Nate's 500 gallon Shark tank

[Nate]

Hey guys,

As some of you may know, I run an aquarium maintenance business in Calgary. About a year and a half ago, my wife and I had just found out that we were expecting our first child. I took it upon myself to finish our basement in our bungalow to give us more room. I started about 3 months into her pregnancy and finished 2 weeks before our daughter was born. I had decided that we needed a home theatre and a rather large fish tank in the plans. We already had a finished bathroom down there, but nothing else. Here are the tank details.


Tank -96x36x32 peninsula style tank (viewable from 2 sides

Sump - approx 6feet x30 inches

Filtration - 36 watt turbotwist UV
Hydor 3000 skimmer
Eshopps snowcone 200 skimmer (pulls more than the hydor)
Eheim heaters
Eheim 1262 return pumps

Flow - Tunze wavebox
2 x koralia magnums 6 and 8 I think

Lighting - Kessil LED my new personal favorites. I have sold about 100 of these in the past couple months and have had nothing but rave reviews!

Other - Tunze auto top off

Here is the stocklist and I am fully prepared for the flaming

3 epaulette sharks (harem 2 are 22 inches, 1 is 18)
2 salifin tangs (5 inches)
4 YEllow tangs (3 inches)
1 Vlamingi tang (7 inches)
3 Regal tangs (5 inches)
1 Chocolate tang (4 inches)
1 Convict tang ( 5 inches)
2 Blochs tripodfish (2 inches)
1 Emperor Snapper (7 inches)
1 Maroon Clown (4 inches)
1 Broom tail Filefish (8 inches)
1 FAn belly filefish (2 inches)
1 Foxface (6 inches)
1 Doliatus Rabbit (6 inches)
1 Blue line Rabbitfish (6 inches)
1 TWin spot coris Wrasse ( 3 inches)
1 Pompano ( 3 inches)
8 Big Eye Soldiers (2 inches)
3 Striped Big Eye Soldiers (3 inches)
2 popeye catufa Soldierfish (4 inches)
1 red tail filefish (2 inches)
1 Wild caught sun rise dottyback ( 2 inches)
1 miniatus Grouper (2 inches)
1 Parrot fish (3 inches)
1 speckled hawkfish (3 inches)
1 Harlequin Bass (2 inches)
1 porcupine puffer (2 inches)
2 cleaner shrimp

Just waiting for the lights to turn on to get some pics!

[subman]

sounds like an Amazing tank can't wait to see pics!!

[Cade]

Oh man I can't wait to see this!! Good luck with everything!

[Nate]

Well folks you might have to wait a bit as I am horrible with this whole picture posting thing.

Anyone want to volunteer to have me email pictures?

Sorry folks...

[Nate]

[Nate]

[paddyob]

The only thing I would worry about is adequate filtration. Sharks alone are hard on a system and you are above and beyond that.

Good luck. Interested to see this.

Ps. .. At least you never said 180g. People always post min tank for sharks. :P

[Nate]

Haven't had any real issues with filtration. Due to the tank stocking levels, water changes are required pretty regularly. Tank gets between 200-300 gallons a month changed depending on time constraints. I have managed to do a full 100 gallon with a 6 month old sleeping strapped to my chest!

Nitrates stay around 20 ppm

[Nate]

Also forgot to add.

There is also a thomasii tang in the tank.

And the tank is fed with...

Frozen: Hikari krill, Hikari jumbo mysis ( fantastic product), Hikari regular mysis, and both spirulina and regular brineshrimp. Cocktail shrimp, and
Hikarinsilversides for the Larger fish as well.

Dry: nori, marine a pellets from Hikari, seaweed extreme pellets also Hikari. Tetra colour pellets, and a tiny bit of new life spectrum.

[Delphinus]

Hey Nate! Neat setup.