480 monster build (1 Viewer)

[Shanereef]

I have waited a long time to be able to have a dedicated fish room to house a monster tank. Well that time has finally come. With the new renovations about to take place at the house and the plans set for the fish room. I have decided to do a 480g in wall tank. Tank is acrylic and measure 8x4x2 with 1in. It has angled corner overflows. I have not decided if I want to do a fish only aggressive tank or a reef tank mainly LPS.

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[webster1234]

That's gonna be awesome. Who built the tank?

 

[Mark L.]

Nice! Can't wait to see this build. I vote for a full reef.

 

[oneasianguy]

Looks really nice. Can't wait for an updated picture.

 

[Reefahholic]

Very nice! My wallet is hurting already.

 

[MimicOcto8]

Wow awesome build this will be. May I request a mixed reef? They're beautiful but even more enchanting in massive aquariums like yours

 

[Clownfish Chris]

My vote is also for reef. I'm a stick guy myself though with only marginal success. You could grow some massive colonies in this!

 

[Shanereef]

I think I a leaning towards a reef tank. I have never really tried sps only lps corals. Are they more difficult than keeping good parameters?


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[FarmerTy]

What a beautiful tank! I'm green with envy!

I'd do a mixed reef tank too! Super large SPS tanks are stunning but it'll take forever to look full and one wrong slip and you'll be staring at a while lot of nothing in the tank. Mix it up with softies, tons of LPS, and a couple SPS and you got a winner there IMO.

 

[Reefahholic]

I vote for a mixed reef too. Too many SPS and one thing could kill the whole tank. If you have softies mixed in, at least some corals will live.

 

[webster1234]

I vote for mixed reef as well. If you want to see a great example of an easy to maintain mixed reef, come take a look at mine. I've got some colonies the size of basket balls. It is the same length as yours but 36" wide instead of 48". I took some pictures for the TOTM. I just haven't uploaded them yet.

 

[MimicOcto8]

You won't have any mess ups. If you bought a tank this size you are more than likely on top of all your maintenance and husbandry. With such a large volume of water you'd have to purposely sabotage your system. I use to run a 1000g system. It was bulletproof because I kept on it until the day I had to move out here to Texas. You'll have great success with this tank and I'm jealous.

 

[Shanereef]

I definitely like the lips, plus nems. It must be the live motion you get with them. Mixed reef it is! Now have to plan on lighting it up. Which route, t5, led or MH? Cost vs electric bill, [emoji15]


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[malira]

What an awesome tank. I like mixed reefs too but............predators or non-reef safe fish are gorgeous. I would love a tank full of trigger fish and angles.

 

[webster1234]

I started with LEDs but went to T5s after I didn't get the growth I was wanting. The T5's did wonders for me. Others get killer growth with LEDs. It just takes a lot of them IMO. Now that ATI has the dimmable T5's, I get the sunrise sunset effect just like the LEDs (which is why I went LED in the first place). The big cost with T5's is changing the bulbs every year. The electricity cost between the two is negligible. Your big electrical cost will be running the pumps and 1 hp chiller you're gonna need.

 

[PSXerholic]

I have waited a long time to be able to have a dedicated fish room to house a monster tank. Well that time has finally come. With the new renovations about to take place at the house and the plans set for the fish room. I have decided to do a 480g in wall tank. Tank is acrylic and measure 8x4x2 with 1in. It has angled corner overflows. I have not decided if I want to do a fish only aggressive tank or a reef tank mainly LPS.

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Awesome !!!!!!

I really like the tank dimensions, have to say that. ;-)
Who build this tank for you?
And if allowed, price range of this monster?

-Andre

 

[steveb]

we don't alter any URL's here (other than those that would violate the forum rules) - feel free to post, we are all about the exchange of ideas, vendors, etc... Curious myself...

 

[Shanereef]

I bought it from a friend that lives in Dallas. He had it for a about a year and broke it down, too much for the wife. He polished it up and it looks basically new again. I guess one of the pros to an acrylic tanks. Not sure where he bought it, but I got it a pretty sweet deal.


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[Shanereef]

One option on lights is I can run two 48 2 bulb t5 on back and five radions in the center. Possible add two more 48 t5 in the front. Would I still have shimmer from the leds? Second I could also do two 48in eight bulb ATI fixtures. Could I get away with two 36in fixtures maybe?


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[Lord Spice]

Do mixed reef, im currently running 4 radions and im going to be adding some t5 to my 400 so i will let you know about the shimmer.

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