Some background and Inspiration
Well when I first started my current marine tank I was under the illusion that this would be the perfect tank, I THOUGHT I had read enough, that I had done enough research etc etc etc …… When I set out with that tank I had no intention of keeping SPS, and the list of thought and didn’t realize goes on and on and on ………
I have had this tank for bout 2 years now, and have achieved some great successes while continuously learning about this amazing hobby… for the most part I have been very patient with stocking and learnt to research the creatures I want to keep in great depth before buying them….. and have been rewarded with very few deaths and a great reef as a result….. An unfortunate incident where I lost 13 of my prized fish in a tank move came close to ending this hobby for me, but I have decided to press forward !
So last year October when I was in the Amazon doing some geological research I received an e-mail from my lovely non reefer wife who said that she was sick of us renting a house in JHb and that it was time to settle down etc etc …. The mail went on for quite a bit, although as a reefer all I read was we buying a house … you get to have your dream tank !!!! at least that is the way I interpreted it. So when I was back in the land of smoke and taxi’s, we started looking of a suitable abode…. Not an easy task as many of you I am sure will attest to !
As we looked through house after house after house I was imagining tank after tank after tank ….. eventually we found what we were looking for and made an offer, it was accepted and the rest is history. Looking at those initial pics we took of the house way back in November I realized that of the 50 odd pics a good 30 of them were taken with potential tank positions in mind (a fact that non reefer has subsequently noticed).
So before I go and talk about the tank I am busy building I thought I would post pics of SOME of the systems that have inspired me to go ahead and build this dream tank of mine….
This is simply a snap shot of some of the tanks that have blown my mind it is not an exhaustive list, some I am sure you will recognize others are from overseas forums… I will continue with what has happened with the new tank build when I get some time this evening hopefully ….. rest assured it will be something VERY different to what you may think ….
The build has progressed to some extent, so be patient
Well when I first started my current marine tank I was under the illusion that this would be the perfect tank, I THOUGHT I had read enough, that I had done enough research etc etc etc …… When I set out with that tank I had no intention of keeping SPS, and the list of thought and didn’t realize goes on and on and on ………
I have had this tank for bout 2 years now, and have achieved some great successes while continuously learning about this amazing hobby… for the most part I have been very patient with stocking and learnt to research the creatures I want to keep in great depth before buying them….. and have been rewarded with very few deaths and a great reef as a result….. An unfortunate incident where I lost 13 of my prized fish in a tank move came close to ending this hobby for me, but I have decided to press forward !
So last year October when I was in the Amazon doing some geological research I received an e-mail from my lovely non reefer wife who said that she was sick of us renting a house in JHb and that it was time to settle down etc etc …. The mail went on for quite a bit, although as a reefer all I read was we buying a house … you get to have your dream tank !!!! at least that is the way I interpreted it. So when I was back in the land of smoke and taxi’s, we started looking of a suitable abode…. Not an easy task as many of you I am sure will attest to !
As we looked through house after house after house I was imagining tank after tank after tank ….. eventually we found what we were looking for and made an offer, it was accepted and the rest is history. Looking at those initial pics we took of the house way back in November I realized that of the 50 odd pics a good 30 of them were taken with potential tank positions in mind (a fact that non reefer has subsequently noticed).
So before I go and talk about the tank I am busy building I thought I would post pics of SOME of the systems that have inspired me to go ahead and build this dream tank of mine….
This is simply a snap shot of some of the tanks that have blown my mind it is not an exhaustive list, some I am sure you will recognize others are from overseas forums… I will continue with what has happened with the new tank build when I get some time this evening hopefully ….. rest assured it will be something VERY different to what you may think ….
The build has progressed to some extent, so be patient
….. a couple of hours of carefully planned negotiations with the non reefer and we had the go-ahead ! 
