400 gallon project

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Originally Posted by dsaundry

I have gone through your journal twice now, the wife thinks I am a hermit in my den as I have been looking at your tanks progress..Amazing, I am planning a large tank in a few years when I retire, for now I will plug along with my current set-ups.. I gotta ask and believe me I am not trying to be rude, Have you kept a journal of your costs from start to now? I would love to get an idea of what this set-up is worth. I can only imagine. Where did you compile all your designs from for your equipment. All your design or did you get some inspiration from other sources. How is your sea-hare working out? I have a small one in my tank and he is fantastic. Whatever hair algae I had is gone or so small I can't see it. Have you run into anymore issue with your set-up? So many questions I would love to ask you..Maybe there will be a tour and I will get the priviledge of seeing your tank close-up. Once again, "Stunning Tank"

Thanks. As you are close by, I'm sure you'll be seeing the tank soon enough. We're working on a club activity that I'll probably host so you'll have a couple of reasons to drop in.

For the most part, I kept most of my bills. Partly for warranty purposes, and partly because I might someday want to add it all up. I honestly do not know what the actual total is. I'm quite pleased that people tend to think I spent more than I actually did. There's plenty of opportunity to spend a LOT more on the lights, skimmers, sumps etc (can you say Deltec?). If you are really curious, just estimate based on what you see...

I still have one, very large, sea hare. I'm a bit worried about him as there is little/no hair algae left. It is interesting that the sea hare spends most of his nocturnal activities on the sand bed. There is hair algae to be found in some other areas, but that isn't where he spends his time.

Design? That came from hours and hours of browsing other build threads, mostly on Reef Central. I also had nearly a year of time to think about the plan before I actually began to build it. You should have seen some of the earlier plans! Most were larger.