Amazing how fast you can toast a Coney Is bun with a split Nathans long dog in a good toaster over, dinner is served LOL, as my wife looked at me suspiciously as t why Im so happy. The tank and stand are under tarp in the back yard shed, thank goodness I installed that driveway gate LOL:naughty:.
The tank looks like any other acrylic when its empty and used :silly:, but I know they clean up well if cleaned up with the right stuff and the back where the scenery was tapped when removed looked like new. So at worst all I will have to do is use the pristine back and cut new canister lines for the back.
The top of the tank was cut with big slots by the original owner to accommodate two giant double cartridge HOB power filters that I believe say Maineland on the bottom as they where never cleaned and left to dry. Also included in a big wavy black under-gravel filter, the grids are huge and have humps rather then flat. Some big air pumps, heaters, and a wired looking HOB sterilizer bulb with a plastic black cover.
The top also has there wired metal metal black screens that fit into the top cut outs and two 24" light fixtures that have their own built in acrylic bottoms and the florescent tube sits inside.
Decorations include a few big synthetic rocks with caves.
The cheap blue epoxy sand I left there as I like natural river bed sand.
The stand is pine not Oak but is completely intact with 4 double doors and no rot. Unbelievably its a perimeter stand and even though it has a 6" perimeter flat base I never though it could be used successfully with acrylic due to sag. So besides refinishing I will also add a solid base.
Unfortunatly no wood canopy.
Because the setup is well used and very dirty due to draining and immediate storage, I told him it will required me allot of cleaning, polishing, and refinishing and no telling if any of the equipment will work. So we settled on a price of $70.
I plan to either give this tank set up or one of my glass 80 tanks to m 83 year old mother and set it all up and keep it serviced for her when I visit. I t all depends on which one looks best after clean up she will get the nicest set-up.
I'm sure your mother will love it. I'm looking forward to seeing this beast all cleaned up. Congrats on the find! Great deal!