Need advice on a new 300 gallon

[Psionicdragon]

Can your floor support all that weight?

[Qwiv]

Originally posted by jedininja
While I completely agree that his tank is way overstocked and stocked way too quickly, I dont see the point of taking care of a 90 first. In the long run, it will take more money to upgrade twice. At least with a 300g, he wont be able to afford to max out the bioload very easily.

The hardest thing about having a big tank is the planning. Much harder then a fresh water tank and a nano. Until you have actually maintained a salt water tank, that you can't do a 50% water change from a salt bucket, you really have no idea what to plan for. The books help, but not enough. You can always pay someone or find a really experienced reefer I guess. If I designed the tank I have now, the way I designed my first tank, it would be a disaster. I am sure my next tank will be even better.

I think a 90 is a great tank to start with as you can run it off good equipment that you can later put on a 300 gal. You have the size and freedom to house the tang he has and some other cool fish. It isn't so big that you can't stock it. How does a newbie stock a 300 gal tank without making a million mistakes and spending to much money. He can stock a 90 and move the mature corals to a 300 to have much better tank then a 300 full of frags or wild colonies, that will likely die. He already has 5 to many fish in his current tank so you can see he has a bit to learn about stocking a salt water tank. I think the guy can totally learn everything he needs to know, but making a mistake on a smaller tank, is much cheaper.

Also, making a 6 figure salary around here doesn't mean you have money to burn. Ask anyone with a morgage and a car payment.

[kozwalter]

To answer everyone question;
My floor does support the weight.
Because I have lots of heavy tanks, I had concrete pour for that area of the house.
The reason i want a three hundredth gallon is that I hate to have to redo thing over again. And end up with a 90 and a 300 because I don't sell my tank once it in my house. It just a bad habbit.
I had also figure out a way to have water handy at all time.
I had bough an old 650 gallon drums and can have salt water pump in from a guy who pump water for lots of stores. He charges 1 buck a gallon and will drive to your house.
I've put this drum in my backyard and will have water pipe in soon, so no more salt bucket. Also, I also got an RODI unit put in a while back, because I use to have discus ( not anymore)


And I don't have money to burn, but I don't have a mortgage nor car payment, all are pay off. I lived the dot com and ride the wave.

[sfsuphysics]

Take a peak at this forum on the board

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/fo...s=&forumid=252

It deal specifically with large tanks, while there might be a few members that have gone beyond the 180g barrier here, in that other subforum they start at 180g and only get bigger. They'll probably be quite a bit more helpful to be perfectly honest.

[Bebo77]

check out my thread for ideas on a 3000 gallon....


click my red house

[Psionicdragon]

lol and i thought we were helping someone legit....

But anyways, lets keep this thread going. Its actually giving me more info on how to redo my tank http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/im...ons/icon10.gif
Talking

[sfsuphysics]

I think Bebo put one too many zeros in that number

[Psionicdragon]

Originally posted by sfsuphysics
I think Bebo put one too many zeros in that number

Hehe, I like Bebo's tank though.

[raddogz]

It sounds like you want a nice reef tank and a big one at that. It also sounds like money is not limitless, but you are willing to put a large sum of money into it and earnest in doing so.

So with that said, why don't you hire a company to do it for you? It can save you a ton of time, and let someone else do the thinking for you.

[Elite]

I was wondering why that nano looks so familiar ... Good catch Beerguy ..

[Psionicdragon]

For people's information, the original poster is associated with LGF is SJ.

Beerguy caught it.

[sid700]

How does one figure out these things?

1) How did you know Beerguy find out?

2) How did Beerguy know it was Lucky Goldfish (of SJ)?

[Psionicdragon]

IP address and/or similarity between the posters descriptions in their post.

Beerguy posted a response on another thread when LGF did a soft advertised promotion.

Originally posted by kozwalter

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...8#post10143188

Originally posted by beerguy
Bye vnog.

[Psionicdragon]

So anyways,

anyone with a large tank having heat issues because of the weather?

[Qwiv]

Mine is OK. Lights stayed off for the 2 days it was really hot.

[Qwiv]

Mine is OK. Lights stayed off for the 2 days it was really hot.