Why isnt anyone posting.

You guys better quit it. :D I'm still working on hubby. Problem is, he wants to put it upstairs. I say no way. I don't want a 185 sitting on the roof of my TA in the garage downstairs!! :eek2:
 
Aw bummer. I heard back from the seller today and the tank is acrylic. I'm not interested in an acrylic tank.

If anyone else is, though, give me a holler and I'll PM the phone number of the seller.
 
Okay, one more post. I don't post for months, and now I hammer the board in one day.

We decided to pass on the 185, but we did go this afternoon and bought a used 240 gallon. It's already drilled and ready to go, so we bit the bullet and bought it.

Anyone in the market for a 125, stand, and hood? :D
 
$350 negotiable...I can take some pics tomorrow and hopefully get them posted. If I can't post them I can e-mail some for sure if you're interested.

It's an oak finish All-Glass brand, about a year and a half old. It's just the tank, stand, hood, and light though...all of the sand and live rock got recycled into the 55 gallon quarantine tank that we have or will go back in the 240.
 
hey, did you pick up the used 240 from the mad reefer?

if so, i had to keep pulling myself away from it... :D

let us know if you need help building simple overflow boxes around the drain holes. if i remember correctly there are no boxes in that tank. right?

also, with that height of a tank, you should probably consider 400w halides over the 250w depending on what you plan to keep.
 
Ben, you're not the other guy who was thinking of buying it, are you?? If so, I'm sorry if I snatched it out from under you. :D . But, you don't see those everyday, and that one was right there in my face. The fact that it was already drilled did it for me. You're right, it doesn't have boxes in it, so we very well...I take that back, we WILL....need some advice in that area.

Unfortunately, we ordered the lights with the 125 in mind, and they are already on their way to us. I wonder if it's too late to change?
 
My old man would like your tank. Let me know if its still Avail. and i'll see if he wants to start heading down here. (He lives 2.5 hours away)
 
Sure, it's available. Send me an e-mail address and I'll send pictures of it. Nothing much to see besides an empty tank, but it's in great shape.

It will need new plastic strips on the backs of the glass hoods because they have been cut to fit our equipment, and the inside floor of the stand has some saltwater stain from a wet/dry overflow incident (don't ask!!), but that can't be seen from the outside. We'll clean it up and it will look show room new when he gets here.

I'll be out of the house all day today for Mother's Day, but will e-mail you our phone number and photos when we get home tonight.
 
Michelle L if you want different holes for the overflows or redundancy at all let me know I can show you how to drill the holes.
I can also give you some pointers or give you a hand building overflow boxes if you want to go that route.

IMHO I'd look at a glass shop to cut some 1/4" glass and have them edge all of the top pieces so they are not sharp, this is what I did and IMHO it was worth it.
 
Also check out LAU*** on EBAY they have all kinds of bits, you nee 38mm for 3/4" bulkheads (the lightweight ones) 45mm for 1" bulkheads
if you go 1" (I would) and you plan on doing more than 2 hole I'd get at least 2 bits as that glass on that tank is thick.

the bits are (if purchased one at a time) ~10 shipped and will take a week to get to you.

HTH

Lego
 
Thank you for the offer, Lego!! For now, I think we are OK. I really don't think I'd ever be so brave as to go near a tank with a drill bit. :eek2: I just don't have the guts to do it.

I'm still not sure what we'll be doing. I've been told by someone who knows what he's doing that we don't even really need overflow boxes. I guess we'll see.....what happens if I leave the bulkheads as they are and don't install overflow boxes? Fish get sucked up, rock gets sucked up, crabs get sucked up, or what??
 
the reason for an overflow "box" is to skim the surface of the water. ideally you want as much surface area for the box as possible. a long box going the entire length of your tank would be ideal.

this will feed your sump/refugium/skimmer the most nutrients.

this design would be a piece of cake to pull off. you just need two long pieces of glass and the hand of someone who has siliconed before. legoz did a top notch job on my box install. ;)
 
I would go with something that would let you place all your LR in the center with out it touching the back or sides. This way the fish could swim all the way arround the tank. would be a cool effect. I seen the tank also. Way Cool glad to know who got it. When did you buy it I was just there on Thursday.
 
I like the idea about the live rock arrangement. I also have always liked to place some closer to the front glass and create caves for the fish, because then they hide out closer to the front. I can't wait to get the tank home, but we are waiting on a stand to arrive for it. Should be here in another week or week and a half.

Ben, I'm not getting a mental picture of what you are describing. Do you mean that I should take two pieces of glass and silicone them into the shape of a conventional skimmer box in the back, or that I should take pieces of glass that run the whole length of the tank and silicone them in there?

Thanks!
 
You might want to come take a look at my setup...
Also do some reasearch on linear overflows or do a post is Reef Discussions or something and ask what they this is better... Stand pipe in the tank or linear overflow, there is a reason RC has a linear overflow size calc.
 
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