I have been reading about it on *somewhere else.* (Don't ask me where, I don't want anymore sharks after me.)
Save a fish - if it was cloud for 2 weeks, I agree I would be a little nervous, but that happens in nature right? He lives in Arizona anyway.
Here are some details:
I have four of the 10 inch tubes that are about 2 feet off of the surface of the water.
I built a bump out in the wall to hide the extension tubes.
The tank is 60 x 36 x 32 all glass. There is no support in the middle to block the light, and when I made the canopy I made the top open so that there were no obstructions.
I have a 6in deep sand bed and approximately 150lbs of hand made live rock (ARF Style). I went with the hand made rock so that I could make the structure as functional as possible but yet as reef friendly as I could. I have a friend that gave me some live sand from is reef to seed my tank.
I covered the top of my tank for 6 months with a shade cloth to keep the bulk of the sun out of the tank so that it could cycle (the best thing I have ever done and the hardest).
Once the tank had cycled I added a small protein skimmer (Turbo Floater) now I only use the skimmer for 8 hours a week and I do a 5% water change a week (Automated). I have one large 3/4 horse pump that runs a large rectangle spray bar type system located at the top of the tank. This creates a massive chaotic water flow that can only be described as (Intense).
No supplements are added to the water at all. The water changes take care of all the issues of water quality. And the extreme water flow combined with the open top takes care of the gas exchange and provides great glitter lines.
I have at least 50 types of SPS corals and five large clams (all farmed). The tank was setup as an experiment to prove that I could have a natural based reef tank that didn't need all that techno stuff and that would not take anything from the real reefs of the world.
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