DIY Concrete Aquarium 5,000 gallon - Anderson Family Reef

User1 · Mar 15, 2019

Salty Lemon said:
Best post EVER! I'm following. Not because you toss your kids in the tank (okay, sort of), but because this will be fun to watch.

Lol - that made me laugh.

Nice tank and updates - great work.

Don Lidtke · Mar 15, 2019

dca22anderson said:
May be time to get your rock stack dialed in

I am ready for you to do your magic.

dca22anderson · Mar 17, 2019

Waiting for my filtration gear to ship, no real progress this week other than filled it up and seeded it with some copepods and some bacteria.

Humongous · Mar 17, 2019

Well, you got out of town and came up to see my tank. That's something!! You got to see how your new filtration gear will work.

dca22anderson · Mar 18, 2019

Humongous said:
Well, you got out of town and came up to see my tank. That's something!! You got to see how your new filtration gear will work.

Bro your tank is insane!! Not many 10.5’x5’ tanks around!! Hope you don’t mind me sharing some pics:

dca22anderson · Mar 21, 2019

dca22anderson · Mar 23, 2019

First 3 fish in there, they are lost, but in there:

Scopas Tang (who was beating up everyone in the 150)
Clown (my friend Cliffs fish)
Vlamingi small (One of three I have for the tank)

dca22anderson · Mar 25, 2019

I now need my skimmer shipped more than ever!!

dca22anderson · Mar 27, 2019

Funny how small the fish look against that giant rock stack

Hemmdog · Mar 27, 2019

dca22anderson said:
Funny how small the fish look against that giant rock stack

Amazing! Super impressive build!

dca22anderson · Mar 28, 2019

Little throw back shirt I got from the local reef club, I’m sure it’s still around somewhere

dca22anderson · Mar 29, 2019

Filtration gear is delayed another week. ;Bored

1stNoel · Mar 30, 2019

dca22anderson said:
The time has come to build out another sweet large reef.

Here is my last one: Anderson Family Reef - 1200 Gallon Reef

This time I will build out an in wall 720 (8'x3'x4') and a 740 (9'x4'x33") in the fish room.

How do all of those tangs happily coexist?

dca22anderson · Mar 31, 2019

1stNoel said:
How do all of those tangs happily coexist?

I think it’s the size of the tank and there are plenty of hiding spots for them to run to, other than that I added them when they were all small and established the pecking order early on...