What would be your ultimate Dream Tank?

[Jewel]

Aren't we always dreaming about our perfect tank, I am, Mine would be 10 ft long.2 ft wide and 20 inches deep, Closed Loop, 2 MP60s and 4 MP10s Bubble King skimmer,6 Radions,Big Ass Chiller,Reactors up the Whawzoo, 180 Sump, 150 Remote Fuge, 500 lbs of rock,In wall tank with a 500 square foot Fish Room, LPS, LPS, LPS and more LPS. Hey it's a dream, you can have anything you want. LOL

 

[Poseidon]

i just want one big enough to have a mermaid

 

[harleymike]

Living right beside the great barrier reef.

 

[benzzz]

Reef for me too. Told the wife another 10 or 11 yrs and we retire. Move to Australia and snorkel all day. She agreed to Florida lol.

 

[harleymike]

Reef for me too. Told the wife another 10 or 11 yrs and we retire. Move to Australia and snorkel all day. She agreed to Florida lol.

Nice.

 

[curiousphil]

Dreaming is fun!

My dream is an in-wall with a dedicated fish room on the other side.  6-8 ft tank, 3 feet deep minimum, approx 2 feet tall.  6x3x2 liikely, which comes in around 260 gals.  Would stock it with lots of SPS and select LPS as well as some big ass fish like a clown tang, full grown versions of my sailfin and regal tangs, yellow blotch rabbitfish, moorish idol.  Throw a couple of schools in there, problably an anthias school and either a chromis or threadfin cardinal school.  One rock pillar dedicated to housing an h. magnifica anenome on top, with two other large rock masses placed so that there is a channel of sorts running from the back right to front left of the tank.  500 lbs liverock, whatever I can't fit elegantly into the display will go into the sump.  Nice white sand, probably seafloor special, 2-3" deep.

Inside the fish room, which is ideally about 10x10 feet:  I'd run a T5 and MH combo system above the tank.  Would utilize a closed loop in the tank to blow water up through the rockwork, and have a surge tank on either side of the display tank that would fill up and dump into the tank in an alternating order  in addition to having MP60s inside the tank.  There would be a 4x2 foot fragtank along one wall, sitting above the 100-150 gallon sump.  Water change station and laundry tub next to that.  Dedicated DSB on the other side in a cube tank.  Big 5 foot tall external skimmer, chiller that vents outside, a couple of bigass reactors for GFO and pellets, doser and containers for two part.

Maybe a second small in-wall tank that's tied into the main system, sits inside a "picture frame," and serves as a species tank for a peacock mantis.  That would be badass.

 

[Jewel]

That would be amazing, and Lloyd you'd miss all this snow. LOL

 

[Duke]

8ft by 4ft by 3ft Peninsula with external overflow set for 30" water level with dual external wave boxes. No powerheads in the tank but enough extra glass so you can rock a nice slow 6" wave back and forth.

 

[Marz]

Right now...getting mine started...that's my dream tank damnit!

 

[Poseidon]

In all serious I want a 8ft corner "L" tank. 8ft each side.
But the inside of the L is my fish room and the outside the living room etc
30" tall, 30" wide
Large frag tank, all top of the line equipment and t5 lighting.

 

[KBennett]

I always wanted a pond style reef with glass sides. 

 

[AdInfinitum]

8ft by 4ft by 3ft Peninsula with external overflow set for 30\" water level with dual external wave boxes. No powerheads in the tank but enough extra glass so you can rock a nice slow 6\" wave back and forth.

Knock 6 inches off the height and that does it for me.  And of course made of acrylic.

Have you ever seen a tank with the extra glass height working before?  I know some Euro tanks are like that so no salt creep, lots of room for wave action etc. With the extra glass covered by the canopy.

I have toyed with the idea for my project tank.  It is 30 deep, I would prefer about 26 so I had been considering cutting it down or just leaving it but setting the overflow at 26.  If anyone has actually seen a tank like this in action let me know what you think.

 

[Duke]

i would go acrylic also, probably even have fastened seams and gaskets instead of bonding the acrylic. the extra height would suck for working in but it would be essential for the GIANTNESS of the wave im thinking... ;-) for the external wavebox i would just have a full c2c overflow 12" deep with 5 inches split off on each side each side dedicated to be the waveboxes and use wp40's or 60's inside the boxes. i think wave size would be dependant on how much you could slow the controller down. that reef surge you see in the ocean i think would be key to insane polyp extensions from SPS corals.

 

[AdInfinitum]

Keep the overflow to the middle 4ish feet of the tank so it isn't cutting of the end to end peak of the waves.  Help the harmonics.

