MitchM tank build

[MitchM]

Thanks Tony.
My wife is actually encouraging me to redo the saltwater tank, but like I said, if I can't properly intervene in an emergency, I don't want to do it.
The anenome was stuck in the powerhead for a few hours at least. I shut off the MP60 and let it be. It managed to crawl out and retreated to an upper dark corner of the tank, along with it's clownfish. It was brutal watching as the clownfish were able to swim in and out of the slits in the body of the anenome.

Still, the anemone has survived but the clownfish need to be kept away as I feed it. The clownfish will remove any food that the anemone tries to eat.

I found a 600g fw setup by a doctor over in India that looks to be successful:
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...highlight=600g

I have a lot to learn about fw water circulation and lighting though. I have my 2 4' ATI hybrids that are probably overkill for fw. Maybe just changing the bulbs and reducing the intensity will work.

We will see.

[Delphinus]

The solution is simple, really.

Bury one of these bad boys somewhere: http://www.rainharvest.com/norwesco-...k-102-wide.asp

Bam! 100% water change, whenever you like.

What's the frostline? It can't be more than 8 feet or so.

No need to thank me, I like to think of myself as a problem solver.

In all seriousness if there was anyone who could get away with a buried 2500 mixing tank somewhere, I would have guess that was you

Frankly I wish I could somehow get a buried 500g tank under my deck and be able to use it year-round. I totally empathize with the "want to intervene in an emergency". Well even without emergencies, there are times you just want to do a big/significant water change. I just changed out 50g out of my 65g FOWLR yesterday, you wouldn't believe how good it looks today. That same volume however is a "regular/weekly" waterchange for my 280g and when things aren't going right, it's really only a drop in the bucket. There are many times per year I find myself wistfully wishing I could changeout 150g-200g (or more) at a time, but I just simply don't know where I can put that much water to mix it up. So I do feel the pain of "sometimes a bigger tank isn't necessarily better" sentiment.

[MitchM]

I actually put in a 6000g goldfish pond a couple of years ago, more for backup water supply in case of fire. It's all rainwater, so I guess that could work - in the summer, anyways.

Yep, nothing beats a really big water change every now and then.
A place and the containers to mix a lot of salt water is the issue.

[MitchM]

I picked up 14 pails of IO during boxing week sales.