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01-07-2004, 08:18 PM
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Large Project on the Mind!
Okay, believe it or not my soon 2 b wife has said I can work on a larger tank in the basement as funds come in to do so. Now I was thinking of setting up a Panaromic fish tank across one wall in the basement. I believe it is about 12' long. I was going to use 3 separate 4' fish tanks and build them into a custom stand so it looked like part of the wall. (Along an outside wall, not see through) I would hide the joints with the custom stand. I could then make the center tank, fish only, and the outside ones reefs and sort of bring everything together but not really. Anyone see possible problems or have any comments. This will take a couple of years to accomplish, of course
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01-07-2004, 08:30 PM
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Sounds like a great idea. Would they all run off the same sump or would you do completely seperate systems?
I just happen to have a complete 150 gallon (48x24x30") tank coming up for sale this spring...  Three of those would be a hefty 450 gallons.
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01-07-2004, 08:36 PM
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The only negative I see to that is you limit the type of fish you can keep because your still dealing with a 4ft tank. I think 2 x 6ft tanks would be a cool way to do this.
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01-07-2004, 08:39 PM
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That's a really good point. I didn't think of that.
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01-07-2004, 08:47 PM
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personaly I think its interesting, but at the same time i would save up a little longer and just get a 144"x30"x30", you can keep way more fish, allows for schools, impressive, easier to clean,easier to light, easier to plumb, easier to dose, and feed. And wouldnt really cost that much more than 3 x 4' tanks. JMHO
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01-07-2004, 09:33 PM
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I would never trust a glass tank that was 12 foot long.. what you could do is buy 4" bulkheads and conect each tank with two of them. this would allow water flow between the tanks so you only need one set of equipment and such.. also it would still alow you to insert a screan in the bulkhead if you wanted to prevent some fish from getting in to another section but still alow for easy water maintinance.
Steve
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01-07-2004, 09:42 PM
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on a 12' tank I would have no prolem with laminated layers of glas, but personally I would use acrylic...
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01-07-2004, 09:56 PM
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If it was me I'd go with one 8' main tank and one 4' (refugium/whatever won't be happy in the main 8' tank) tank with a bulkhead between the two(from the back of one to the back of the other so you can butt the tanks right up together). You'll be able to create 2 very different ecosystems that way. drain to the sump from the end of the 8' tank and flow the return back into the 4' fuge so you don't have to worry about micro bubbles at all in the 8' and you'll keep a steady flow of copepods coming that way too...
Just a thought  Evan.
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01-07-2004, 10:01 PM
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^ cool idea!
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01-07-2004, 11:27 PM
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The Only Problem is my size restriction on getting a tank to my basement. Also I like the Idea of getting some fish that would not be normally in our reef tank but make it look like it is in a reef tank. I was also going to treat them all seperately except only one sump. That way I could turn one off in case it cracked and the others would still run. That way I could add tanks as I get the money.
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