David Saxby's Reef Aquarium

[Rafael Dilone]

I have been an avid reader of many fish magazines over he years online and printed one's as well. From Practical Fish Keeping to Tropical Fish Hobbyist. I also read on my local city reef forum called Manhattan Reefs. After being in the reef hobby for 7 years and owning one for 3 i always want to expand my experiences and knowledge. I would love to share what is to be considered the best private owned Marine Aquarium in the World by David Saxby.





It is amazing how far someones passion for reefing can take them. Here is a link to PFK article speaking of the tank furthermore http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=2682. Hope others enjoy watching and maybe this inspires people to go into reefing

Also if a mod can fix the topic name as for the typo for Reef i would appreciate that.

 

[ZoddyZod]

Wow, now that's a true reef aquarium. Absolutely teeming with life.

thanks for posting the vids.

 

[Gytas]

really nice

thanks

 

[Rafael Dilone]

Here is a short vid of his filter room. That is just the smaller filter room as there is another much larger one 40 feet away or so.

 

[ZoddyZod]

hope he's not running all those plugs from one socket!

 

[Rafael Dilone]

hope he's not running all those plugs from one socket!

All that i think is what his electricity bill will be like. If he can afford the massive system already i am sure he wont mind a small electric bill

 

[ZoddyZod]

All that i think is what his electricity bill will be like. If he can afford the massive system already i am sure he wont mind a small electric bill

some of the info on the PFK article is amazing. The filters could fill a bath in 5 seconds and he's got ONE TON of live rock.

 

[markandhisfish]

wow!!! £100 just in salt for a 10% w/c now thats big pimping!!!!

 

[BethK]

thanks for the vids

That's one dedicated man for you

 

[karin]

Thank you for posting this. Really cool. I love what he said in the first video. We are not fishkeepers, we are waterkeepers. I am going to go use that in the New Freshwater Tank section right now.

Thanks again.

 

[Rafael Dilone]

Yea it is so impressive how well maintained this man has his tank. The monthly expenses are insane. I remember reading and hearing about his tank growing up when i read reef books or just general info on online reef forums. It saddens me to think that one day we will no longer have reef tanks in our home due to global warming. Take into account reef's take in about 1/3 of the worlds CO2 and with the level of C02 in reefs at the moment being around 158PPM or so if i recall correctly in about 20 years that will double and corals cannot thrive whatsoever and will bleach. I hope that things such as this tank can make people see the beauty of corals and hopefully care enough to save corals. There are so many medical discoveries corals can provide. To think in my lifetime corals may seize to exist