Another amazing tank video

[xtreme]

Nearly 20' long! Gorgeous Tank. I'm surprised I have never come across this before on the net.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_N3PqJCCQw&feature=player_embedded#

[ScubaSteve]

Gorgeous! But, oh my god, that isn't a hobby... that'd be a full time job/obsession...

I want one...

[whatcaneyedo]

That was a Reef Central tank of the month a while back. Its pretty cool to see everything in motion though.

February 2006 Tank of the Month
Pieter van Suijlekom's Reef Aquarium
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/totm/index.php

[kien]

jeezus josef and marie!!

"Each week 1500 liters of water is replaced with fresh artificial salt water."

:surprise:

[JDigital]

Wow.... :eek:

[Black Phantom]

I'm thinking I could do that at my place - step one, fill basement with salt water:lol:

[bigmac]

I'd better keep buying LottoMax/6-49 tickets!

[globaldesigns]

I have seen this one before. Call it the GrandDaddy of them all!

Imagine the costs to maintain

[lobsterboy]

yeah, that tank also had an aquarium portrait in Coral Magazine, 7 or 9 issues back I think.

really cool to see it move.

[lastlight]

You mean not everyone has gon back to view every last totm? I've done this multiple times! This tank and Atlantis aquariums are too massive and beautiful to comprehend!

[Delphinus]

I NEED to revisit, they're just all so very awesome that I have trouble remembering which one is which after a while!!

If I recall correctly, this is the one where the guy replaces his sand bed every 6 months so that it's all nice and white ALL the time? :lol: (Oh dear. A little patch of cyano over hier! RrrrRRRrrRRReplace ze zand at vunce!! {insert Dutch accent here - it's OK - I'm Dutch - I can make fun of my own accent can't I !!?})

Still - what a breathtaking tank. I'm torn. If I could afford the upkeep of a tank like that, odds are pretty good I could afford just to live near a beach somewhere near a REAL reef, and that would be a hard choice to make!!!

... Hmmm, actually, it wouldn't. Never mind. Nevertheless, what a spectacular tank. :)

[fkshiu]

The two craziest things about this tank that always struck me are:

1. "After two structural piles were hammered 19 meters into the ground to help support the weight of the 8000 kg tank". WTF??? 19 meters???? I thought I overbuilt my stand.

2. The shop that the baby is in sell fireplaces. WTF??? Fireplaces???? If I walked into this shop thinking to buy a fireplace, I'd walk out wanting a reef tank instead.

[muck]

"Each week 1500 liters of water is replaced with fresh artificial salt water."

:surprise:

Oh come on... thats only ~400 gallons a week. :razz:

[lobsterboy]

2. The shop that the baby is in sell fireplaces. WTF??? Fireplaces???? If I walked into this shop thinking to buy a fireplace, I'd walk out wanting a reef tank instead.

yeah thats true, the owner of the reef works there and wanted to be with his tank all the time.

[JDigital]

If I recall correctly, this is the one where the guy replaces his sand bed every 6 months so that it's all nice and white ALL the time? :lol:




In his TOTM profile, he says that he replaces it every few weeks.... :der:

[kien]

Oh come on... thats only ~400 gallons a week. :razz:

just thinking about that water change makes me want to.. :faint:

[fishytime]

If I remember correctly, the tank is stocked in zones....5' of Aussie corals, 5' of indo pacific etc....how could you get any work done with a tank like that to oggle??