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I did all the work myself, even the room. You can ge to the tank from the out side of the room. scottie

here is a pic of my recently finished 300gal built in wall tank. I did all the work myself!!! scottie

ok, i have been online reading about saltwater tanks. I have just opened up a 75gal tank and want to start a SW tank. The 75gal was a Freshwater tank is this going to be a problem? Ok, I do need to start out Small!!! I plan on it taking a while to get all up and running. i can't come up...

Thank you very much! That is the info i was looking for! scottie

ok, i am new. I want to turn my 75 gal tank into a saltwater tank. now i have read alot and have heard terms FO and others. i know its "Fish Only" Ok, lets make this easy! I want to have some nice fish, some Live rock that has some cool little piggy backers. and it would be cool to...

NEW QUESTION I was doing some calc. amd did the one for Stand pipe size. it said for 1000gph i needed min. 1.31" pipe. so Dual 1.25 will work great! but it had a Min. Linear Overflow Size. 15" ???? what is that? the lenght of the pipe? scottie

thats what i was looking for!!!!!!! a min. of sump size i need. for a 150 gal tall tank that has a 2" above stand. flowing at 1000gph i would need a min. of 20gal tank. so i'll make a min. of 30 gal. maybe 40 gal. i got room under the tank. thanks scottie

that dose help!! thanks scottie

how do i fingure out how much water will drain down after shut down? is there a way of figuring it out? scottie

well, i haven't decided on what will go in it. i have the chance to get all plexi i need for tank and sump for free. so i'm going to build it and ether store it till later or decide after built. scottie

ok, how do i decide what size sump i want. the tank is a 150 gal tall. 48L x 31H x 24W i am going to have two 1.25" stand pipes and i want to flow about 1000gph. what size sump do i need? i'm sure a 30gal is two small. i plan to build it but need a size. scottie

SWEET, thats what i was looking for scottie

the stand pipe i plan on using is one like the 180 reef.com So, if i am running Dual 1.25" pipes i can flow over 2400gph? !!! :) !!! thats what i'm wanting to know! so if i have a 1000gph pump it can flow full open and it will not over flow the tank!! scottie

I guess my big question is: i want to flow 900gph. what size stand pipes do i need to get this? there a single set up or dual set ups. scottie

I don't under stand "PRESSURE"? stand pipes are not pressureized. it is a gravity fed stand pipe to the sump. I am planning on putting 2 - 1.25" pvc stand pipes the type that when the water is higher then the pipe it runs down the pipe to the sump. how many GPH can i figure that the...

what size sump do i need to build for my 150gal tank? and about how much bio-media? scottie

ok, i'm building a 150 gal tank. I'm going to use a dual stand pipe to take water to sump. what size stand pipe do i need? to flow about 800-900gph? Or what GPH will a 1.25" pipe flow? scottie

ok, i'm in the same spot, Bill WAY to high! how do you figure out how much a heater, filter, pump, what ever is using? like on a light bulb 100w, is that 100w a hour? I'm hoping to figure out how much my aquarium stuff is using. I know the heaters are kind of hard, on and off all the time...

well i'm not sure what to do with the yet. this is my first batch, I am going to go around and see if i can get store credit for them. Even .25 cent or .50 cent each would be great. I plan to wait till they are about 1". If i can credit them, i'll ether give to friends or to the store. My...

ok, i have had my black convict fry in a 10g tank seperate from mom & dad. I just saw today that there are two fry left in the 20g with mom & dad. now the two look alittle bigger and better color then the ones in the ten gallon. Should i try to split up the fry in to two 10g tanks? I have...