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15+ Years in the Making: 1000-Gallon Mixed Reef Tank with Legendary Clam & Stunning Peninsula Design

2

Tanks Featured

25

Minutes

2025

Released

This video tours George's meticulously designed 1000-gallon mixed reef tank, a project 15+ years in the making. The tank features a stunning peninsula design with intricate rock work, a diverse collection of SPS corals, and a legendary 10-year-old clam. All the tank's equipment and filtration are housed in a dedicated, remote sump room, ensuring a quiet, clean, and aesthetically pleasing display in his living space.

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00:00:43Overview of coral types and tank philosophy 00:02:14Rock work and tank dimensions 00:03:31Tank age and hobby journey 00:06:31Livestock: fish selection 00:07:58Legendary 10-year-old clam 00:09:10Carpet anemones and their inhabitants 00:10:11Lighting setup 00:10:49Remote sump room and plumbing 00:12:02Flow pumps (Hydro Wizards) 00:15:35Tour of the filtration room 00:17:07Salt mixing and RODI setup 00:17:51Kalkwasser and calcium reactor 00:18:50Sump, refugium, and live rock 00:20:39Protein skimmers and reactors

The Builds

2 Tanks Featured

Every spec, brand, and livestock mention pulled from the host's narration. Click any tank tour above to compare.

Tank 01

George's 1000-Gallon Mixed Reef

1000

Gallons

mixed reef

Style

80

Months Old

108" x 48" x 30"

George's 1000-gallon peninsula reef tank is a stunning mixed reef, emphasizing SPS corals and carpet anemones, which he has kept for over 10 years. The tank features impressive rock work with multiple islands and tunnels, creating a three-dimensional look and excellent flow. All filtration and equipment are housed in a remote, insulated, and air-conditioned sump room, ensuring a quiet and clean display area in the living space.

Lighting

Orphek Nura Icon ×12 $794.75in stock,

Orphek light bars ×8 $153.00in stock

Skimmer

Flow

Hydro Wizard ECM63 ×2

Dosing

kalkwasser, calcium reactor

Filtration

refugium, live rock, protein skimming

Salt

Instant Ocean Reef Crystals $63.74in stock

Water Changes

Mixes 50-gallon increments in a custom tank, plumbed to main system.

Corals

5

SPS coralLPStorchesAcropora milleporapink stag

Fish

4

Achilles tang (Darth Maul)orange antheus (1 male, 10 females)borbonous antheus (pair)white storm clowns

Inverts

5

carpet anemones (Hadite)anemone crabsclams (DRSA or CIA, 10 years old, 18" across)shrimpscrabs

Tank 02

Frag Tank

A frag tank plumbed into the main system, used for growing out excess coral, acclimating new coral, and observing them after dipping.

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Mentioned as: XP 8000

Orphek Atlantik V4

Mentioned as: Orphek Nura Icon; Orphek light bars

Panta Rhei ECM-Series Powerhead

ECM-Series Powerhead

Mentioned as: Hydro Wizard ECM63

Instant Ocean Salt Mix

Mentioned as: Instant Ocean Reef Crystals

In their own words

Notable Quotes

I want it to feel natural. I want it to be beautiful and have all kinds of colors and all kinds of movement.

I've been in the hobby for 15 years, but you kind of come and go. Every time you come back, you come back with a little bit more passion and a little more knowledge.

I'm an artist by at least that's what I went to college for. So I'm always looking at it in an artistic way. Like I'm trying to keep it balanced in what you see, whether it's textures, colors.

The wife is happy because there's no sounds, no smells, no leaks. It keeps everything here just where you're focused on the tank.

If I want it to be a piece of art in my house, which is what I was hoping for, then you want to try to take those things into consideration so you end up with a piece of art and not something that's a science experiment in the middle of your house.