If you could do it all over...

[asylumdown]

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.

[The Codfather]

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

[asylumdown]

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.

[scubadawg]

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

[The Grizz]

Working on my do over already

[ScubaSteve]

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.

[Mike-fish]

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.

[ensquire]

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

[lastlight]

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

[Xadieu]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

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.

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