Introducing my home 17k gallon reef

[Hedgedrew]

The Japanese/American feud is over...... no hard feelings anymore.........

Maybe i need a deep water koji tank !!!

 

[Hedgedrew]

Would love to see a distance shot with more white light. To better grasp this size. Awesome tank.

Put the white lights on higher and step back ?

 

[Sea MunnKey]

Good morning Hedgedrew (Drew), my morning work just got interrupted! That is one massive "ocean" dwelling and very impressive is an understatement. Lookit you're the main cause I'm drooling all over my keyboard and eyes fixated on my widescreen monitor .... ;Drool

Thanks for sharing and is there a "Much Dislike" button so I can get back to work .... ;Woot (just kidding and who am I kidding right?)

 

[Hedgedrew]

Good morning Hedgedrew (Drew), my morning work just got interrupted! That is one massive "ocean" dwelling and very impressive is an understatement. Lookit you're the main cause I'm drooling all over my keyboard and eyes fixated on my widescreen monitor .... ;Drool

Thanks for sharing and is there a "Much Dislike" button so I can get back to work .... ;Woot (just kidding and who am I kidding right?)

Thank you sea monkey !! Get back to work. Lol

 

[Doogie D]

The tank and everything that I have see so far is absolutely stunning and amazing

 

[Yates273]

This is truly an amazing tank!! I look at this thing can’t begin to imagine the filtration on it which is probably much more complex than the tank itself. This is an amazing piece of living art and from reading through all these posts you seem like a very humble person. To take time out of your busy lifestyle to answer each and every question that has been thrown at you speaks volumes. All I can say is thank you for sharing this!! Many questions I had, have been answered and I’m sure the ones that have not been asked will be soon.

 

[TVV]

That tank is unbelievable! All I can say is wholly crap!

 

[TVV]

That could almost be the foyer to a hotel, Starbucks cup, driftwood table and everything

They should be so lucky!

 

[Silent]

I would definitely stay at that hotel.

 

[RtomKinMad]

This is truly an amazing tank!! I look at this thing can’t begin to imagine the filtration on it which is probably much more complex than the tank itself. This is an amazing piece of living art and from reading through all these posts you seem like a very humble person. To take time out of your busy lifestyle to answer each and every question that has been thrown at you speaks volumes. All I can say is thank you for sharing this!! Many questions I had, have been answered and I’m sure the ones that have not been asked will be soon.

Hi Jason!
I agree with you 100%! I’m a graduate student right now and I opened R2R to take a break from writing and couldn’t stop reading this thread and Mr. Sandler was so nice to answer my silly questions and made me laugh! It was nice to see a thread that had so much detail and amazing pictures/videos. Definitely impressive and better than any car collection, IMO!

 

[JCOLE]

WOW!! This shouldn't be in the large aquarium category. This one needs a category of it's own. This is amazing. Following along.

 

[TVV]

Oh OK, I get it now...duh. HedgeDrew, you are a hedge fund manager. And apparently a very successful one that loves reefs. Good for you!

Incredible.

 

[Taxus812]

That’s just insanely awesome. So I have a question with a tank that large do you still need to do water changes ? How would something like that work?

 

[dansreef]

Wow! What an incredible tank...system... reef!!!! Well Done Sir! I look forward to seeing more!

 

[RtomKinMad]

Sir, You may have already mentioned and I missed it but what do you feed this tank, how much and how often? All the water tests are automated? Thank you.

 

[thewalkingdad]

Great work, Andrew!

Besides the Pacific Ocean itself, what are you using for inspiration for this build? We often look at larger tanks to get inspiration and then copy that. What are you using?

 

[King Turkey]

Nice

 

[Hedgedrew]

That’s just insanely awesome. So I have a question with a tank that large do you still need to do water changes ? How would something like that work?

We can make 10 k ro a day and we have large storage vats that can handle that much so basically computer will do most of the work but principles same as you. We need to backwash sand filter every 2weeks and can easily loose 3k gallons doing it.

 

[XLOR8T]

@Hedgedrew this is incredible! Fell in love with diving on our honeymoon in Grenada and brought the first piece of the ocean to our home with my 140Gal. Started to plan a 900gal for our current home and glad it didn’t get built. Since it looks like a move is in the plans for new future and ideally a new house build. Wife’s wish list is a tank big enough to dive in so I will be certainly picking your brains for tips and experiences! My current tank is basically on auto-pilot (dare I say that) with all the controller and automations in play. Wondering how close we can get to that with a tank in the thousands of gallons.

 

[Hedgedrew]

Sir, You may have already mentioned and I missed it but what do you feed this tank, how much and how often? All the water tests are automated? Thank you.

We defrost frozen in huge amounts for the day and they soak in some vitamins. And we go up ladders and put the food on a scooper at end of a long swimming pool net. And plop it in.