Dream Tank - 4000 Gallons

[Baxreefs]

I skimmed through the MFK thread today to look at the filtration. This guy spent some money on the system for sure, over $100K, HUGE skimmer, a really tall bio tower (what ever that is ... I guess it's really good), immense sump, and a BIG! UV.

Still, IMHO, they filled it with water and added over 60 fish in two weeks. Fake corals and no live rock aside, that is asking for trouble. Well, disaster really.

I hope it works out, ... for the fishes sake.

 

[malulu]

if they don't like the live rock "color", they could have a sump which filled with LiveRocks and tuck under the tank.... :

 

[RobbiesReef]

ok, if he REALLY sold those type of cars to fund it, there would be live corals all over the place.i agree, what a waste!!

 

[REEFLECTIONS]

and it makes me feel better when i think that if you really do have to sell your ferrigini whatever it was to start a tank, than he ain't that much richer than the rest of us folks.... a real baller could afford both... haha

 

[redfishbluefish]

and it makes me feel better when i think that if you really do have to sell your ferrigini whatever it was to start a tank, than he ain't that much richer than the rest of us folks.... a real baller could afford both... haha

Ferrigini…..lol

Just for clarification, two cars; one a Ferrari 430 and the other a Lamborghini. Each one of these cars sells for over 200K. I don’t know about you, but the last time I looked in my driveway, none of my vehicles sell for 200K. For that fact, all seven cars I own don’t total up to 200K…or even come close.

Actually, if I remember correctly, the posts stated that he sold the two cars to fit the tank in the garage. So he took in 300 plus on the sale of these two cars. A comment was made by the installer that the tank setup cost the price of a turbo Porsche…they run about a buck and a quarter. So you got to figure that if in fact he used the sales of the two cars to fund the tank, he only needed to sell one. He just didn’t want to have to leave those Italian beauties out in the weather.

 

[Baxreefs]

... or covered in salt creep! Can you imagine watching your Lamborgini rusting away cause it parked next to your giant salt water tank?

 

[GregW]

I'd just add a bar and a couple mermaids and I'd be happy as a clam ;D

 

[REEFLECTIONS]

hey, what's the difference between a porche and a porcupine?...... whith a porcupine the prick is on the outside... bwuhaha... sorry mods if that pushed the envelope.... and my tough little hyndai accent can stand up to the elements.... lol

 

[vangvace]

Interesting filtration scheme:

Two 10000 GPH pumps return into tank, one goes thru UV and into left corner return and other goes thru ULTIMA and into the right corner return. The third pump is 8000 GPH amd is only for the skimmer system it returns into the sump. Bio-tower and chiller have has seperate 4000 GPH pumps both return into sump as well.

That makes it - 5x turnover? Only Half the flow is going thru the skimmer, and the other half into the UV. Wouldn't it have made sense to run all 20,000 GPH thru both inline? Overall turnover of 5x seems low to me, but I'm not up to date on how FO tanks are run.

I'm surprised they didn't go with a ginormaous fluidized sandbed filter instead of the biotower. Looking at the pictures, the skimmer isn't rated for that much flow, but will still be very effective imo. IIRC the Aquarium's skimmers are inline either.

I also have trouble believing the post that when the leopard and other species shark grow too big for the tank, that the owner has an "arrangement" with a local zoo/aquarium to take them. I dunno -if I were the curator of an aquarium - i doubt i'd want to take a hobbyist fish into my set up. But maybe I'm wrong here also.

Most of the time curators won't to my knowledge. Unless it's a rare fish that they have trouble getting a hold of or something very unique about it. One of the handful that Adventure Aquarium has received from hobbyist was fed a diet of hot dogs and cheese.

I think it's less about the shark outgrowing the tank as much as the other tank inhabitants becoming bite size for the sharks.