bob21115
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This is my second attempt at a large reef tank. My first tank was bought used on eBay in Oct of 2003. One of those just add water and live stock. The tank was a 240 Clarity Plus acrylic tank about 10 years old and I was the third owner, so I found out later. After a large water change sometime in April I noticed a crack in the side. Thank God it wasn't leaking.
Crack in old tank
I found this crack in the morning and spent the entire day in a panic. Long story short:
My wife said order a new tank. I got lucky and a local tank builder felt sorry for me a said they could have a tank done in a week. It would be a 300 gallon 96x24x30 all side ¾ in and top and bottom ½. I spent a whole next day finding 2 150-gallon Rubbermaid stock tanks and plumbing them together. At about 3 am I had all live rock move into one tank and the livestock into the other tank. Here comes the first mistake: After removing all of the live sand I dumped a 5-gallon bucket of live sand in the tank with the livestock. Needless to say I lost all my fish but on female gold stripe maroon clownfish.
I knew the old stand wouldn’t hold the new tank, so a new stand was built. The new tank was delivered on a Monday late in the day. I spent 2 or 3 days pluming the tank to one of the 150-gallon sumps in the basement below the tank.
Tank on new stand sand bed, LR and water in.
This is our cat Smitty. I came home from HD and this is what I found.
Crack in old tank
I found this crack in the morning and spent the entire day in a panic. Long story short:
My wife said order a new tank. I got lucky and a local tank builder felt sorry for me a said they could have a tank done in a week. It would be a 300 gallon 96x24x30 all side ¾ in and top and bottom ½. I spent a whole next day finding 2 150-gallon Rubbermaid stock tanks and plumbing them together. At about 3 am I had all live rock move into one tank and the livestock into the other tank. Here comes the first mistake: After removing all of the live sand I dumped a 5-gallon bucket of live sand in the tank with the livestock. Needless to say I lost all my fish but on female gold stripe maroon clownfish.
I knew the old stand wouldn’t hold the new tank, so a new stand was built. The new tank was delivered on a Monday late in the day. I spent 2 or 3 days pluming the tank to one of the 150-gallon sumps in the basement below the tank.
Tank on new stand sand bed, LR and water in.
This is our cat Smitty. I came home from HD and this is what I found.