Outdoor Reef Tank?!?!?

Wow that looks cool. If I had designed it, however, i would have made it slightly deeper. You know...8 feet deep would have been good. Maybe 12. A good backyard snorkeling depth And I'd probably have it in some sort of sun room or green house, so all I'd worry about is the sunlight. I wouldn't care if it was raining or snowing.

And yes, that is probably significantly more expensive to run. The evaporation must be terrible.

 

wow thats neat i guess but,
am i the only one that thinks this is pointless?
tons of algae scrubbing + an epic clean up crew
you really don't get to see it and enjoy it
plus your corals wont be very colorful at all it would be like running a tank with 6700k metal halides quick growth but no color really.

anyways just wanted to throw that out there, it is neat though

 

i like this Idea where is he/she located. I Plan on having a green house out back of my new house but the coral will be in ground like a salt water swimming pool. but not as big the cement walls will be my live rock and a bunch of stands. i like the idea of the covers when it rains as it will kill everything off if the rain got in the tank.

 

I couldnt watch vids on here for along time...it is an active X issue

 

Could be, its my jobs computer, but I saw it at home. Thanks Curt


Luna

 

The LFS near my house buys their corals from a person in florida when they take big trips.
The person in Florida just sets the blue plastic kids pools out in their yard to grow corals.

 

There's a LR store somewhere that basicly holds their rock in a giant "swimming pool" tank. Just throwing that in there.

That would be a cool tank if you could have it indoors in a floor. You know, walking on the reef. But even that would lose its novelty after a while.

 

I thought about setting up an out door salt water pond for a while. I was going to use collected rain water for top offs.