suprax Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 I know I will get BS for posting a tank this size, but I would not have been able to do it without help from the people in the nano reef chat room. Special thanks to Fant. Oceanic 58 Gallon Reef Ready (36½ x 18½ x 21½) w/stand All-Glass 20 Gallon sump/refigium 2x 150w Ebo-Jagger Heaters MAG 700 Return Pump Maxi-Jet 900 All display tank lights in custom hood 2x 65w Custom Sea Life PC Ballast running 10,000k bulbs 2x 30w NO's running 03 Actinic Bulbs 20w NO for the refigium (I belive I will upgrade to a 32w PC) 150lbs Caribsea Special Grade Reef Sand 60lbs Gulf Rock I think thats just about everything... Clean up crew is comeing next week. Some Pics (I don't have the best camera in the world): A pic of my overflow. I'm useing a durso standpipe. This was takin right after I put the sand in without rinseing it. Got the silt out in about a week with 600 GPH of total floss filtering Just a view of where my tank is situated in My Ag Department's Classroom (they diden't pay for a cent) Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 lookin great ! is the tank at a school ? Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 O yea, i would probably at some more light if you intend to keep corals. Link to comment
My Alife 7 Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 That's very cool. I wish we had a tank like that while I was in school... Link to comment
Cam barr Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 yea that tank is cool im helping my science teacher set up a 300 gal that was donated it will all be fish tho Link to comment
NanoReefer53 Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 aww...all my bio teacher had was a crappy 29g freshwater with fake plants, neons, and angelfish that got ich. I offered to make it into a reef or a planted angelfish tank but she didn't want to spend the money. Link to comment
SLOreefer Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 at my school they have a marine biology dept. and they have a cold water tank so they collect stuff locally....i guess they have a permit or something... Link to comment
suprax Posted May 2, 2002 Author Share Posted May 2, 2002 Yeah, its at my school. They diden't pay for any of it though I have them in agreement to buy me bulbs and other little things here and there... Link to comment
gabe3eb Posted May 3, 2002 Share Posted May 3, 2002 Very nice, I am working on my AP Bio teacher. If we can get a grant then we can set the tank up... Got my fingers crossed. Gaber Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted May 3, 2002 Share Posted May 3, 2002 Cool SupraX, I'm glad to see you were finally able to get it started. Link to comment
Son Of Skyline Posted May 3, 2002 Share Posted May 3, 2002 That's a beautiful tank. I want one! I wish I had a tank like that in school....the closest thing I got was a very chilled and dark 60gal which we used to hatch salmon eggs and raise the fry. Link to comment
Fant Posted May 5, 2002 Share Posted May 5, 2002 Nice job suprax. Its lookin good. Hmm.. that room looks familiar. Link to comment
iFish Posted May 5, 2002 Share Posted May 5, 2002 Did you buy the tank at an LFS? Or where on the internet? Link to comment
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