Just bought a 125 gallon aquarium

just curious..is the 125 glass or acrylic?

acrylic tanks seem to insulate better than glass. it may help with the heater issue.

you should be fine with the set up you propose.
 
Glass or acrylic

It's a glass aquarium. In fact, i believe it to be an all-glass brand.
 
that thing is gonna weigh a ton :thud:

I've got a 110 all glass..it's heavy..where are you going to put it?

I added supports to the floor . under my house where I am putting my 110.

if it's a ground floor with a concrete base you'll be fine.(just one thing to consider)
 
maybe you could try a jack dempsey or other cichlids in there i think there they best and you could get a nice cichlid colony in there.


nate
 
Yep, go big. Big cichlids = awesomeness!
 
Starting the cycle

Ok, one more thought, could i sort of "Jump start" the cycle in my new tank by running my NEW filter in my well established 30 gallon tank for a couple weeks? I understand that bacteria still needs to colonize the substrate, but i'm wondering if a pre-colonized filter media would help things along? (make it less stressfull on my cycleing fish) Also, what effect would it have on my 30 gallon tank when i removed the extra filter?

I'm not nessicarily trying to speed up the cycle, i can let it run it's course and i plan to stock the tank slowly, just wondering if this plan would make things a little smoother.

Thanks

Oh, and yes the Eheim 2128 has the 210 watt heater built into it, and the floor under my new aquarium is solid, i added another post just to be certain, but the previous owners of the house had a king size waterbed in this room for 20 years and the floor is still very close to level. (which is good for a house built in 1890)
 
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GuZZiZZiT said:
Ok, one more thought, could i sort of "Jump start" the cycle in my new tank by running my NEW filter in my well established 30 gallon tank for a couple weeks? I understand that bacteria still needs to colonize the substrate, but i'm wondering if a pre-colonized filter media would help things along? (make it less stressfull on my cycleing fish) Also, what effect would it have on my 30 gallon tank when i removed the extra filter?
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That will speed up the process by leaps and bounds! No harm to the "donor" tank when you remove the extra filter. You're going to run both while you 'season' the new filter, yes?

I'm not nessicarily trying to speed up the cycle, i can let it run it's course and i plan to stock the tank slowly, just wondering if this plan would make things a little smoother.
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It sure will! That's the advantage of setting up "another" tank, versus setting up "your first" tank. Still, stocking slowly is always a good idea. Nothing wrong with wanting to speed up the cycle - you earned that right when you did the first one from scratch.

(which is good for a house built in 1890)
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I bet that's a cool house I love old houses. The ones they build now don't have the character.
 
a 125....I would do a Jag. Unless you want a community tank. Then I would do 2 JD, 1 male 1 female, and some synos and Raph cats.

Or possibly a Texas Cichlid and something else.

Some have had success keeping JAgs with other fish in larger tanks so you might try that as well.
 
Thank you, yes i'm planning to keep the donor tank filtering as it is, just borrow some bacteria for my new tank. yeah, i've always loved old homes too, there a bit of a struggle (very few outlets) but it's a lobor of love in my opinion.

Thanks again
 
About the heater solution... I've run 2 heaters for a while and always found that one was working 'fulltime' while the other was working only under extreme circumstances...

This is because it's difficult to calibrate both to EXACTLY the same temperature... One will always kick-in just before the other.

So I would still recommend just one (if possible)... two if you can trigger BOTH to heat simultaneously, perhaps by an independent controller.
 
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