Rubbermaid tanks questions
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asnatlas
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The poly tank come with one drain plug near the bottom... The stock bulkhead (1.25") that comes with them sucks... I would replace them with a good bulk head with a plug...
You can replace the stock BH at the bottom and plug it off and drill a new hole near the top or you can replace the BH at the bottom and put a 90deg with a stand pipe cut to the height that you want to water level to be in the tub...
If you drill a new hole you will need to get a BH to avoid any leaks... I would stick to sched 80 BHs...
You can replace the stock BH at the bottom and plug it off and drill a new hole near the top or you can replace the BH at the bottom and put a 90deg with a stand pipe cut to the height that you want to water level to be in the tub...
If you drill a new hole you will need to get a BH to avoid any leaks... I would stick to sched 80 BHs...
asnatlas
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All you need is a pipe leading from the overflow on the display tank to the poly tank and then if you drill a new hole and place a BH in once the water reaches that new BH it will overflow into the next tank... Your last tank will not have any overflows on it because it will house the pump that would be pumping the water back to your display...
asnatlas
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2 or even 3 (if you have the room) 50gal poly tanks would work good... I would replace the original BHs on the tanks that you would want to overflow with a sched 80 1.5" and then 90deg it up and a stand pipe... In the last one just replace the original crappy BH with a 1" sched 80 and plug it off and place a return pump in there pumping the water back up to the highest one...
asnatlas
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For the rubbermaid poly tanks the smallest they come in are 50gal... From there they only get bigger... Up from the 50gal they have the 100gal, 150gal, and 300gal... Now you could prob go to your local feed (tractor) supply store and look around and find something that may work, but alot of those types of tank are about 50gal + I have used (and using a few of those) rubbermaid tanks and they are build very good... I have seen other stock tanks (non rubbermaid) that would work, but not build as nice...
MiddletonMark
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IMO, it's going to be hard to find something cheaper than the rubbermaid stock tanks ... and figuring `floor space' = more frags, IMO why go any smaller?
As mentioned above - I think the dimensions are just about the same tub to tub - the larger gallon ones are just taller. But IMO why undersize a prop tub?
As mentioned above - I think the dimensions are just about the same tub to tub - the larger gallon ones are just taller. But IMO why undersize a prop tub?
tekknoschtev
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As far as the poly stock tanks go, they all pretty much have the same foot print (which I found out when trying to fit one into my stand 
) as MiddletonMark said, they just get taller as they get larger. At least that holds true for the 50, 70, 100 gal ones. The 300gal might be a bigger footprint.
At Meynards next to the 50gal poly stock tanks were some slightly less rigid 30gal plastic containers meant for catching oil. When I have some time and money I'm planning on getting a few of those connected to my prop system since they'll fit into the stand, and provide me a good area to run an area for live rock, and another area for a DSB.
) as MiddletonMark said, they just get taller as they get larger. At least that holds true for the 50, 70, 100 gal ones. The 300gal might be a bigger footprint.At Meynards next to the 50gal poly stock tanks were some slightly less rigid 30gal plastic containers meant for catching oil. When I have some time and money I'm planning on getting a few of those connected to my prop system since they'll fit into the stand, and provide me a good area to run an area for live rock, and another area for a DSB.
tekknoschtev
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They werent the rubbermaid poly stock tanks - just were near them at Meynards. I've seen them at Home Depot, and Lowes as well.
