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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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2 Tanks Featured

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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
Dosing
kalkwasser, calcium reactor
Filtration
refugium, live rock, protein skimming
Salt
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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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.