I want a combination tank

[paul b]

I want to have a combination tank with all the innovations that have come about in this hobby.  For instance I want a DSB a SSB, BB along with a Undergravel filter and bio balls.  This is going to be tough.  I guess I will have the BB on the bottom, then a few inches up, put 7" of a DSB, then a few inches above that install the UG filter and maybe the SSB in the sump. Of course there would be bio balls in a housing suspended from the ceiling feeding the algae filter that will be both lit from above and the side and the top. The algae filter would feed the bio reactor, calcium reactor, Rowaphos, GAC, skimmer (with ozone) UV sterilizer and Kalk reactor.  Lighting is easier, I would glue LEDs on to PC flourescent lamps and mount that in the same enclosure as the MH lights which would be 14,000K and 20,000K
A controller would alternately cycle all of these lights on and off a few times a second for the shimmer effect.  Both a chiller and heater would be run at the same time.
Water changes would be performed every day for a year, then no changes for the next year then by monthly the next.  Water would be NSW that would first be stored in an empty ASW bucket to get the benefits of both.  The tank would be initially cycled with a damsel that was pickeled in ammonia. Because I don't want to offend anyone that damsel would have died of old age.
Ich will be controlled by adding cleaner shrimp, cleaner fish and manta ray fry that are filter feeders and pick paracites off whales and copperband butterflies.
The tank would be stocked with moorish Idols, twin spot gobies, orange spotted filefish and octopus.
I will report on the progress of this tank in a few years when I am sure it will be overloaded with corals and baby moorish Idols. 

 

[mr.x-ray]

What about water flow?

[AlanM]

I will nominate this tank for TOTM!

[paul b]

I didn't think about water flow, so in keeping with the theme of this thread it should have one Korilia on a wave maker connected to a controller.  Another older powerhead would be placed in front of the Korilia so that the two pumos would cancel each other out and in essence, do nothing, then there should be a garden hose in the tank for the real circulation and it would also perform the continous water changes.

As for the TOTM, I would not nominate it for that because it would not be fair to the other participants, just because of the coolness factor.

[TheyCallMeMr.703]

I didn't think about water flow, so in keeping with the theme of this thread it should have one Korilia on a wave maker connected to a controller.  Another older powerhead would be placed in front of the Korilia so that the two pumos would cancel each other out and in essence, do nothing, then there should be a garden hose in the tank for the real circulation and it would also perform the continous water changes.

As for the TOTM, I would not nominate it for that because it would not be fair to the other participants, just because of the coolness factor.

 The Garden Hose is what Really makes it..

[londonloco]

lol

[treesprite]

What, no refugium? No dosing of carbon or bacteria?

[paul b]

No, I did mention algae filter, that is kind of a refugium 

[treesprite]

Not really. And there are different kinds of refugiums. I think you should add a xenia refugium to all of that, and rub your hands all in it every time before putting your hands in your tank, so the fish don't realize there are human hands in there and get scared.

[holedup82]

Not really. And there are different kinds of refugiums. I think you should add a xenia refugium to all of that, and rub your hands all in it every time before putting your hands in your tank, so the fish don't realize there are human hands in there and get scared.

lmao! I'm sure my clown thinks my hands a nem