FS: 800G acrylic tank

bbrantley

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I know the odds are pretty low that any of you are cruising this thread just looking for a giant custom tank, but I figure I'll post anyway and the conversation will be fun. :)

A few years ago I ran a large reef tank in my home. Since then, I have moved back and forth to California for work and no longer keep the tank running. We are planning to move permanently in the coming year, and I will be decommissioning the whole system since it is likely the buyer of our home will not be interested in a full-time job maintaining a giant reef. Hehe.

The tank is 1-inch thick, 8 feet long, 5 feet the other way, and about 30 inches tall. It is acrylic through and through, with one sheet of black on one of the short ends. The other short end has a 5x5-inch "notch" in it made to accommodate a corner member that ran from floor to ceiling. (Imagine the tank with two viewing panes, at 90 degrees to each other, into the room.)

Rough volume is 800 gallons. The black end has a coast-to-coast overflow and three 2-inch drains. The top panel is also one-inch acrylic and has three large cutouts (and therefore two cross members that span the 5-foot dimension). The cross members are strong enough to sit, stand, or jump on.

The tank was built by James at Envision, one of the best builders on the planet. New it costed a little over $6,000. It is in very good shape with no significant scratches nor any issues.

I would like to get about $3,200 for this tank. Transportation and delivery logistics are an open question, but I'm flexible, and we can surely work something out.

I know this will be sold in a matter of minutes, so I'll just be standing by hitting reload here on this post. :)

Ben
 
C'mon Cliff, you can just knock out a wall......

Dude, trust me, I have thought about it. The biggest obstacle is getting it into the basement. I even checked on an estimate of having a window well dug out and then put back in. I am findong no way of doing it viably without doing some serious modifications to the basement level. The wifey says I'm insane to even be considering it. :headwalls:
 
The only access is through the main level. Getting down the stairs would be a killer and then making the turn would be pretty much impossible. I had to stand the 180 on end to get it in. I would have to tear down a wall and see if it fits through the doorway down there. You're really trying to get me in truble hunh, Murf? :)
 
I'm going to be disassembling the tank room in January, and I will in fact slice Bertha up into chunks if I have to, so if anyone wants this, even speculatively while you decide whether to carve up your own house, let's make a deal soon. :)
 
The only access is through the main level. Getting down the stairs would be a killer and then making the turn would be pretty much impossible. I had to stand the 180 on end to get it in. I would have to tear down a wall and see if it fits through the doorway down there. You're really trying to get me in truble hunh, Murf? :)

We can always rebuild the wall! I measured and don't have enough room. I could put the tank in but would only have 30" for all the pumps and stuff and that is an egress to the back deck.
 
I might just get it and put it in storage til I move in another year or twp. I really wish I could get it down the steps to my basement. My wife says I'm insane for even considering it. Chris(ReefKoi) says he cou;d dig out one of my window wells and we could slide it in. I am really getting obsessed with this...
 
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