My 420 Gallon Display

[NanCrab]

I can imagine putting a canopy on a 450g tank could get a little tricky!

 

[FutureInterest]

So the tank is situated in an alcove where it's hard to get to the back. Since it's a mechanical lift canopy... I have to install square tubular supports to the back of the canopy that will connect to the linear actuators. In order to get it in position for that we created these temporary scaffolds to hold the canopy in place.

The canopy and stand will be skinned with something interesting soon... It won't look this bad when I'm done.

Next... I put on my swim gear, get in the tank and connect the four tubes...

 

[Eric_n_Ga]

Cool cool .

 

[NanCrab]

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Looking good!! It will be beautiful when it is completed!

 

[jrhunter0000]

Following this beast!

 

[Dmitri]

Awesome progress! Love your pictures with updates!

 

[viethluu]

that is a lot of work !! nice set up though

 

[Tanster2]

Dude your aquascape looks fantastic. Going to be an amazing tank when it's up and running.

 

[FutureInterest]

It's particularly hard to stock fish at this time so its been challenging getting the ones I want. I picked a bunch of them up from a guy out in kennesaw that had to close his restaurant due to the current crisis.

So currently I have:
Copperband butterly - first resident. Eats like a pig and is an aptasia assassin.
Yellow tang- no tail on her... it got bitten off by a puffer according to the previous owner
Purple tang
Mata tang
Vlamingi tang - awesome streamers on this guy.
Tomoni tang
Blonde naso tang
Kole tang
Foxface
7 very pretty fairy wrasses - I forget what they're called.
Melanarus wrasse
I'm looking to add a large school of anthias. I've been looking for longfin or sailfin anthias. Relatively hard to find though even before this... I'll just be patient.

Corals are doing great in there. The light is different from my other systems so I'm acclimating them to it slowly.

For light I'm using 3 400 watt metal halides, 4 radion g5s, 8 t5s and 4 reefbright uv/blue.

For flow I'm using 4 MP 60s, and 2 jebao crossflows.

I've got most of my sticks in there, half of my euphyllia, and a few montis. I'll get some pics up as soon as the soundproofing material comes in for the canopy and stand skin comes in cause its not in presentation stage yet. Shipping coming from China is super slow right now though... :jin:

 

[USMC Reefer]

Got to see this thing in person. This will 100% be a tank of the year contender on any forum hands down with alittle growing time.

 

[FutureInterest]

Time to share a few update pics. Tried this panoramic photo option on my pixel for my tank shot. It's hard to photograph everything at once with blues on as it seems to all turn green at greater than 6 feet away from the tank. Also, it still looks very green Eve with the orange filter on. At some point I'd like to find time to break out the dslr but... not today.

 

[FutureInterest]

Here's a full tank shot with halides and t5s on.

 

[FutureInterest]

Finally got the sound dampening outer skin for the canopy and stand. Going to try to apply it sometime soonish...

 

[FutureInterest]

I ended up integrating a lot more shelf rock and am 95% happy with the rockwork....

 

[ActiveAngel]

Looks awesome Jin!!! Can’t wait to see it in person someday

 

[FutureInterest]

Just messing around with my phone settings... Thought it looked interesting enough to post how it looks in b/w.

 

[FutureInterest]

This is a closer shot with the left 1/4 of the tank.

 

[ZapataInc]

This is a closer shot with the left 1/3 of the tank.

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This tank I beautiful

 

[saltlife]

WOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DiefsReef]

This is a closer shot with the left 1/4 of the tank.

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This is a beutiful tank! I cant beleive this was just brought up at the end of march.