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EMSREEF

02-11-2012, 09:25 AM

500 gallon acrylic aquarium [96 x 48 x 25]

300 gallon rubbermaid pond

100 gallon rubbermaid sump

30 gallon frag tank

lights

EVOLUTION LED 3 - 200 WATT 2G FIXTURES

live rock

approximately 400 pounds

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led sump lighting
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with the lights on

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just the white lights

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blues and whites

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EMSREEF

02-11-2012, 09:43 AM

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300 saltwater pond

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larryandlaura

02-11-2012, 09:48 AM

Amazing tank can't wait to see it stocked!

woods4542000

02-11-2012, 10:11 AM

Love the pond!

creefer

02-11-2012, 10:48 AM

That's just awesome! Love the pond idea. Very cool!

jimsflies

02-11-2012, 11:35 AM

Wow...

binford4000

02-11-2012, 02:33 PM

Wow...

couldn't have said it better !!!!

MizTanks

02-11-2012, 05:35 PM

WOW! I have never seen a build such as this. The plumbing alone boggles my mind :hypnotized:

Heidi

02-14-2012, 08:40 PM

I love the pond! My kids would just love that! I would have to stock it with stuff they could "pet" :fish2: What are your stocking plans for the 500? That is a great sized tank! Thanks for sharing with us and welcome!

Heidi

demonclownfish

02-15-2012, 05:33 AM

i think a pink tail trigger would look great in the 500 if your doing a reef or FOWLR :)

woods4542000

02-15-2012, 07:10 AM

I think we need more pics :-)

EMSREEF

02-15-2012, 10:16 AM

i'll get more pics this week and post them....still on the hunt for our missing camera and pics with an iphone under led's do it no justice.

current stock list in the 500g reef

1 - 9" red sea sailfin tang
1 - 9" hippo tang
1 - 4 - 5" orange shoulder tang
1 - 3 - 4" powder brown tang
1 - 3" yellow tang

3 - pajama cardinals [picking up another 6 this week]
1 pair of breeding banggai cardinals

12 - blue green chromis [picking up another 10 this week]

1 - coral beauty
1 - rusty angel

1 - emerald "sea grass" wrasse
1 - mystery wrasse
1 - cleaner wrasse

2 - black and white percs
3 - true percs

1 - male square back anthias
3 - female square back anthias [picking up 3 more today]
1 - dispar anthias

1 - sea apple
14"x10" orange monti cap
10"x6" 20 year old brain coral
25+ head frog spawn
10" rbta [picking up a 12" + one this weekend]
4"x4" yellow fiji leather

several mother colonies of zoas 50+ polyps to include
my favorite reds
aog
pink zippers
japanese fireworks
whamin' watermelons
radioavtive alien eyes
green bay packers
bambams

smaller colonies include
utter chaos, red hornets, fruit loops

also have
duncans
acan colonies
purple bansai sps
stag horn
etc.

2 - green serpant starts
1 - comon star
2 - beautiful maxi mini carpets

300g pond

1 - violation lion fish
1 - porcipine puffer
1 - humu humu triger
1 - domino damsel
1 - yellow damsel
1 - long spine urchin

future stock plans

500g reef

1 - purple tang
1 - powder blue tang
3 - 6 female square back anthias
1 - large clam
1 - blue and gold sea apple
as many zoa mother colonies as i can stuff in there ; )

300g pond

1 - queen angel
3 - look downs

i will try and get pics of live stock and corals asap.......

ems

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AJ :)

02-15-2012, 03:09 PM

Great stock lists! I like the way you think. I have wanted lookdowns for years, just don't think I have the room for them. Awesome fish!

lobster_mobster

02-15-2012, 03:22 PM

What an amazing tank and set up! Extremely impressive! How long did the whole process of building and getting everything set up take?

Captain

02-15-2012, 04:30 PM

An aggro pond plumbed into a reef!
Crazy setup!

EMSREEF

02-15-2012, 05:15 PM

i knew before i started frags would get lost in such a big tank, i do have several large mother colony corals. smaller frags are in the frag tank; growing out.

i started this build last jan. and actually took 3 months off, due to set backs and frustrations. this was finished in late october so i'd say a good solid 6 1/2 - 7 months from start to finish.

ems

Badfish

02-16-2012, 07:04 AM

Who are you and how were you able to steal the dreams out of my head? :hypnotized: Amazing setup.

EMSREEF

02-18-2012, 03:17 PM

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slapshot

02-19-2012, 10:33 AM

I know you have been out collecting corals......time for a new FTS!!!!