My 340 gallon Tang tank

Cabinetman · May 3, 2016

Hear is a video of my 340 gallon acrylic I built myself. Right now I have 3 hippos,4 yellow, 3 naso, 2 dejardini and one pacific sailfin, a powered blue, 1 scopus, 1 purple, 1 vlamingi , 1 sohal, plus there is a foxface ,2 Niger triggers, 1 copperband , 2 regular clown, 2 maroon, 1 clarki, a melanarus wrasse and a cleaner wrasse. Here's a vid I did a day or so ago.

Patekphilippe · May 3, 2016

Beautiful tangs

Cabinetman · May 3, 2016

Patekphilippe said:
Beautiful tangs

Thanks.

danschargers21 · May 3, 2016

Im jealous

Ryan Moeller · May 4, 2016

Gorgeous fish!! How's the bioload with that many fish?

Cabinetman · May 4, 2016

Ryan Moeller said:
Gorgeous fish!! How's the bioload with that many fish?

Insane lol. I used to rely mainly on an algae scrubber I built for a 300 gallon plywood tank I built but my bioload in this tank is bout triple at least but I never noticed how high my nutrient levels were getting until a few months ago. At that point I changed from a scrubbe to a 135 gallon sump pretty much totally lit to grow cheato. It's been slowly lowering my nutrients but in order to get a jump I've been doing huge water changes using natural sea water and it's made a huge difference. Now I'm down more to acceptable levels. Now I'm hoping the cheato keeps up better but I plan on doing at least a 250 gallon water change to this system once a month as that's what I can haul in one trip. There is also a 150 gallon and a 50 gallon tank plumbed in along with my 135 sump. I believe I've got close to 600 gsllons in my system. Anyway. With this many fish it's been a challenge but I wouldn't have it any other way! I also built a sand filter to help remove detritus and keep my water crystal clear. I used to use filter socks but do I ever hate cleaning them. My sand filter is way easier to clean. Just open and close a few valves to backflush and it's done. It helps with bioload as it catches all the crap floating around.

Dwb5 · May 4, 2016

What are the dim. on your tank?

Chrisfish · May 4, 2016

Welcome to R2R. Very nice video and your tank and tangs are beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Cabinetman · May 4, 2016

Dwb5 said:
What are the dim. on your tank?

It's 96x32x25 1/2 tall made outa 3/4 acrylic. I made it myself.

Cabinetman · May 4, 2016

Chrisfish said:
Welcome to R2R. Very nice video and your tank and tangs are beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks. I'm really liking this forum.

Dwb5 · May 4, 2016

That's really cool man. You should be proud of that for sure! I'm hoping to start one at the first for the year, is why I'm asking. I trying to see what size I want to make it. I want 350+ gal. for sure.

I really like your tank!

revhtree · May 4, 2016

Cabinetman said:
Hear is a video of my 340 gallon acrylic I built myself. Right now I have 3 hippos,4 yellow, 3 naso, 2 dejardini and one pacific sailfin, a powered blue, 1 scopus, 1 purple, 1 vlamingi , 1 sohal, plus there is a foxface ,2 Niger triggers, 1 copperband , 2 regular clown, 2 maroon, 1 clarki, a melanarus wrasse and a cleaner wrasse. Here's a vid I did a day or so ago.

Awesome I love it! Do you have a tank thread here at R2R yet?

Cabinetman · May 4, 2016

revhtree said:
Awesome I love it! Do you have a tank thread here at R2R yet?

Thanks! No I don't. This is kinda it I guess. I'll post a link to my YouTube channel. I've got tons of vids of my tanks and builds over the past few years. Here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6OpNhAUPO2GUN5zgWztEg?app=desktop