DIY Concrete Aquarium 5,000 gallon - Anderson Family Reef

[Seancj]

The Amazonas 960 were my first choice and are still in the running. I did see that Andrew has added one or two 960's to his 17,000 gallon for a little extra blue "pop". I hope he does a review on them sometime.

 

[dca22anderson]

Plumbing in some holding tanks and may have grabbed some fish too…

 

[dca22anderson]

Ready for some plumbing! 65 gal for fish holding or whatever needs a spot… LOL

 

[dca22anderson]

Cleaning station who’s up next…???

Unicorns looking shiny… viewing panel not so much LOL!!

 

[Bpp124987]

Amazing you’re getting that kind of coral growth with 1.0 phos. I thought high phos inhibited skeleton growth. With lower phos you might go broke paying for alk and calcium supplementation!

I have great results from lanthanum dosed into skimmer. No fish loses. Maybe try at lower dose for a while?

 

[dca22anderson]

Amazing you’re getting that kind of coral growth with 1.0 phos. I thought high phos inhibited skeleton growth. With lower phos you might go broke paying for alk and calcium supplementation!

I have great results from lanthanum dosed into skimmer. No fish loses. Maybe try at lower dose for a while?

That's a good idea... may run it through the bigger skimmer instead too... Thanks for your feedback!

 

[dca22anderson]

New round grow 600watt LED light for the Fuge…

Got some SPS from Dr. Neil that I need to put in the display! The colony directly under the left light is an “after party”… it’s huge…

Nitrates coming out of the sulphur de nitrator are at 5… getting there…

 

[dca22anderson]

Plans for this weekend:​

4 tank holding system finish (40 cube, 45 & 45 low boy frag tanks and 65 gal fish)​

-finish drain lines
-plumb returns
-plumb in pump
-fill and test

Acro colony placement in show​

- move low light corals down
- zip tie hammers, frogspawn to pillars
- glue frags to strategic spots
- clean up corals on floor

 

[Bpp124987]

That's a good idea... may run it through the bigger skimmer instead too... Thanks for your feedback!

Good luck! By the way, the most cost effective lanthanum, which is cheap enough to begin with, is to buy the one gallon two little fishies _concentrate_. It mixes up to about a decade worth of still very very concentrated lanthanum

 

[dca22anderson]

Good luck! By the way, the most cost effective lanthanum, which is cheap enough to begin with, is to buy the one gallon two little fishies _concentrate_. It mixes up to about a decade worth of still very very concentrated lanthanum

Good to know!!

 

[dca22anderson]

It’s running! Got to tighten up the top tanks drain bulkhead and it’s all done!

 

[dca22anderson]

It’s live… all holding tanks are rolling!!

 

[Sleeping Giant]

looks great

 

[Devisissy]

Just stumbled on this, and I am in awe. I mean, that thing is huge. You my man are crazy, but I am digging it.

 

[dca22anderson]

looks great

Thanks for checking it out!!

Just stumbled on this, and I am in awe. I mean, that thing is huge. You my man are crazy, but I am digging it.

Thank you too!! I have lost my mind but I love it!!

 

[Bpp124987]

Looks great.

Display looks like it needs more medium size fish

You ever get any money back from that crook?!

 

[dca22anderson]

Looks great.

Display looks like it needs more medium size fish

You ever get any money back from that crook?!

Agreed, I need some medium and smalls… they all turned into bigs!!

No, still patching up my filtration to fill the holes in what he didn’t build.

 

[dca22anderson]

Few top down pictures from last night…

 

[dca22anderson]

So I grabbed an old favorite at the LFS - Fiji yellow leather and Fiji trumpet coral…

Bottom of the Bayer bucket after a 30 min dip…

Bottom of the fresh tank water after rinse…

 

[Bpp124987]

Oh classic! I had a yellow leather in the early 2000s and haven’t seen them this decade - all (including my specimen) have the green tips on a beige body.

Sure do miss the yellow gold elegans!