Looking to upgrade

[kien]

Originally Posted by new2reef

So i should take into consideration my busy schedule when deciding. I haven't had any trouble so far with my cube but its pretty basic.

Yes :-)

And as subman suggested, go poking around in the build threads of the larger tanks, or at least the tanks with similar sizes to what you are interested in and see the effort that went into the build process as well as ongoing maintenance. Ask the builder lots of questions like, what is their husbandry like. What day to day, week to week, month to month routines do they have to maintain the tank. And don't forget to ask them if they have kids or not

[Aquattro]

One little baby isn't going to get in the way. I set up my 180 just after mine arrived. That includes 158 days at hospital, managing 4 dogs and a house and a job. Still had time to build and manage a tank. Go for it!

[kien]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

One little baby isn't going to get in the way. I set up my 180 just after mine arrived. That includes 158 days at hospital, managing 4 dogs and a house and a job. Still had time to build and manage a tank. Go for it!

But not everyone is a demigod like you Brad. Some of us are mere mortals

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by kien

But not everyone is a demigod like you Brad. Some of us are mere mortals

How many kids you have? And how many tanks were you running? plus all the marathons, the training, the installing LED on spokes. You're a hero!!

[Coleus]

I agree with some posters here, wait until your newborn and see if you have any more spare time. You maybe glad that you did not set up the tank after all and wait for couple years before you can do anything.

About maintenance, it depends what you gonna have in your tank. if you just have a fowlr tank then you can skip maintenance for months if nothing breaks. I won't count cleaning glass as maintenance because i do that when viewing my tank. Also i found bigger tank is easier to manage than small tank because water parameter does not swing fast or crash fast.

[new2reef]

I would be going full reef tank i find them peaceful. And yeah glass cleaning is part of viewing.

[ktsalt]

Did you run it through the wife about getting a bigger tank??? Need I say more lol

[Coleus]

Originally Posted by new2reef

I would be going full reef tank i find them peaceful. And yeah glass cleaning is part of viewing.

are you interested in a 10feet tank any chance?

[ktsalt]

You will be posting your 24g tank in the buy/sell forum in a few weeks lol