Do you have a 150 or bigger tank????

Almondsaz

Almondsaz

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I am looking at a 150 and wanted to know if you thought that going from a smaller tank to the larger tank was a big change? What lessons did you learn from your set-up that you could share so I might not make the same mistakes.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to help! :)
 
DId you buy glass or acrylic?
 
scootrnerd said:
glass the guy says"oh yeah it holds water" i bought it on cl got it home and it held for three days and then crack/splash 150 gallons in my garage!
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At least it was in your garage? lol... with my luck it would last long enough to move EVERYTHING into it then it would be the 20 minutes I was away from the house and I would come back to a flood and dead everything.

To be honest the only thing that I learned from going from small to semi large was all the cool things I got to do. Skimmer, Sump, Overflows, etc etc. All the things I didn't even really know about with a smaller tank. It was MUCH easier to maintain a larger tank other than the water changes are still annoying! =)
 
vorlx said:
At least it was in your garage? lol... with my luck it would last long enough to move EVERYTHING into it then it would be the 20 minutes I was away from the house and I would come back to a flood and dead everything.

To be honest the only thing that I learned from going from small to semi large was all the cool things I got to do. Skimmer, Sump, Overflows, etc etc. All the things I didn't even really know about with a smaller tank. It was MUCH easier to maintain a larger tank other than the water changes are still annoying! =)[/quote

yeah the wife wouldn't let me bring it in the house lol. jk i was planning on an in wall but it fell through no pun intended .
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I can tell you that the only change besides the amount of water taken out of during a water change is the better stability of a larger volume of water. Cost is also a factor being lr/sand and lighting (if you are going reef) but with more room = more bigger fish and more fish.
 
I have a 210, but I started with it, so I really have no comparison for you. I do love the tank, I have to say, even though I don't have a ton of livestock in it yet. Once I got past the initial set up and prep, it really is pretty easy to maintain. Water changes are about the biggest pain so far(I haven't had to extract a fish yet). I need to upgrade a few things, but what I have works well for now.
I also test filled it in my garage for a week, but that was because I resealed it. 210 gallons of water on my garage floor is preferable to 210 gallons on my house floor.
Robbie
 
Thanks all.
 
I started with a 60 gal and upgraded to 182gal. If I could do it again, I'd go for one that was only 2' high instead of 3' and longer as I do have problems reaching the bottom!!! It was a pain aquascaping. As the others have said the cost involved with regard to salt, sand, rock etc is a down side but the upside is that I have never had such a stable tank (set up 9 months now).
 
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