700g Sunlit Tank

[calireefer]

This is my dream tank

 

[sprayin70]

Awesome tank bro. Thanks for posting!

 

[purplegorilla]

Amazing....didn't really read the post..But anyone know how long the lights last? Is it 4 pm. to 8 pm?

 

[sagent3000]

thats INSANE

 

[derek_s]

Awesome. I read most of the post... All I have to say is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$^10

 

[stroid]

yeah this is sick what an awesome tank

 

[derek_s]

The coldwater is awesome. If it wasn't so difficult to obtain the livestock, I'd probably look into that more.

 

[calireefer]

purpleGORILLA;164253 wrote: Amazing....didn't really read the post..But anyone know how long the lights last? Is it 4 pm. to 8 pm?

More like 8 am to 8 pm in the summer. You should read the post, very interesting. He's also using a 10 kw solar system to offset his reef tank and koi pond.

Bleedingthought;164306 wrote: That's nice. This is what I used to feel was my "dream" tank: http://oregonreef.com/">http://oregonreef.com/</a>

Make sure you check out the cold water reef too: [IMG]http://oregonreef.com/sub_coldwater.htm">http://oregonreef.com/sub_coldwater.htm</a>[/QUOTE]

That was a nice tank. I read somewhere that it crashed. :sad:

 

[calireefer]

Here's another of my favorites. I'm in the planning stages of moving up to a custom 150g Starphire braceless next January, modeled after some of these.

 

[calireefer]

Bleedingthought;164352 wrote: The main one did. He cleaned the skimmers and went on a trip. The skimmers were working to well and kept overflowing while his top kept dumping fresh water into the system. He lost most of his SPS and I believe a lot of fish. It's still up, though. I think he's working on bringing it back to full glory.

The cold water reefs weren't affected, as far as I know.

Wow! that sucks. I guess the lesson is to have your skimmer hooked up to something that will shut it down before it drains too much of your tank.
I have kept my tanks skimmerless for the past 11 years, but I just decided to add one and I was thinking of this very problem. I travel a lot and need to come up with a way to shut down the skimmer before it overflows the collection jug. I think I might get one of the MRC wast collectors.

 

[calireefer]

Bleedingthought;164381 wrote: Which one? There's a lot of them.

oops! I'm looking at the 200g AGE with the pvc bottom and glass sides.
Seventh post down. Same footprint, 60x30, but only 20in high. For a total of 155.8g.
I'm looking at having a built in external wave box as well as a closed loop and 2 external overflows on the far back corners of the tank.

 

[dannybradley]

What a great build.

Anyone else notice the pallet of MRC stuff on page 8?

 

[calireefer]

Top of the line all the way.