My Tank Pics

[bheron]

I am planning on putting together a seperate post on my experience thus far. In Oct 2002 after my tank was obliterated by Copper I found this site. I tore down in June 03 and started over. I have everything to thank this site for how my tank is starting out today.
I have a 75gal that will mainly be a FOWLR plus some simple inverts and maybe a hardy coral or two. I'm not in to the tank-full-o-corals look. Maybe sometime down the road - its an aquired taste?
Anyway, after getting all the plumbing up and running, and the tank filled with 100% RODI, I threw in 100lbs of Southdown (after the tank was filled as you can see the storm in the first pic). This was in Dec 03.
In early January I put in 100 lbs of LR (Fiji, Kaelini, and mostly Marshall Island). It cycled in 4 weeks. In mid Feb I introduced my cleaner crew. Then a month later my first two fish - 2 ocellaris.
75 gal
25 gal sump and fuge
110W PC light
130W Flourescent
2 150W heaters
2 Powerheads
Mage 12 return pump from fuge
I'll give more details b/c I could go on and on. Just wanted to post some pics for feedback....

 

[bheron]

First one - with the southdown....

 

[bheron]

Cleaner crew put in.
I'm sure there will be some interesting feedback on my choice of tank location. This was made way back, pre-newbie even, and I'm forced to live with the choice. I've done a ton of work to ensure its stabilty with various redundant systems. That said, it looks cools but its location and layout makes it a real challenge

 

[bheron]

And finally, with the two ocellaris. I've had a couple bumps on the way which I can go into detail later. But, thanks primarily to SWF.com, its been pretty successful thus far!!!
Again, I'm going for more of a less cluttered, less corals and some nice colorful fish look here. So i'm absolutely thrilled as it is now!!!
Enjoy! All feedback welcome!!!

 

[pacopetty]

Looks great!
Must be a b#tch to put the rock in and clean.

 

[wester97]

is the tank suspended on the wall?

 

[stapler]

I think it looks great there....but it would be a bummer to have that tank fall. I hope you did your homework on supporting that tank!
Keep us updated with pics!:yes:

 

[bheron]

Thanks for the feedback!
Here's some more detail. I did my homework to enable me to sleep at night!!

 

[bheron]

PS - i dont have the number on me, but I correctly calculated the weight (water, sand, rock, tank, lights, fish!) to be @1000lbs.

 

[beaslbob]

awesome. think you are correct on the weight. As i remember water is 8-9 pounds per gallon. then add the weight of the tank and rocks.
Again awesome. a suspended tank.

 

[bheron]

thanks! yea, i used about 9 to be safe. its a nice accomplishment but...never again!!! :nervous: