450 Gallon Starfire glass planted tank with Manzanita wood

[Plantbrain]

Here's a client's 450 gal tank for his office.
Has automated push button water changes to 50%, you do not have to leave the chair even

6 top of the line Ehiems.
Will use about 6 plant species, mostly, some Drawf Hygro or Staurogyne sp, and mostly hairgrass type belem. Low light and 1000 Green neons and Amano and cherry shrimp. Maybe CRS's.










Regards,
Tom Barr

[Plantbrain]

Tank is 8ft x 3ft H by 30 inches front to back.
Glass is tempered and 3/4" euro braced, hood is low light but angled in the front.
About 1.9W a gal, or about 1.2 w/gal most of the day. Mostly T12 light which seems weird, but the client likes those color temps from a T12 bulb.

Otherwise I'd use 8 x 54 W and only use 1/2 for 10 hours and the full 8 for 3 hours.

Regards,
Tom Barr

[JadeIceGreen]

Very nice big tank, looking forward to see it filled up.
What is the model of the eheim? 2075 or 2080?

[aqua]

keep us updated pls!!

[ethan2008]

Has automated push button water changes to 50%, you do not have to leave the chair even

Wow I simply love this feature.. keep the pictures coming Tom

[blue33]

Any reason of using 6 filters instead of 4 filter? Less water change or is going to be very high bioload? Hows the CO2 setup? Any picture of the CO2 being setup?

[Xianghao]

Wow this set-up is huge and its amazing that it requires 6 canister filters. I am also wondering why not use 1 or 2 of eheim's largest filters instead of 6 of those filters. This set up is HEAVY on filtration man..

[Blades]

This is definately a project would keeping track on. Those Eheims are wayyyy sexy!

[nickLee]

Very nice big tank, looking forward to see it filled up.
What is the model of the eheim? 2075 or 2080?

I think its either 2076 or 2078, the electronically controlled models

[blue33]

Oh! I just noticed that the bottom of the tank is being drilled with lots of pipe connection, no dead spot and easy to maneuver the hose to any direction he wants. All canister has a big hose pipe connection to share and connected to all outlet. The usual "Tom" method of building the tank, all in hiding. Correct me if i'm wrong, there's also a "Aquamedic CO2 reactor"? Any detail layout to show would be great.

[vratenza]

those "black beady-bendy" tubes are the inflow from the filters? Looks like they can be bent into any direction the person wants!

where can we get those locally?

[JadeIceGreen]

Wow this set-up is huge and its amazing that it requires 6 canister filters. I am also wondering why not use 1 or 2 of eheim's largest filters instead of 6 of those filters. This set up is HEAVY on filtration man..

450 gallons is about 1701 litres. ADA states that for superb filtration, the media should be 10 percent of total tank volume. So you would actually need 170 litres of media.

But an exception to this rule is big tanks in which water parameters are much more stable. So in my opinion, 6 canisters is just nice and looks like that is all the space the cabinet has.

[PeterGwee]

Those are loc-lines which are usually used in workshops that does machining and for delivering coolants directly to the spots needed. There are local distributors but not sure about the pricing though.

Regards,
Peter Gwee

[Morgan01]

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[Plantbrain]

Very nice big tank, looking forward to see it filled up.
What is the model of the eheim? 2075 or 2080?

2080's and the thermo's(2 of them are thermo filters, the rest are the normal top of the line filters).

Client wanted plenty of filtration, he's a stickler for very very clean clear water(water changes and over done filtration).

The cost is about 35$ per month to run this tank for electric, not much for the size really. CO2 is 4x AM100 reactors on each of the 4 filters, the other 2 filters go to the UV's.

"Loc lines" are used extensively my myself in set ups as well as for reefs and other applications. We go nuts for flow and circulation tweaking, which I'm passionate about.

Yes, this tank would have used a small sump, maybe 600-800 gph and then 2-3 canisters if it was my tank, but it's not

This would use about 120 w vs 180 w.
The plants, wood and sediment all act as a filter also.

Regards,
tom Barr

[Jervis]

Another great setup Tom... are you in any of the pix? The guy wearing the boxer?

[o2bubble]

Correct me if I'm wrong.... I'm just wondering if there will be any difficulty in priming all the filters at the same time for the initial startup since all are connected to a single big pipe? Also, would not all the co2 reactor needs to overturn at the same time during priming to remove the airlock? Need 6 persons for this job?

[TKS7011]

The AM1000 reactor came with a small valve for release of air lock. No need to overturn : p

[André Grassi]

when I grow up I want to have a tank of
Congratulations...

[blue33]

Correct me if I'm wrong.... I'm just wondering if there will be any difficulty in priming all the filters at the same time for the initial startup since all are connected to a single big pipe? Also, would not all the co2 reactor needs to overturn at the same time during priming to remove the airlock? Need 6 persons for this job?

Another method is to fill up the canister and fire up from there, done!