Not to rub it in... BUT.. BIGGER TANK!

Join date : 2011-07-12 Posts : 755

BIGGER TANK TIME!!!! Hooya!!! headbanger

Seriously. I just bought a 156 gallon tank. 5ft x 2ft x 2ft.

SHA BOOM!!

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AWESOME!!!!!! banana

Upgrading or starting a new one in addition to your 120?? Need pics! Very Happy

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yes, upgrading. Can't afford to run both at the same time. Too much work :\

Its just sitting dry. Still needs bulk heads, pump and light

pics as soon as I can.

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That's awesome! Looking forward to the build!!

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woah

that's huge! Haha

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After looking through this thread I can venture to say... The tank looks great!...

Bring on the pictures!

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Thank you Samantha. Guess I had it coming haha

I actually took pictures a few days ago but then my harddrive gave out and i'm still working on getting it to work anger

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Yes, you did have it coming. tease

That sucks about your hardrive. Sad

Well, when you do get it fixed, where waiting in anticipation!!

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Its dirty right now Sad

The empty spot you see on the side will be covered with the same type of wood as the front. He made it so you just screw on these big plates as a skin. Makes for really easy maitenance! Smile

also, you can slide a 75g tank in from the side. No more hassle with sliding something in through the front! Very Happy

The stand is a little too solid in my opinion. Something like 15 "2 by 4's" used. Could quite litterly park a car on this.

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It's BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the color/finish of the wood! Simply gorgeous! Love that the canopy has fans installed, and that you can slide the sump in from the side. It's going to look AWESOME! mr. green

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Looks great Eric! LMK if you need any help with moving it into place, or transferring stuff!

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Nicholas41 wrote:: Looks great Eric! LMK if you need any help with moving it into place, or transferring stuff!

+1, I offer my help as well.

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Transferring stuff will be bad and I would more than appreciate your help Smile

I'll pay in frags or pizza of course(:

Moving it will be the biggest problem. It took 4 of us to move it onto the truck and 3 of us straining ourself for a week to get it to the back porch. Def. need at least 4 people when I move it inside. There is a good side though! We have double sliding glass doors on the back porch so it will a breeze to walk in! Smile

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You have my number, I'd be more than happy to assist! Very Happy

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Thank you nick!

Sounds stupid but i didn't know glass was so freakin heavy!!!!! half inch glass is rediculous!

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Yeah it makes quite a bit of difference! lol

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Yeah glass is heavy....my buddy and I carried a 120 up 2 flights of stairs to his 3rd floor condo....i felt like i was gunna die ='[ im so jealous of your tank....and also yes you can park a car on that stand lol when I built mine we figured that it could hold about 2000lbs which is sooooo overkill for a 100g

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Eric, how's the new aquarium coming along?

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Well, I got a sump! Very Happy

was going to post a pic but I realized how boring it looked.. its just a 75g tank with extra thick glass.

It feels so coo buying a tank thats 50% of the main tanks water volume to use as a sump bouncy

A lil over half of it will be a refugium! It will be three times the size of my current refuge! Smile

I will not be doing leds anymore btw. I'm looking for 250w halides..

Anyone know how to plumb a tank? I know the schematics but what hight do I cut the drain at? how wide? etc?

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Awesome! That's gonna be a huge refugium!

No leds. Why?

Hmm, plumbing a tank...I don't know what to tell you. My plumbing was very straightforward. Maybe check out Melev's Reef; I think I found some stuff there in the past...

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My plumbing consists of a canister, an in line, an out line and a pump. Otherwise known as a rena xp2. So I will not be of any help lol

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Nicholas41 wrote:: My plumbing consists of a canister, an in line, an out line and a pump. Otherwise known as a rena xp2. So I will not be of any help lol

You're useless... $I\'m w/ stupid$

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@nick: You're lucky. I despise your simpleness right now.

@Samantha: Yes, he is but he's the reason this forum is awesome! wasn't really expecting a lot of help in this area anyway (:

The leds are only half working at this point. I've got one fixture that works completely (160w) but the other doesn't work at all (wiring issues) and only one driver works -_____-

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