Our Crazy upgrade to a 450 gallon display!

[reeferwanabe]

I drilled a hole through my exterior wall to dispose old sw.

~Matt

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

The last 24 hours have been both productive but also EXHAUSTING! We were up till 3 am this morning pulling coral, fish, and snails from our old tank. Then got up at 8 to drain and move the old one so that we could pick up and move the new one to the same spot. Our corals were bigger than we realized! Huge! We have coral everywhere and our fish are in our frag tank. Here are some pictures:

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[reeferwanabe]

Wow, Thats a tall tank! Looks like you'll be scuba diving to place corals. Looking forward to see it up and running.

~Matt

 

[Baldguy]

Don't think I've ever seen a tank 4 ft tall. A long pair of tongs or hold your breath and go in head first?

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

We might be letting our girls go for a swim to place things...lol.

 

[hoopsdaddy]

did you ask Santa for a snorkel for Christmas?

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

@hoopsdaddy wrote:

Lol!!!!!!! I'll have to pull one out of my swimming pool supplies!

 

[K_Red_Raider]

This is going to look great! And that is the tallest tank that I have ever seen

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

Today we cleaned out the tank. You know your tank is big when your kids beg to go in it so you send them in to clean it up!

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My husband is working on plumbing the tank now.


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[Joestepdaddy]

Wow! Go big or go home! In your case y'all went big at home!

 

[mwilk19]

Erika,
What are you planning on lighting it with? I don't know that I've ever seen a home aquarium that deep.

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

We have 3 - 400 watt halides to light it.


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[ERIKATHORNBURG]

We are filling!!!

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[ERIKATHORNBURG]

Tank is now half full. Water mixing station is coming along. Just need to hard plumb saltwater pump to sump once we get it in place and plumb pump to auto top off from freshwater.

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[melev]

Progress!!!

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

While we wait on the next 150 gallons to mix we figured we would add the 220 lbs of CaribSea Aragon-Alive Fiji Pink sand....Now the tank is FROTHY!

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[ERIKATHORNBURG]

My husband is wearing his EAT-SLEEP-REEF shirt but has decided the SLEEP part isn't applicable to this huge project so he X'd it out. Lol!!

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[ERIKATHORNBURG]

Does anyone know where to get acrylic rods to use as rock structure supports?


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[Mike R]

you can try regal plastics in Irving. Royal ln., just south of 635

 

[ERIKATHORNBURG]

@Mike R wrote:

Ok. That's 50 minutes from us though.


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