My new 1000 litres - WIP

[Picci]

Hi guys!

3 weeks ago my tank decided to leave me... it started leaking water so I had to dismantle and give my fishes and my corals away.
I kept just my live rocks.

I cut the glasses and I'm preparing a new setup, 160x100x65 cm (around 1.000 litres).

Here some work in progress pics...

 

[Mandelstam]

Following! Love these threads..

 

[Picci]

Glasses arrived yesterday... next monday morning I'll assemble the tank!

 

[Picci]

Tank assembled yesterday morning.
Now come the most challenging task ever: doing nothing for two weeks!!!

 

[Mandelstam]

What method did you use when assembling the tank? Injection method with something like cable ties between the glass? Or just the "normal" way with beads of silicone along the edges and then squeezing the glass together?

 

[Picci]

We set in place the glasses at 5 mm among them using pieces of plastic, we put a generous dose of glue into the gap, then we gently squeezed the gap till 4mm using other spacers.
The spacers remained in place for 10 minutes, then they were removed and the holes closed with more glue.

The guy in the picture is a friend of mine, he's a shop owner and he does it almost every day.

it took two hours (two people) and 6 cartridges of dow corning 881.

 

[Picci]

During last weekend I added live rocks and water.
Now I just have to keep hands off till 2018!

 

[Clayton Jessup]

Tank looks amazing [emoji6]

 

[Tobbe]

looks great! looking forward to se the build

 

[S-t-r-e-t-c-h]

Nice aquascape!

 

[Picci]

Well... after a couple months of cycling, the tank is now full of acroporas!

Here attached, the steps of tank cycling.
Week 1, week 4 and week 8:

 

[Picci]

This video was taken today.

It total there are 11 Zebrasoma flavescens, 4 wrasses, 2 mandarins and some shrimps.... huh... also 44 "deepwater" acroporas:

 

[addo]

It looks great, I'm jealous of all your deepwater acros!

How do your wrasses get along?

 

[Picci]

They go very well... they eat everything, always keep swimming and do not fight.

 

[Peng]

That's a huge collection to start! Is it very easy to buy deepwater colonies in Italy/Europe?

 

[Picci]

Deepwater acros arrive regularly from Bali farms since a couple of years.
Most of them are maricultured, and that's a very good thing for different reasons.
First of all they are "sustainable", then they are easier to acclimate.

They still remain a challenge, as I am experiencing now... only for the brave!

 

[Peng]

You are lucky! In the US they are quite a bit hard to find because mariculture isn't as popular. Most European tanks I've seen primarily get maricultured pieces.

 

[Picci]

In the US you can count on a huge market of frag swap among aquarists... here the law is a heavy complication, you should have a register for the acros and provide CITES documents for any sale/exchange... that's crazy.

 

[Peng]

In the US you can count on a huge market of frag swap among aquarists... here the law is a heavy complication, you should have a register for the acros and provide CITES documents for any sale/exchange... that's crazy.

i see. no wonder most people buy maricultured. They are nice though. Your deepwater collection is incredible for sure

 

[gherewolf]

Any updates on this tank? What lighting is being used?