What would you do with this tank?

[Fitz19d]

Friend of mine from work got this from a house he bought and was left behind.Owed me a favor of sorts so I said why not. It's a 48x18x30 110?gallon acrlyic tank. Peninsula? style with the overflow at one end and 2 holes drilled.

It is kinda rough, I havn't looked closely for scratches, but it certainly has a ton of ancient coraline on it and dusty and debris from storage for what looks like a year or two probably.

I was looking at other ideas or which of the options I did think of otherwise. (To support my 300g build) I thought about using it as my sump but between the extreme depth and the fairly small openings because of the acrylic bracing didnt think it would be as ideal as just a 125g.

1: Sell it, I never messed with acrylic so I don't know what kind of price? I need to clean it up but don't think I'm keen on buffing it if needed myself, so certainly at a big discount.

2: Keep water volume below overflow and use it as a big QT tank?

3: Get an extra pump in sump, and run this as a remote fuge? Use the overflow already in it to return to main 125g sump? Then can just turn off pump to seperate it for QT? Other reasons to maybe use it is I'm starting to research trying to keep live food culture if I do attempt a cuttlefish tank.

4: ???

 

[bat21]

#3 sounds like the best idea to me.

 

[Fitz19d]

I forgot to say, the only drawback I saw to that is just the added cost of an extra 100 gallons of saltwater to heat and making my water changes all the larger. (300g unsure if just a standard 40Breeder would be fine for some things to qt like medium sized tangs or triggers/whatever.)

 

[homer1475]

I personally would either sell it or use it for #3.

 

[MMacro]

If I were you I would do #3

 

[Fitz19d]

Any thoughts to value? Here's a pic. The back side doesn't seem to have much in the way of scratches. Am I looking at $40 v 100 v 250 would matter to my choice. (Worth enough I'd find something else that fits my needs more ideally.)

 

[username in use]

I think it carries more value as your fuge (#3) than it does in terms of a sellable item.

 

[Fitz19d]

I havnt gotten to researching yet, anyone have thoughts for breeding any of the following: Mysis, large isopod/amphipod, ?? if I decide to flirt with doing a cuttlefish tank with the 300DD?

 

[Fitz19d]

What about a cryptic section? Seems like it may be overlarge or I have some problem trying to imagine enough microfauna going thru overflow and down standpipe rather than just settling or hanging out low in the tank or overflow. (30 inch tall tank)

What about deep sand bed in conjunction with crpytic? Or maybe better off as a refugium?

Wasn't sure how well macro would grow if im planning an ATS.