We have finally set our go-live date for 2 mos from now. So I thought it was finally time to get our build thread started.
This will be our first tank ever. We never had any interest in freshwater and no experience keeping fish. My wife and I went to the local zoo last summer. They had sea horses. We thought they were cool and figured surely we could build a tank for seahorses, couldn't be that hard right? My son liked nemo. Maybe sea horses and a couple of Nemos. Yeah, that's what we were going to do. I had visions of a little Biocube, how complicated could it really be?!
So we started doing some research and found this site. Wow talk about an eye opener, I quickly realized I had a TON to learn before I could even consider a tank. And of course sea horses quickly fell off of our future livestock list. So we researched and studied for 6 mos and were getting ready to pull the trigger on a tank when I found a deal that was too good to be true for a used 200 DD. We had been looking at a 300 DD, but this deal was too good to pass up. So in January I bought the tank for my wife's birthday present. Back to the research for another 6 mos. Once I was comfortable with measurements and components we started our build a full year after deciding we were going to do this.
By the time we finally get water in the tank it will be 1 1/2 years since deciding we were going to do this. I have 2 mos to get everything else put together and ready for our go live date of mid-November. Hopefully I can get it all done, still have a lot to get ironed out in 2 most.
Found this used tank on Craigslist. 200 gallon Marineland Deep Dimension with metal halide light fixture, skimmer, sump, stand, and canopy. Ended up selling the components that came with it that I wasn't going to use and by the time that was finished I got the tank, stand and canopy for virtually nothing.
Aquarium Marineland Deep Dimension w/Starphire Glass 200 Gal (48x36x27)
Stand Marineland Deep Dimension Stand (Monterey Black (48x36x27))
Canopy Marineland Canopy (Montery Black)
This will be our first tank ever. We never had any interest in freshwater and no experience keeping fish. My wife and I went to the local zoo last summer. They had sea horses. We thought they were cool and figured surely we could build a tank for seahorses, couldn't be that hard right? My son liked nemo. Maybe sea horses and a couple of Nemos. Yeah, that's what we were going to do. I had visions of a little Biocube, how complicated could it really be?!
So we started doing some research and found this site. Wow talk about an eye opener, I quickly realized I had a TON to learn before I could even consider a tank. And of course sea horses quickly fell off of our future livestock list. So we researched and studied for 6 mos and were getting ready to pull the trigger on a tank when I found a deal that was too good to be true for a used 200 DD. We had been looking at a 300 DD, but this deal was too good to pass up. So in January I bought the tank for my wife's birthday present. Back to the research for another 6 mos. Once I was comfortable with measurements and components we started our build a full year after deciding we were going to do this.
By the time we finally get water in the tank it will be 1 1/2 years since deciding we were going to do this. I have 2 mos to get everything else put together and ready for our go live date of mid-November. Hopefully I can get it all done, still have a lot to get ironed out in 2 most.
Found this used tank on Craigslist. 200 gallon Marineland Deep Dimension with metal halide light fixture, skimmer, sump, stand, and canopy. Ended up selling the components that came with it that I wasn't going to use and by the time that was finished I got the tank, stand and canopy for virtually nothing.
Aquarium Marineland Deep Dimension w/Starphire Glass 200 Gal (48x36x27)
Stand Marineland Deep Dimension Stand (Monterey Black (48x36x27))
Canopy Marineland Canopy (Montery Black)
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