Boss's 18gal half-round Jebo work tank

incysor

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My friend and boss is the person that got me into this addiction. I inherited my 6gal bowfront work tank from him when he got a new office and decided to upgrade to this 18gal half-round Jebo tank. He modded it by ripping out the weak light it came with and installed a 96w powerquad and a couple computer fans to keep things cool. He had a custom made fuge that sits flush behind it and holds his skimmer some egg-crate shelving for filter media etc... He plumbed his return line under the sand and put these cool rotating heads on the outlets.



 

djconn

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Wow, I kinda like how he has those rock ledges and has corals just sitting on them. Those feather dusters are HUGE. I would not get a single thing done if that tank was in my office. :D
 

incysor

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Actually I described things inaccurately in my earlier post. The MJ1200 is attached to a pvc pipe that goes down the back behind the rock, then is split and runs under the sand to the two rotating heads at the front of the tank. The green duck-bill looking spout is the return line from the fuge in back. The flow is pretty good, and the rotating heads seem to keep it random enough that most of the SPS pieces he's put in have been pretty happy. He hadn't ever done SPS before and he's lost a couple pieces, but they both bleached out, and I just think that they didn't have time to acclimate to the lights properly. He also lost a few mushrooms to the lights when he moved them from the 6gal that I've got to the new 18gal and went from 32w pc to 96w pc. He put them under the overhangs to try to shade them but they didn't make it. Overall it's been very stable and happy from day one. It took him about 2 months to get all the pieces planned and made before it actually got water in it. That kind of planning usually pays off. I really like the aquascaping in the tank. He had one good sized piece of table rock in his main reef at home, and he bought another good sized piece and he just broke them up so they'd fit, then arranged them until he liked it and epoxyed them in place.
 
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