MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
so i've been working the last few months on a house and a tank move/upgrade.
this is a little piece i wanted to share as a cautionary tale to all, the lessons here being:
1. check your fitment
2. check it again
3. have a Plan B
4. have a Plan C
5. have a Plan D
the tank i'm putting together is a 160 Oceanic RR, bought it used and it came with the stand and the hood. the tank is 18" deep, so the inside of the stand is less than that, around 16.5".
no problem, i thought, a 55 gallon tank is only 12 inches wide and will fit great. so i obtained a previously loved 55 gallon, measured, planned, and got glass baffles cut, siliconed them in with enough silicon to seal the Titanic, and got ready for the install.
oops.
that's a massive face-palm right there.
no worries. i'll drop it in from the top. so i enlisted my ever gracious brother to help me move the tank off the stand (after he was already kind enough to help me drag this thing cross-town in the first place) and went to drop it in from the top.
for those not aware, a 160 weighs approximately as much as your average collapsed sun. so moving it, even a few feet, is no easy task.
guess what? didn't fit in the top of the stand either.
oops. so much for Plan B.
no problem, we can stick it in from the back.
that's a big bowl of nope. so much for Plan C.
so finally, call up the LFS and ask what they have. a 30 gallon long? sounds amazing.
no fancy baffles right now, but you know what? it works.
these are the little things you sometimes have to learn the hard way.
so check your fitment. don't assume something will fit, and for the love of all that is holy, have a backup plan. then have a backup plan, for the backup plan, and another backup plan for that backup plan.
cheers! :beer:
this is a little piece i wanted to share as a cautionary tale to all, the lessons here being:
1. check your fitment
2. check it again
3. have a Plan B
4. have a Plan C
5. have a Plan D
the tank i'm putting together is a 160 Oceanic RR, bought it used and it came with the stand and the hood. the tank is 18" deep, so the inside of the stand is less than that, around 16.5".
no problem, i thought, a 55 gallon tank is only 12 inches wide and will fit great. so i obtained a previously loved 55 gallon, measured, planned, and got glass baffles cut, siliconed them in with enough silicon to seal the Titanic, and got ready for the install.
oops.
that's a massive face-palm right there.
no worries. i'll drop it in from the top. so i enlisted my ever gracious brother to help me move the tank off the stand (after he was already kind enough to help me drag this thing cross-town in the first place) and went to drop it in from the top.
for those not aware, a 160 weighs approximately as much as your average collapsed sun. so moving it, even a few feet, is no easy task.
guess what? didn't fit in the top of the stand either.
oops. so much for Plan B.
no problem, we can stick it in from the back.
that's a big bowl of nope. so much for Plan C.
so finally, call up the LFS and ask what they have. a 30 gallon long? sounds amazing.
no fancy baffles right now, but you know what? it works.
these are the little things you sometimes have to learn the hard way.
so check your fitment. don't assume something will fit, and for the love of all that is holy, have a backup plan. then have a backup plan, for the backup plan, and another backup plan for that backup plan.
cheers! :beer:
