Another amazing tank video

[Delphinus]

I NEED to revisit, they're just all so very awesome that I have trouble remembering which one is which after a while!!

If I recall correctly, this is the one where the guy replaces his sand bed every 6 months so that it's all nice and white ALL the time? (Oh dear. A little patch of cyano over hier! RrrrRRRrrRRReplace ze zand at vunce!! {insert Dutch accent here - it's OK - I'm Dutch - I can make fun of my own accent can't I !!?})

Still - what a breathtaking tank. I'm torn. If I could afford the upkeep of a tank like that, odds are pretty good I could afford just to live near a beach somewhere near a REAL reef, and that would be a hard choice to make!!!

... Hmmm, actually, it wouldn't. Never mind. Nevertheless, what a spectacular tank.

[fkshiu]

The two craziest things about this tank that always struck me are:

1. "After two structural piles were hammered 19 meters into the ground to help support the weight of the 8000 kg tank". WTF??? 19 meters???? I thought I overbuilt my stand.

2. The shop that the baby is in sell fireplaces. WTF??? Fireplaces???? If I walked into this shop thinking to buy a fireplace, I'd walk out wanting a reef tank instead.

[muck]

Originally Posted by kien

"Each week 1500 liters of water is replaced with fresh artificial salt water."

Oh come on... thats only ~400 gallons a week.

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

2. The shop that the baby is in sell fireplaces. WTF??? Fireplaces???? If I walked into this shop thinking to buy a fireplace, I'd walk out wanting a reef tank instead.

yeah thats true, the owner of the reef works there and wanted to be with his tank all the time.

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

If I recall correctly, this is the one where the guy replaces his sand bed every 6 months so that it's all nice and white ALL the time?

In his TOTM profile, he says that he replaces it every few weeks....

[kien]

Originally Posted by muck

Oh come on... thats only ~400 gallons a week.

just thinking about that water change makes me want to..

[fishytime]

If I remember correctly, the tank is stocked in zones....5' of Aussie corals, 5' of indo pacific etc....how could you get any work done with a tank like that to oggle??