and tank and I can be the camera man to share them with everybody in RC :)

aahhh...so THERE'S the beef!