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Post by AquaticEngineer June 4th 2011, 10:53 pm

Here's some pics of the tank and stand I just got for free Very Happy There are a few extra holes in it, but I'm going to utilize all the holes at towards the bottom of the tank for a closed loop and hook the auto feeder into it. Some of the holes I will have to patch though still.

Tank is made of 3/4" and measures 66"x20"x36"

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Post by Hero June 8th 2011, 4:43 pm

Nice! What are you thinking of putting in it?
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Post by AquaticEngineer June 8th 2011, 6:27 pm

I think this is going to house all of my heavily fed NPS inverts so that I can have an effective closed loop system that will run an auto feeder on it.
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Post by Brent June 12th 2011, 7:07 pm

Sexy dimensions.
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Post by Hero June 12th 2011, 7:12 pm

Hopefully you have really long arms and gloves to reach into freezing temperatures if needed Wink.
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Post by Brent June 12th 2011, 7:14 pm

Pfft, he can handle it. Cool
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Post by AquaticEngineer June 13th 2011, 12:31 am

Pufferfreak wrote:Hopefully you have really long arms and gloves to reach into freezing temperatures if needed Wink.

I'm 6'5" so I got the long arm thing on lock down, lol.
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Post by Hero June 13th 2011, 6:20 pm

I wouldn't mind seeing an eel in there *hint*. It would be quite a mission getting it out if there if you ever needed to though. So it's better to probably not.
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Post by AquaticEngineer June 13th 2011, 10:21 pm

I'll be happy with the 36" deep tank, since I almost bought that 48" deep tank Shocked Imagine trying to get an eel out of there right?
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Post by Bluntokian June 14th 2011, 1:08 pm

Oh my god. Reading this I just see: Catastrophe,Comment,Catastrophe. Razz
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Post by AquaticEngineer June 14th 2011, 1:54 pm

Bluntokian wrote:Oh my god. Reading this I just see: Catastrophe,Comment,Catastrophe. Razz

Laughing Worst case scenario I flood my garage and I have use up a lot of salt.

I'm patching a bunch of the holes and only using the nicely drilled ones along the bottom on the back panel, and the two at the very bottom of the tank.

Everything else will get patched from the inside and then the sides will have a 1/2" black acrylic panel attached to reinforce them and help with sweating.
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Post by AquaticEngineer June 14th 2011, 1:59 pm

AquaticEngineer wrote:
Bluntokian wrote:Oh my god. Reading this I just see: Catastrophe,Comment,Catastrophe. Razz

Laughing Worst case scenario I flood my garage and I use up a lot of salt.

I'm patching a bunch of the holes and only using the nicely drilled ones along the bottom on the back panel, and the two at the very bottom of the tank.

Everything else will get patched from the inside and then the sides will have a 1/2" black acrylic panel attached to reinforce them and help with sweating.
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Post by Bluntokian June 14th 2011, 3:11 pm

Oh I figure you know how to patch a tank (I hope 0.o) I meant with the eel and a 3 foot tall tank lol.
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Post by AquaticEngineer October 11th 2011, 2:14 pm

Didn't end up with any eels in the tank, but I have two 8"+ Rock Pricklebacks in there. I have to use an extendable turkey baster thing with a plastic feeding stick on the end to feed them chunks of shrimp.
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Post by Hero October 11th 2011, 11:41 pm

Are they voracious killers? Pictures would be much appreciated. Very Happy
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Post by AquaticEngineer October 12th 2011, 2:31 am

Hero wrote:Are they voracious killers? Pictures would be much appreciated. Very Happy

More so than any of the other fish. They are the only ones who I see actively hunting the burrowing bay shrimp I have in there.

Heres a pic of the smaller one from tonight

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Also my massive green anemone

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Post by Hero October 15th 2011, 1:51 pm

Nice pics!

And you have two of those?
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Post by AquaticEngineer October 15th 2011, 2:48 pm

Yeah 2 of them, one was lost in the lobster tanks sump for 6 months and is much smaller than the other.
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Post by Hero October 15th 2011, 3:25 pm

Interesting. Have they formed little territories in the tank?
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Post by AquaticEngineer October 15th 2011, 3:44 pm

Yeah they have, but they never fight.
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Post by Hero October 19th 2011, 12:31 am

That's good.
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