500g stock tank at farm and fleet

yahutch

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has anyone used one of these ? are they fish/reef safe ? I know people have used the black rubbermaid look a like stock tanks from there , but has anyone used one of the large blue 500g or 1000g ? are they safe , I would like to use one as a holding tank.
 
anybody ?

what should I be looking for in the plastic to know that it is safe . they are used as animal feeders so I would assume they are safe , but you know what they say about those who assume .

man I wish I could get the rc search feature to work . I would pay for the premium membership , but I heard it is still hit or miss.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7225539#post7225539 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by yahutch
anybody ?

what should I be looking for in the plastic to know that it is safe . they are used as animal feeders so I would assume they are safe , but you know what they say about those who assume .

man I wish I could get the rc search feature to work . I would pay for the premium membership , but I heard it is still hit or miss.

The search works >90% of the time for me. More hit than miss.
 
Harbor Aquatics had a system based on 8 or 10 of the 1000 gallon version and she cultured live rock in them and an untold number of creatures also inhabited that system. She had an 8 foot tall skimmer on that system too. Way cool.

Adam
 
thanks everyone for the help .

marilyn , thanks for going out of your way to help.

Adam , that is what I was looking for . were they blue ?
 
Hi Yvette,

They were blue. The same ones that they sell at farm and fleet. Unless they have changed the description on the sales sheet, fish farming was one of the listed applications. They use a food grade plastic which is human safe. Typically when I am looking for something for the fish I look for human grade items. That is the safest bet.

If you are not one of those lucky enough to have gone to Harbor Aquatics it was an incredible place. It was run by Joy Meadows until June, 2004. It was originally her husbands business but he passed away. Joy continued to run it for a few years but it wasn't really what she wanted. She closed Harbor and moved on to other things.

She had live rock shipped in from a few places and cultured it under natural sunlight in a greenhouse. She had two rows of 1000 gallon stock tanks. I do not remember if she had eight or ten of them. Farthest from the pumps was where she put the newest rock. As time passed and new rock came in the rocks were moved toward the pumps. Rock that was sold was in the 2 tanks on each side closest to the pumps.

She also had another room where she raised clams under halides and rescued and aquacultured corals. She did not deal in anything harvested from the deep as far as corals were concerned. She had corals collected that washed up on the beach as frags following storms.

It was a really cool place that anyone that had visited surely misses.

Adam
 
I had the pleasure of talking to Joy a couple times on the phone , but never made the trip .
thanks again , you were much more informative then the guy who worked there . now I just have to figure out how to get it home . lol
 

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