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Ok, here are the pictures in no particular order.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Maybe when things get going well and I have fish and corals in the tank I will have an "open house" so people can come see, or just setup individual appointments, whatever comes easier.

One bummer I just found out today while running tests on the pumps is that the right side of the tank is 1/8" taller (because of a stupid 4X4) and causing the overflow to not process as much as the other side, so I have to figure out how to trim down the 4X4 an 1/8". Its just so darn hard to get things exactly level over 10', LOL.

Thanks for the advice, I will look into photobucket this week and see about reposting the pics.

Thanks for posting a link to the RC thread, I wasn't sure if that was proper here or not.

I had been researching for about 3 months before even starting this system, I have had years of experience but when you jump up into this size you really need to have everything set out ahead. I learned a lot and really feel ready.

I will keep you all updated as things move along.

Hello Everybody! New to the forum, love to see everyones tanks, thought I would post my own.

I just started this tank, I previously had a 125 Gallon Reef and 240 Gallon Fish Only, decided to do one large Reef Tank.

Tank: 450 Gallon, 120"length, 36" width, 24" height, 3/4" Acrylic, the overflows are built at an angle so as to help waterflow around the tank, 4 - 1-1/2" Drain Lines

Refugium: 180 Gallon Acrylic, 72"length, 24" width, 24" height, one side of the main tank will drain into here, 2 - 1-1/2" bulkheads will drain into the sump

Sump: 180 Gallon Poly Stock, 72"length, 24"width, 24"height, this will house most of the equipment and has 4 flow pumps connected

Lighting: 4 - 250 Watt HQI 14k Phoenix Metal Halides, 4 - 110 Watt Super Actinic T12 Fluorescent, 3 - 75 Watt 10K Aquasun T12 Fluorescent, 20" box fan on both ends

48" Odyssea HQI 175 watt system over the Refugium

72 LED Moonlight system

Flow: Sequence Reeflo Dart for main waterflow running 1-1/2" lines directly into the tank, Iwaki 100 will connect to three 1" Sea Swirls and other lines, Iwaki 75 and Iwaki 55 will run all equipment and any extra flow needed, two Tunze 6000's and two Tunze 6200's, I am thinking about adding a tunze wavebox or homemade wavemakers (upside down tri-sprinklers)

Calcium: Geo 624 Calcium Reactor, Ph Probe will go directly into chamber, modified with JBJ bubble counter

Skimmer: ASM G-6 Recirculating Protein Skimmer, modified with three Sedra 9000's, 48" tall, 12" diameter

Other Filtration: 36" Lifegard Fluidized Sand Bed Filter, 24" Lifegard Fluidized Rowaphos Phosphate Filter

Kalk: 24" Kalk Stirrer by Fishbowl Innovations

RO/DI: 6 Stage PureWater RO/DI 75 gallons a day

Monitors: Phosphate, Alk, Calcium, Salinity (I think they are all Milwaukee)

I ordered 500 Pounds of Live Sand and 500 Pounds of Live Rock

I used Milk Crates (modified) to hold up some of the rock so that there was plenty of swimming room for the fish.

The rock doesn't cover all the blue crates, but I think as coraline grows they will dissapear.

Here is the equipment

I will spend the next two months cycling the system before adding any fish or corals.

I do have a fish list and will post that soon (lots of tangs).

Thanks for looking and feel free to ask questions.