1200 gallon reef at 9000 feet

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This is a video of Stephen Hurlock's 1200 gallon reef aquarium about 2 months after setup. The new tank is 10' long by 5' wide by 3' tall. This is an upgrade of the previous 600 gallon reef which was in it's place. Much of the livestock is from that previous tank as well as harvested from the local Denver CO reef aquarium community. The water is circulated within the aquarium exclusively with 8 Vortech pumps, with only four on at one time working to spin the entire water mass in a gyre-like motion. The vortechs are placed inside a custom designed dry cavity next to the overflow box. There is over 5000 watts of lights, mostly halides with a few VHO actinics.

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• giant
• monster
• reef
• marine
• aquarium
• coral
• vortech
• ecotech
• water
• flow

[jewpowers]

I have put probably a total of 170$+ into my ten gallon tank over the past nine months, I cant even imagine what kind of bills this thing sends to the house...

[WWpictures100]

How can someone dislike this!!

[yourbud123]

kid cudi- can i be freestyle to his is awsome

[bunny1780]

this puts my tiny 10 gallon mini reef to shame :( but this is a prime example that money really can buy happiness

[AquaticCastle]

I stopped the video at 7 seconds. The sound was too much.

[afrankdapimp12]

must suck to keep replacing the water

[Teslasdik]

@bidderr000 cant get them to eat? or they just mysteriously die?

[Teslasdik]

@bidderr000 cant get them to eat? or they just mysteriously die?



[3Deditor]

you're electricity bill must be horrendous! Beautiful tank though. How loud is the system btw? Is it deafening enough where you have to turn the t.v. up or talk louder to drown out the noise? Or is it fairly quite while using mostly merely silent Coralia powerheads?

[WWpictures100]

@corallite Good song!!

[marika2012]

VERY BEAUTIFUL TANK:)