Behemoth planted tank
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hughitt1 said:Awesome workWould be really cool to see how they comminity interact in such a large setup.
This is the really cool thing about this tank, much more than the scape itself.
You don't ever realize this till you get to such large scales, I've worked on this idea for a long time with smaller massive tanks, in the 200-500 gallon ranges. We finally get to scale things up a bit now.
Schooling behaviors are very neat in large tanks with diverse populations.
They stay in their own seperate schools by species.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Dang rich people...
LOL
Awsome tank though! I was debating something like a 150XH but at 30" tall I wasnt sure how the heck I would get in there to plant and trim, etc. That big tank there you might as well just throw on some scuba gear!
:dive2:
LOL
Awsome tank though! I was debating something like a 150XH but at 30" tall I wasnt sure how the heck I would get in there to plant and trim, etc. That big tank there you might as well just throw on some scuba gear!
:dive2:
30" ain't too bad, you would likely do best to either leave the upper portion open, or build it up with a rock reef like wall, or a stack of wood with pieces jutting out, add some Anubias, narrow leaf java fern in there, maybe Bolbitus, and have crypts or a white sand foregreound, pretty simple, easy to care for, no need for nuke lighting, and would look very nice.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Regards,
Tom Barr
blackwolfXKAV said:i guess your into big things, wait till you get the bill....
Not his house. He gets to give the bill, not pay it. lol
it seems like you dont have much soil in the front..... how many inches in the front and the back?
About 1-2" max, all the tanks I do are that way, I'm not really interested in viewing soil, I'd rather see plants.
Redid the scape as the client's taste finally changed for the better.
He gave it a lot of thought and went with another plan that was more suitable to the materials used, namely an odd out of place tree and a large petrified rock that was much too close to the front.
Pick axed a 120lb petrified log into a nice angled cut so we had 2 nice matching pieces. Lots of hard manual labor goes into such a tank if you want to know
Spent about 20 more hours of work on the tank after SCAPE(S Cal Aquatic plant society) left.
I organized some plant groups better, added 100 Crypt balansae from Arizona Aquatic Gardens. Thanks Peter! AAG took good care of me for the order.
The tank as as messed up as it could have been due to a number of things, but with simplification, good materials, ideas and work, the tank as back in a mere 3 days. :thud:
I reduced the lighting at the surface from 800 umol down to 600 and run the MH's 6 instead of 14 hours (did not listen to me and paid the price). Most anyone that knows me knows I'd never suggest much more than 10 and never for MH's.
CO2 was messed up, redid the entire system, made my old style manifolds, redid the lines, added ADA beetle bubble counters(5 of them), Added the venturi mazzii's, this is the first tank to use them for CO2 as far as I know and they really blast mist unluike anything else possibly can at this scale.
That's an amazingly effective device.
The room itself is the first pick of designers such as Verschee, Heilfinger, and Louie Batan, Louie got the room, it'll look quite neat later
Still a construction zone for a few more weeks.
Regards,
Tom Barr
Redid the scape as the client's taste finally changed for the better.
He gave it a lot of thought and went with another plan that was more suitable to the materials used, namely an odd out of place tree and a large petrified rock that was much too close to the front.
Pick axed a 120lb petrified log into a nice angled cut so we had 2 nice matching pieces. Lots of hard manual labor goes into such a tank if you want to know
Spent about 20 more hours of work on the tank after SCAPE(S Cal Aquatic plant society) left.
I organized some plant groups better, added 100 Crypt balansae from Arizona Aquatic Gardens. Thanks Peter! AAG took good care of me for the order.
The tank as as messed up as it could have been due to a number of things, but with simplification, good materials, ideas and work, the tank as back in a mere 3 days. :thud:
I reduced the lighting at the surface from 800 umol down to 600 and run the MH's 6 instead of 14 hours (did not listen to me and paid the price). Most anyone that knows me knows I'd never suggest much more than 10 and never for MH's.
CO2 was messed up, redid the entire system, made my old style manifolds, redid the lines, added ADA beetle bubble counters(5 of them), Added the venturi mazzii's, this is the first tank to use them for CO2 as far as I know and they really blast mist unluike anything else possibly can at this scale.
That's an amazingly effective device.
The room itself is the first pick of designers such as Verschee, Heilfinger, and Louie Batan, Louie got the room, it'll look quite neat later
Still a construction zone for a few more weeks.
Regards,
Tom Barr
