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fencer
09-24-2009, 11:21 PM
Here is a tank that would make anybody green with envy. Someday it will go for auction....This is 72 feet long. Each cell is 2m x 1m x 1m (= 500 US Gal). This unit is contiguous. Your 5in tang would have to make a day trip to cross it. I saw it filled last day to check for leaks and dumped. I believe it each cell can be separated. Imagine the water change in this thing.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr330/fencer07/Ultra%20Test/DSCN5221.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr330/fencer07/Ultra%20Test/DSCN5222.jpg

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr330/fencer07/Ultra%20Test/DSCN5226.jpg
lobsterboy
09-24-2009, 11:33 PM
thats pretty sick, is it for an insitution ? or public aquarium ?
subman
09-25-2009, 12:51 AM
is that the reasearch council?
karazy
09-25-2009, 01:07 AM
ill take 8 :lol:
lobsterboy
09-25-2009, 02:40 AM
imagine the power heads you would need
karazy
09-25-2009, 02:56 AM
imagine the power heads you would need

im guessing 50-60 vortechs would do the trick
lobsterboy
09-25-2009, 02:58 AM
i was thinking about 100, haha, i wonder if they would give a discount. :lol:
karazy
09-25-2009, 03:17 AM
i was thinking about 100, haha, i wonder if they would give a discount. :lol:

im sure they would. you could do four on the back of every section, then a bunch on the sides:lol:
sharuq1
09-25-2009, 05:32 AM
What on earth are they going to put in there?
lobsterboy
09-25-2009, 05:38 AM
What on earth are they going to put in there?

imagian a school of chromis, 100 of them. just chillin.
fencer
09-25-2009, 07:07 AM
At 6000 gal and a 10% water change you would have to put 4 pails of salt per week. If your using zeo or ultra pretty much 1/2 a case per day. Lighting 3 x 400 watt x 12 sections or 16 T5 x 12 sections. You also have to circ it 8 x the volume = 48000gal/hr. Just think if you pulsed a wave from one end to the other the size of wave you can generate. Oh you probably have to reinforce the basement floor with rebar. Thnik of all the canreefers you have to call to haul it into the basement.
lobsterboy
09-25-2009, 07:10 AM
think about how much trouble i would be in if i came home with that. :razz:
Boomboy
09-25-2009, 01:06 PM
hahah i wouldnt able to bring it home, its bigger than my home :lol::lol: