If you could do it all over...
 

What would you do differently?

10 months in and there's things about my tank I wish I could change, and if I were to somehow be blessed with the opportunity to build another tank in to another house, I'd make some major design changes.

#1 - no internal overflow boxes. Man I hate them. They cause serious channeling of the vortechs and they take up so much bloody space.

#2 - longer tank. If you're in for a penny, you may as well be in for a pound

#3 - rigid quarantine procedure from day one. No making excuses about how much space and time it takes up. Getting something out of a tank is about 9 million times harder than keeping it out in the first place.

#4 - slightly different sump design. Right now micro bubbles can easily make it in to the display tank. oops.

Oh, man. Your tanks new! Better not let the better half read this.......

hehe, well we're already talking about selling this house, as it looked smaller on paper. So I'm trying to get ideas together for what the next one might look like.

I would keep my tank build the same but different dimensions, instead of original size, 60" X 30" X 24" Deep

I would go 72" x 26" high x 26" Deep, if I knew Tangs wanted the extra length

Working on my do over already :lol:

New sump. Oh god, I want a different sump. Frustrates me to no end. My current tank is my do over, so I got most things sorted when I built this tank. However, I ran out of time to build a custom sump and had to use a 15G Tall tank as my sump. Never had time since to make a new one and it's ****ed me off since day one.

Buy a new custom built tank rather than makeing a used one work for me. Biggest problem with the current one a pair of huge glass cross braces if go with a proper euro brace system. That and of course bigger 72x36x30 with external coast to coast with herbie drain. Might do closed loop as well.

Definitely bigger. Should have went with the 120 gallon this time instead of the 90.

If I had a bigger place it would be 400 gallons LOL

More builds. Feels like I'm always missing out on the fun.

Noted, I will consider all the following for my next tank :D