The Reef Tanks Featured Tank!!!!

[PJ]

Originally Posted by tankgirl2

I've posted a zillion pics of this tenuis - it's so darn photogenic that every pic is nice. One more of it...

Awesome picture Tankgirl2. You're right, that Tenuis IS very photogenic.

We'll call it the SuperModel of the reef tank!!



PJ

[jgalafa]

Thanks for the eye candy TG !!!! Your tank is looking great! I only hope and dream my tank can look that great in the future. I'm upgrading to 250W 10K MH on saturday, and I'm in the process of buying a calcium reactor, Kalk rector is just not keeping up with the tank. I'll send some pics your way after the upgrades.

[tankgirl2]

Thanks, PJ!! Yeah, that's a sweet coral. That one was in awful shape when I bought it. Here's a pic of that coral when I first bought it - I'm the only fool who would buy a coral in such bad shape.

[tankgirl2]

oops - here it is. (I pushed the wrong button). Pretty grim, huh?


Hi Juan, Too cool about the new lights!! Can't wait to see the pics!!! Nah, I don't see my tank that way, but I have been dumb-lucky with all my tanks. When I've made mistakes the tank has been forgiving.

[Melix]

Beautiful! I love walk-around tanks, mostly for the aquascaping. It has to be pretty tough to make a reef look nice from all sides without just cluttering it up. Congrats.

[Melix]

Oh yeah, gotta say that I love arches in the rockwork.

[tankgirl2]

Hi Melix! Thanks!
Yeah, it was sort of stupifying - how much harder it was than a one-sided tank. Part of the difficulty, though, was getting the acros up close enough to the 250W metal halides. Plus, in a regular tank, you can tier the rocks and corals (which looks really good), but I had to have enough space on both sides to get into the tank, so there wasn't enough room to stairstep the rocks down.

A point came (after a year) when it just didn't matter enough to be worth trying to change it (again). Moving rocks with tongs while standing on top of a ladder was exhausting - I kept dinging the acrylic, too, and then had to spend hours trying to buff the scratches out.

We have a 600 lb piano that's not on casters and I've moved that across the house a dozen times - basically a matter of backing up to get a running start then running and throwing my body against the piano which moves it about an inch - repeat until it's where you want it. I'd rather do that any day, than attempt another aquascape refinement on this tank.

[reefworried124]

Your tank is truly marvelous! Can I scuba dive in your tank?

[tankgirl2]

Thank you, RW124!! Hah! No need to scuba since you can just walk around it. I'm curious about your name; are you worried about your own tank or the world's reefs? It occurs to me that a measure of worry makes a good tank owner, so I'll bet you're a great reefkeeper!

I'm curious, too - if you have a phosphate test kit, I'd love to find out what the phosphate levels are in Morro Bay waters? Catalina has really high phosphate levels, so I wonder if Morro Bay does too.

Also, speaking of worried; I think there must be a limit on the amount of rock that can be adequately blown off in a tank. I know my tank's 400+ lbs must exceed that limit. My rock is the typical highly porous rock and most of the detritus sludge is inside the rocks. Even though I spend a few hours every week trying to blow detritus out of the holes in the rock, I can only reach the outer rocks, of course. Scary to think how much I can't get at - and how much that amount increases over time.

[fchidsey]

That is Great. I love the three sided display. we are going attempt this soon. You have put the tank together very nicely and is a joy to look at. I thought the aqua scaping looked great.

Congradulations

Fred

[Fly Guy]

Beautiful tank!! I love the walk around. I couldnt imagine having to use tongs to place EVERYTHING on the bottom 1/3rd of the tank. Some of those colors on your macro shots are AMAZING.

Congrats

[motorslave]

Wow this is an old thread! I wonder what ever happened to tankgirl?

Robert

[motorslave]

This was one of the first tanks I really liked when I came to TRT and inspired me to get into the hobby even more.

Robert

[jenajet]

Congrats TG2. Awesome tank!

[Sophie's mom]

AWESOME! You really dedicate yourself to your tank. Good Job!