the new 17,000 gallon reefzilla thread

[spazz]

sorry for the long pause in posting. its been totaly nuts for both bill and i. there has not been alot done to the tank lately because the house needs to be bottoned up and heat running so bill can start the work on the tank. it needs to be surfaced and preped for the epoxy paint to be applied to it. then the front pannles can be set into place. here is some pics bill sent me of the house. its getting bigger all the time. also for you car guys here is a couple more of bills collector cars for his new garage.
also there may be some changes inthe future for this system. the current plan for 4-5 24" diam skimmers that are 7 ft tall may have changed to 2-12 ft tall skimmers that are 36" in diam. i am working with bill to see if we can design a skimmer that will do what we want them to do. this is no ordnary system and bill will have such a huge bio load that the skimmers will need to be super effecient to keep up with the needs of the system. everything is still up in the air yet and bill is taking things one step at a time. so these skimmer sizes may change again before the tank ever sees water.

[spazz]

[tashier]

Wow, the place is looking great. The car collection is unbelievable

[Twitterbait]

Crap that is a big place! i like the yellow car

[markrxdi]

wow

[ZEKESTER]

stucco wiil look good on that home

[rppvt]

Spazz, do you plan to run Ozone through those skimmers?

[rppvt]

PS. have you had a chance to use that outhouse? ooh, baby!

[spazz]

Originally Posted by rppvt

Spazz, do you plan to run Ozone through those skimmers?

yes bill has a huge ozone generator that he plans to hook up to his skimmers. but im still not sure what size the skimmers will be.

[marinelife]

This is going to be a great tank!!!

[Energy]

As efficent as those skimmers are ozone probably won't be neccesary. I have a VOLCANO which is the same as the beast bill is making and it easily keeps my ORP in the required range without ozone. A probperly skimmed tank can easily go without the addition of ozone. The amount he would need to be effective on his tank could also be deadly to his family if anything happened to the generator and the ozone escaped into the house.

[spazz]

another update...........


here is the tank from the front side.



the house

[REEFSTOCK]

Let me be the first to say, "ah gla bla ...dddrrrrooolll".

[spazz]

Originally Posted by REEFSTOCK

Let me be the first to say, "ah gla bla ...dddrrrrooolll".

well that is a new thing to see if skimmers will remove drool from the system water. with all these people drooling over bills tank there might be a polution problem. ha ha ha ha ha

[tashier]

That is going to be awsome. You are seriously going to be swimming in the tank to do any maintenance. Is it in the basement?