 

[curiousphil]

Have you ever seen a tank with the extra glass height working before?  I know some Euro tanks are like that so no salt creep, lots of room for wave action etc. With the extra glass covered by the canopy.

I have toyed with the idea for my project tank.  It is 30 deep, I would prefer about 26 so I had been considering cutting it down or just leaving it but setting the overflow at 26.  If anyone has actually seen a tank like this in action let me know what you think.

I've kind of got this in my tank, by accident.  Drilled the holes for my overflow lower than I meant to.  Forgot to take something or other into account and when I installed the overflow box, it ended up putting the waterline down about 2-3" from the top of the glass.  You can see in my FTS photos that the waterline is always askew.  It allows me to get a nice big wave, I was bummed at first that my waterline was so low but now I'm thankful.

that reef surge you see in the ocean i think would be key to insane polyp extensions from SPS corals.

Agreed!  Definitely key for removing waste and debris from deep inside of colonies, too.

for the external wavebox i would just have a full c2c overflow 12\" deep with 5 inches split off on each side each side dedicated to be the waveboxes and use wp40's or 60's inside the boxes. i think wave size would be dependant on how much you could slow the controller down.

I think you are right that the wave size would be dependent on how much you can slow the controller down, I get the biggest wave out of my wavebox when it's on its slowest setting.  I'm curious if I can make an even bigger wave by hooking up the WP pump to my Arduino and using custom programming.  Your wave box plan sounds pretty awesome, I like it!  Sort of what I was talking about with surge tanks above, but those would be external to the tank.  I saw a guy on RC do a build like that, where he had one large tank above his display that would slowly fill and then a bulkhead would open (can't rememeber how he accomplished this part unfortunately) and flow into the display tank, like a giant wavebox.  I want to do that with alternating surges from left to right.

 

[Jewel]

(can't rememeber how he accomplished this part unfortunately)

That's easily accomplished using a float valve or plunger sorta like the water box on the toilet, I seen this too but only at one end. Pump the water up to an elevated tank, the water rises and pulls open the gate and the water rushes into the tank below, you could direct the flow to control the water it over flows into the sump that raises a float valve that activates a switch and it starts again.

 

[AdInfinitum]

Check out the big DT at the science centre.  They have an off centre acrylic dump box like you see at splash pads.  That system has been running forever.  Also has a large turf scrubber setup.

 

[BIGSHOW]

Check out the big DT at the science centre.  They have an off centre acrylic dump box like you see at splash pads.  That system has been running forever.  Also has a large turf scrubber setup.

I haven't been there for years, but it was pretty sweet to see when I went.  Very Sciencey

I think I am pretty close to my dream setup, except I would prefer to have a larger MAIN DT, something with a 10' length, 3' depth and 24" height.

 

[Pistol]

Dreaming is fun!

My dream is an in-wall with a dedicated fish room on the other side.  6-8 ft tank, 3 feet deep minimum, approx 2 feet tall.  6x3x2 liikely, which comes in around 260 gals.  Would stock it with lots of SPS and select LPS as well as some big ass fish like a clown tang, full grown versions of my sailfin and regal tangs, yellow blotch rabbitfish, moorish idol.  Throw a couple of schools in there, problably an anthias school and either a chromis or threadfin cardinal school.  One rock pillar dedicated to housing an h. magnifica anenome on top, with two other large rock masses placed so that there is a channel of sorts running from the back right to front left of the tank.  500 lbs liverock, whatever I can't fit elegantly into the display will go into the sump.  Nice white sand, probably seafloor special, 2-3\" deep.

Inside the fish room, which is ideally about 10x10 feet:  I'd run a T5 and MH combo system above the tank.  Would utilize a closed loop in the tank to blow water up through the rockwork, and have a surge tank on either side of the display tank that would fill up and dump into the tank in an alternating order  in addition to having MP60s inside the tank.  There would be a 4x2 foot fragtank along one wall, sitting above the 100-150 gallon sump.  Water change station and laundry tub next to that.  Dedicated DSB on the other side in a cube tank.  Big 5 foot tall external skimmer, chiller that vents outside, a couple of bigass reactors for GFO and pellets, doser and containers for two part.

Maybe a second small in-wall tank that's tied into the main system, sits inside a \"picture frame,\" and serves as a species tank for a peacock mantis.  That would be badass.

STOP dreaming about my tank!

 

[davesolo29]

I dream of my tank.  Just with perfect water parameters and full of healthy fish and thriving coral.


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