Mr4000 is back but w/o tank

Wow, Mr.4000 I feel much better after seeing your cost breakdown on the tank you built. My tank would only be about 1/4 of what your tank was in size, unfortunately it will be in the basement, with all equipment(sump, refugium) located in my garage, which will require a few holes being drilled thru the basement wall.

I know it will take awhile to post the details of your construction process, but could you at least give some details on the actual method you used to construct the walls of the tank, and how you attached the acrylic to the wall???

Thanks

P.S. - If all goes according to plans, I would hopefully be starting my project later this week.
 
Hey Mr 4000 it is an honour to see you back again....thank you for all the work you did in advancing our hobby with such a huge accomplishment.

I am in the process of setting up a 1800 gallon system in my basement and have a few questions...

System Details:

Main Tank- 126x72x32
Sumps, Refuge, frag tanks another 500+ gallons
Lighting- 10-15 mixed 250 and 400 HQI
Fish Room- 22'x15'
2 small windows in room
I live in Toronto Canada so winters are cold.

Questions:

Any suggestions relating to Humidity, venting etc are welcome


I am thinking of installing an HRV...good idea?
Do I need an exhaust fan on top of the HRV?
De-humidifier?
Air conditioner?

Thanks so much!!!
 
Thanks so much Mr. 4000, i would like to talk to you some more maybe over some emails or something because after all, you are the one that has had the experience with such a large tank, and i would like to know allt he do's and dont's so i can make this tank last for a long long time. Thanks so much!
 
Dk Coral said:
Mr 4000 - Am i the only one who just gets into a online casino and other crap site when hitting your little red house and typing www.mr4000.com ???
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Nope - the same goes for me:( Guess he closed the web-site together with the tank...:( To bad - I cant find any pictures on nay of his treads...

Please Mr.4000 - post some photos:)
 
Mr 4000:

I remember the pictures of you setting up that tank and it was truly inspiratinal to say the least. I was heart broken when I found out you sold everything and kept no tanks because I could only imagine what that must have been like. You just don't wake up one day and decide to have a massive system system like yours was.

I still can't see how you went cold turkey and kept nothing, not even the 750g tank. But I guess that only shows how depressed you were about the entire thing.

I would highly encourage you to get back in the saddle and do a smaller tank maybe. Something that you can manage indoors as your humidity problem is a real one and one that I think used your particular set up to be emphasized. That I think, despite it all, was one of the good things that you taught the rest of us.

Good to see you around again.
 
Wow. Good to see you posting. You should definitely get back in. Jumping in to a huge tank was a ballsy move and one that most people aren't willing (or able) to do.

You should get back in with something a little more managable. Hey - a 30 gallon tank is about 4000 fluid ounces....:)
 
Your experience with humidity issues were the driving force behind how I designed my room,even though the tank is a mere 11% the size of yours, what a sobering comparison. We were building an addition anyway, so we designed this room to be independant of the rest of the house except for the access doors above the tank and the door to the fishroom. The room has it's own temp control, it's own exhaust fan, painted with moisture barrier paint, greenboarded 100% (should have seen the inspectors face when he saw that), etc. The exhaust fan is wired to a greenhouse controller that gives me the options to set both the temp and humidity levels at which the AC comes on. I also have the added advantage of living in Las Vegas where the average humidity is somewhere around 15% and single digit humidity is not unheard of.

It's been almost a year and, so far, no issues, knock on wood.
 
I think there may be some pics in my gallery of the workroom, but there isn't much to show. The AC unit is one of those "split" units and is rated for a room at least 5x the size of my fishroom. The exhaust fan is a commercial rated bathroom exhaust fan. The electricians configured it with a three-pronged plug that just plugs into the side of this unit that I got from Harry's Garden Center online. The unit just plugs into a normal outlet.
 
BTW - That danish tank is gone aswell.... I think he`s wife kinda fund out what the price on running that thing was :D
 
Jamesurq said:
One thing I like better about Mr.4000 - he doesn't scubadive in a bananna hammock...:worried:
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ROTFLMAO!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

When I first read it, I was like, huh, bananna hammock? Because I hadn't looked at the pictures, but now that I see...that was hilarious.
 
Mr4000 I read your website a long time ago and was really awed at the size of your tank. What it must be like to have that much room in a tank? Hope you don't mind, but here is a pic of your tank I used as a background for my computer years ago.
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