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| I thought that I would post pictures of the progress of a new tank I am getting ready to set up in my home. It's going to be a BIG one, approximately 600 gallons with a 160 gallon sump/refugium below the tank. I thought that I would share a couple of pictures of the tank being built. The tank dimensions are 120L X 48W X 25H. It's an acrylic tank and is supposed to be delivered in 10 days. I hope to be able to post pictures as things progress on my new project. 
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| That is going to be a really nice tank. Is this going to be a reef tank? Looking forward to seeing the pics of the progress.
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It is looking nice. Did you figure out anything on the lights yet? There are so many different options out there.
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Puffer Queen (12/10/2006)
That is going to be a really nice tank. Is this going to be a reef tank? Looking forward to seeing the pics of the progress. THe tank is going to be fish and coral, hopefully a lot of SPS, if I can get a good lighting plan for the tank. I din't realize at the beginning on how much light was going to be needed for this large of tank. The width of the tank, 48" is causing the biggest problem in coming up with a good lighting design. Will keep pictures coming as things progress.
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It is looking nice. Did you figure out anything on the lights yet? There are so many different options out there.NO I DIDN'T! I'm stumped and confused. Either I have to put the lights 18" above the tank, or invest in stock in the local power company. I want to be able to have "dusk to dawn" but also want to put primarily SPS corals in this tank. Am still waiting for some one to pop in with a good lighting plan or design
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| I was thinking about it more and if you went with the 400 watt pendants, you could have them higher above the water for a better spread and not have as many 250 watt pendants. I would think that would work out well, but the actual wattage is higher for six 400 watt pendants than eight 250 watt pendants (6x400=2,400 vs 8x250=2,000). Using T5 bulbs for supplemental and dawn to dusk lighting I think would work well also as they are more compact in size, but have a good output. It is never an easy solution. I thought I had the perfect lighting scheme planned for my tank and I am finding I want to tweak it now even though everything is doing well. Some day I will learn to live with what I have and stop changing everything around all the time . Keep us updated and if you want to bounce any ideas off us, that is what we are here for.
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How are you going to design the rock work? If it's going to be a wall of rock, then I'd say you should light the whole thing. But, if you are going to have a lagoon area with the high-light corals concentrated somewhere, then I would also concentrate your light and maybe save some money. It'd probably look really cool, too.
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| Here's a picture of the stand after it returned from being powder coated. In this picture, the stand is upside down. It was made in two sections so it would fit through the doorway. Stand is 42" in height which should make for nice viewing. ">
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That's going to be sweet when it's all in place! I love that you didn't go too high with the tank, 25" is so perfect. 
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i recently purchased vue ballasts, because i had an older model and i liked it alot. it was heavy and felt nicely constructed. the new ones seemed light and not of the same quality even though they were the same electronic type ballast. Anyway sanjay did a big comparison of ballast types and bulb types and the par output, and i would look through that before i purchased anything again.
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