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Gigantic fish tank!

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#1 ·
So, my girlfriend's dad is a huuuuuge thrift store buff. He goes to a couple local thrift stores on an almost daily basis. Being fish geeks, my girlfriend asked him to keep an eye out for good deals on fish tanks.

So today, he calls her up and lets her know that he found a giant tank, stand and canopy included, for $400, but since he's such good buddies with the staff of the store he can talk them down to around $220 or so.

Get this: the tank measures ten feet long by 3 feet wide by 2.5 feet tall. By my calculations, that's roughly 560 gallons!

I think we're going to be buying the tank and keeping it in storage (i.e. in my mom's basement, haha) until we have a place big enough to hold such a monster tank.

I've only just received this news, so of course I have no idea what I'd keep in it, although I can think of more than a few things....
 
#11 ·
I'd say make it an in-ground swimming pool.
 
#13 ·
That is freakin awesome. What a deal. A tank that huge I would definitly not know what to put in it. It would take me forever to decide. A reef setup would be sick but I also think the schooling idea would be great also. Good luck with that handful of a tank!
 
#17 ·
That sounds awesome. But i'm picturing the possible disaster with that tank. 1 Gallon water = 8.3 lbs. 560 gallons x 8.3 = 4648 lbs. Add in the tank itself, plus rocks and gravel (and the kitchen sink), your talking 5000 lbs of weight. Make sure you have a heavy duty stand (like the frame from a new 1/2 ton pickup truck), and I would not recommend your 3rd floor apartment for such. Your 2nd, and 1'st floor neighbors would be rudely awaken when you get it full of water and it comes crashing down thru the shabby construction as a 5000lb space rock crashing into the earth. But all the possible bad aside that thing will be amazing once set up and running with the right stuff.
 
#20 ·
That sounds awesome. But i'm picturing the possible disaster with that tank. 1 Gallon water = 8.3 lbs. 560 gallons x 8.3 = 4648 lbs. Add in the tank itself, plus rocks and gravel (and the kitchen sink), your talking 5000 lbs of weight. Make sure you have a heavy duty stand (like the frame from a new 1/2 ton pickup truck), and I would not recommend your 3rd floor apartment for such. Your 2nd, and 1'st floor neighbors would be rudely awaken when you get it full of water and it comes crashing down thru the shabby construction as a 5000lb space rock crashing into the earth. But all the possible bad aside that thing will be amazing once set up and running with the right stuff.
I think that he said that he was not going to set it up until they moved to a new place.

heres what i would do.

i would get the biggest baddest protien skimmer that i could get my hands on and enough live rock to fill the tank. i would only put metal halides on 4-6 feet of the tank and stock lighting ( with atinics to match the coloration of the other lights )
i would have ALL reef safe livestock, you could even easily do a school of chromis. i would only keep corals in the 4 feet or so that the light is on but live rock all through out the tank. the end that doesnt have the strong lighting can have a sun coral to add coloration to that end of the tank. thats where i would atleast start, you can always add more halide pendants when your corals grow into colonies and move them down towards the other end of the tank.
That sounds very cool8)
 
#19 ·
heres what i would do.

i would get the biggest baddest protien skimmer that i could get my hands on and enough live rock to fill the tank. i would only put metal halides on 4-6 feet of the tank and stock lighting ( with atinics to match the coloration of the other lights )
i would have ALL reef safe livestock, you could even easily do a school of chromis. i would only keep corals in the 4 feet or so that the light is on but live rock all through out the tank. the end that doesnt have the strong lighting can have a sun coral to add coloration to that end of the tank. thats where i would atleast start, you can always add more halide pendants when your corals grow into colonies and move them down towards the other end of the tank.
 
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