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Its a 24000 BTU Sanyo.Sanyo has a 6 year warranty on all parts and labor.You can get yourself a cheaper brand.You will pay a lot less for a cheaper china model.Most of these units are made in China or Korea anyways.You can get a cheap 12 000 BTU unit for as low as $1100.Probably less in the U.S.Here in Canada we seem to want to pay more for things!My buddy bought like 50 cheap units and had problems with a few of them but you will save money in the end.If you have someone that will install for you at a good price then you are fine.If you find them at HD try to get them to install if the price is good.This way you will get them to warranty the unit or get someone who knows what he is doing.Its not something that you can do yourself.Pipes have to be silver solder and the unit must be filled with refrigerant.Its not a DIY project like a window unit.
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by the way i forgot to add in my last post.
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Harleyguy, on your stand, consider this, do you like bending down to see the tank?...NO
I dont thats why I had my stand made 47" tall, add 24" of tank and the fish swims in front of me as I am standing in front of the tank, BTW I am 6'2", it may be difficult to clean, but you are going to use a small ladder anyway. thanks for your tour, steel rain baby Jose |
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Hope you have long arms. Mine was going to be same size and I changed it from 36" to 30" and glad I did.
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I will keep typical reef safe fish. I plan on computer system for control (haven't decided which one yet). I will have a large refugium, and probably 2 large sumps, QT tank, and grow-out tank. I think I'm going to jump on the band-wagon and build my own skimmer, but I will buy a GEO reactor. I'm not going to run Ozone, but I will have a couple of media chambers. I had a 300 Gpd ro/di, and it was really overkill. I will most likely go with a 100 Gpd and a 50 Gpd as a back-up. I will also have a mixing tank set-up. I am thinking around 3 pumps right now 1 CL and 2 returns. Skimmer will be gravity fed. I am ordering the tank with 6 drains 3x2" and 3x1.5" (better to much than not enough). I'm not sure exactly how much flow I am going to need and welcome suggestions.
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12 x 60 x 36 will require at least 1" if not 1.25" acrylic. As far as depth, go with at least 36". That's how deep my 500 is and the tall SPS look stunning. I have some colonies from frags to over 24' tall, before I had a pruning party. I think you will need a way to move your lights off the tank. So you can get across the top to help reach the bottom. I used heavy duty roller guides to slide the light rack back off the tank. This gives me 30" to the ceiling....
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I would make the inside stand clearance 36" Don't know why, but even numbers always seem to work...
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ricks, sounds good 36" it is... That was easy...
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My bad... I was absent that day, glass it is. My tank is 96 x 36 x 36 I run (6) 400 watt on HQI , (4) 160 watt VHO's and (4) 96 watt PC's. I Have grown SPS frags at the bottom of the tank. I think as long as you go no deeper than 36" 400's will work just fine. With good reflectors you might get by with (8) for SPS...
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Why did you need the PC's and VHO’s wasn’t the MH enough? Or are they for off hours viewing? I wasn't planning on PC or VHO should I? I didn't have either on my last tank?
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BTW tank builder said it would weigh about 1200 lbs... anyone want to help me move it???
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jnarowe had a problem with the ecotech(power heads).They crazed his tank due to the heat of the motor.I don't like the look of powerheads either.I bought a wave box.I know its and eye sore but at least its a box
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I get it now Steve, I can be slow at times...
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done that! dont want to do it again! good luck with the instillation of that bad boy. its going to cost you a lot of pizza and beer!
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Pizza and beer I can do...
And I'll be happy if that's all it takes.. lol
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