the wall that it is sitting on is 6ft long and i have 12ft ceilings. The skimmer pictured is a euroreef 400 with the 4 pump option. this thing is rated for somewhere in the 400 gallon range, hopefully it will be enough until i can get my bubble king…
here are some pics, it will only let me upload 3 at a time, but ill start loading them. The little looking tank in the picture is a 75g just for referance. That is my sump lol
yeh ill definitely need help, i jsut got home myself, ended up spending 4 hours talking to the guy i got the calcium reactor from, we can build these, its a DIY reactor.
hmmm i decided to start a build thread about my tank. Sooo.... here goes.
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Ive been searching and searching for a large tank that was in my budget, and in my size range. Shopped Craigslist for months and finally i found one in Grand Prairie. i was…
i will be in Dallas on friday, we might try to load the tank Friday night and then just drive back saturday morning. Luke, ill more then likely take you up on the offer lol ill need all the help i can get wrestling this thing into the house
lol Brad.... thats a little out of my caliber my friend :) Beautiful tank though. i put a deposit down on that 265 in Dallas, and i will be picking it up the weekend after i get home.
We both dose 2 part additives but are probably going to switch to reactors next year when we have a little more cash.
My tank uses 40ml of Alk every day. I have a dosing pump on it right now. but like the idea of how maint free cal reactors are once you get them set up. here is an excellent article on calcium reactors.
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sorry i didnt under stand what you ment if you get it call me befor you put it in your tank so i tell you how to check for the mantis shrimp if you call him leave a message and he will call you back hes a cool cat.