All I could say is WOW!

here is a little bit more info on that monster David Saxby, Forum, Ron Hessing.

Great reef tanks: David Saxby | Practical Fishkeeping magazine

 

Its 2000 gal. he set it up in 98 or 99 . He runs a company parafish somthing. Does pretty much what we do on this side of the pond. He has a web sire at one time not sure if its still up or not ?

 

Owners Name: David Saxby
Location: London, England
Year the tank was set up: Set-up in 1995, Redone Set-up in 2003
Size and Volume of the Tank: J-Shaped - 3 feet (1m) x 8 feet (2.7m) x 6 feet (2m) and 47 inches (117cm) high - approximately 1700 US Gallons
Sump Size: 1500 US Gallons
Pounds of Live Rock: 2000 Pounds
Sand Type/Depth: ROWAlith/4 inches (20 cm)
Type of Biological Filtration: Berlin

Main system pumps: Eight 3200 GPH circulation pumps
Additional pumps: An additional 3000 GPH for filtration, and direction of flow is alternated with electronic ball valves - Total water movement per hour is approximately 15,000 gallons.
Reactors: Deltec Fluidized Bed Calcium Reactor; Deltec Calcium Hydroxide Stirrer
Protein Skimmers: Two Deltec (Self-cleaning) and one Sanders Helgaland
Monitoring Equipment: IKS Computer
Wavemakers: Three IKS pumps controlled by the IKS computer
Doser: Deltec Peristaltic Dosing Pump
Chillers: Two outdoor chillers and two under the courtyard floor, and one large Deltec Eco Cooler (Swamp cooler)
Refugium: Small 40 gallon tank, one inch of sugar sand and Caulerpa
Denitrator: None
Trickle Filter: Used to speed up the nitrification cycle

Lamps: 5000 watts - Three 1000W 10 K MH, one 1000W 20K MH, one double 400W MH containing one 5K and one 20K lamp.
Photoperiod: 1000W lamps on for eight hours, and 400W lamps on for ten hours - all lamps replaced every nine months - lamps are 24 inches (60cm) above water surface

Water Temperature: 76 - 78°F
Specific Gravity: 1.026
PH: 8.1 - 8.4
Calcium: 470 - 480 ppm
Redox: 450
Alkalinity: 7.8 dKH
Nitrate: 5 - 10 ppm
Nitrite: 0.02 ppm
Ozone: Infrequently used
Phosphate: Below 0.015 ppm - uses two large swimming pool sand filters and places a large quantity of ROWAphos between sand layers in each filter. Each filter is serviced as needed by testing its effluent.
Additives: None
Water Changes: 10% once per month
RO/DI water: RO - yes, DI - no
Brand of Salt Mix: Reef Crystals

 

LOL hhahah Dang Geek a friend of our in Irleand was tge diver in that system as I recall ? A guy named Collen hell of a nice guy the helped the Saxby guy lay it out and get it going.. I just recall them getting me in on the Pumps and wiring and how much flow can this do and such But that was way long ago like about 10 Yrs I guess now ? Dang buddy I'd not want to try and kep anything from you are you aa Cop LOL FBI CIA Oh and I was told Collen just did an artical for some Magazine Tropical Fish hobbyiest.. Amcarrig will send him this link he'll get a kick out of it.. I had forgotten all about that tank

 

Thats freakin awesome....

 

If it's the tank Tangster and I are thinking about, the name of the person who helped him set it up is Colin Dunlop (aka Octomonkey on many forums and who can be found on TONMO.com: The Octopus News Magazine Online). As has been mentioned, Colin just wrote an article for Tropical Fish Hobbiest magazine (I think) on breeding betta fish.

 

LMAO, alot of people was asking what it was, and I was looking for the info and posted it, no harm no foul

LMAO@CIA
Dont be telling people what my day job is ;D;D

 

Well according to this, its 1200g, but who knows, haha

Write Up

 

Is anyone else curious about his Deltec Eco Cooler?
I've never seen those before. The stats are impressive.. (it only uses around 38 watts!) I think I need to add that to the 3reef Radar asap.

 

No not yet But I /we where asked to try and come up with a effecient chiller for a large system. The Fish &aquarium industry is sucking hind teat here. If youy took the average aquarium chiller and had to evalurate the effeciency as the EPA requires a Central A/C in SEER units then they would average 6 maybe 7 on the bettwr ones. I just placed a order for the Chiller barrel to connect to aq 1.5 ton Heat Pump.. 14 seer and will cool and heat the water at a fraction of the cost a off the shelf chiller.. I installed a few at a local school and it cut them way down on Cost of operation.