my new 180 gallon tank

hello all this will be my first tank which i have put together with a plan in mind rather than buying someones used tank and then filling it with water

it is 8 feet long and i have plans to put in black sandblasting sand that people use here at the regina aquarium club, going to make interior back wall with pieces of granite im getting from a memeorial place and getting six kigoma frontosa and a l226 pleco from spencer from afishcinado

wondering if i could put eretmodus yanstictus (kasanga, isanga & zambia ) & tanganicodus irsacae (kigoma) gobies in this tank with them

i will be keeping a photo journal for this build and would like ideas if you wish

thanks chef james

ok an update for yall

we got the tank moved into the university and over the next month i will be getting it up an running, here is a video of our restaurant and i will be doing a video journal on youtube of the transformation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjMzLeIy5w

look forward to your thoughts on this as i am considering input as i do this

chef james

ok had a few details with the partner here at soup r man and he is now out for the count so i placed my 180g and am filling it up today to start to get it ready will post pics in days to come

i measured wrong it is actually a 6 footer

my biggest tank ive ever done was a 230g about 12 years ago

i thought i would do this as a build thread so people could see what im putting together and how im planning it out

lights mechatronics uf80a12 with ultraviolet resources international lights 2-fr48t12/uho and 2 fr48t12/bp actinic white vho-1 bulbs

i will initially use visitherm heaters 200w and 100w as the room temp never really changes here and the lights kick off some serious heat i want to see what the water temp runs at without using lots of heat

for filtration im gonna start of with a aqua clear 500 for the cycle of the tank to which i cleaned the sponge from some of my other tanks an put the water from that through the filter for the water when i put it in i use a mix of tetra aqua aquasafe and wardley complete conditioners and will be hitting the water with prime to add a finishing touch to the water and will run the tank with nothing in it

i will be adding on a fluval 304 and a fluidized river bed filter for added filtration i also have 2 aquatech 3ph powerheads i intend to use for water movement i have a dual 6watt air pump that im gonna use to put an air wall at the back of the tank

after much thought i have decided that i will do this tank as a new world river tank with geophagus and gymnogeophagus as a population base

for substrate i have a 70g tank that has a sand bed that is about 1.5 years old that i am thinking of syphoning out to place in this tank dont know about that yet though