5000g reef planing

[longliveledzep]

i might be moving and the house is perfect for a huge tank it has a daylight bacement with a huge storage room and concrete floors i would love to build a tank 18'x8'x5' cinder block body with a 1" thick acrylic window that would be around 5000 gallons i would love a reef any tips
here's a sketch of the tank

 

[dzjr1188]

Predator reef. would be awesome, eels, lionfish, or sharks, combine with lps corals and mayb some softies. you have lots of options!!!

 

[longliveledzep]

as for stocking i'm thinking a bunch of tangs like close to 100 a few rays a few eels and for coral a mixed reef

 

[longliveledzep]

this is how the lighting will be the circles are 1000w metal halides and the rectangles are 8' long t12 blue work lights

 

[longliveledzep]

and this is how i'm thinking of doing the aquascapeing

 

[mqktandy]

That would be awesome! do it if you have the cash to do so. I love the plan. and a 5k mixed reef would be amazing. to bad I cant afford the thousands in electric bills and salt a month or id be right along with ya

 

[The1and only]

On a tank that size I would use DIY LED supplement lighting, there are a few guys on reefcentral that have sunlight reefs that you can get info from. The articles section here has a great write up on building block tanks. IF you search Bil Wann's reefzilla you will find a guy who did something similar on a 14000 gallon scale.

There are ways to minimize costs like using ozone to recycle waste water and using Led's.

 

[smitty03281964]

I can not wait to see the build once you actually get started.

 

[longliveledzep]

i don't think leds would work on a 5' tall tank

 

[Ocean Railroader]

This sounds like something that I would like to build when I get my own place such as I would build the cinder block tank next to the house as it's own fish room and have a viewing window look into the living room of the hosue like this http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=666592&d=1288156879