Well it's here a just bought me a 120 Gal fish tank. I bought it off my ffiend for $150.00 bucks. It came with everything but i told him i didn't want the fish.I would post pics but i have no place to put them. :D
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Well it's here a just bought me a 120 Gal fish tank. I bought it off my ffiend for $150.00 bucks. It came with everything but i told him i didn't want the fish.I would post pics but i have no place to put them. :D
Salt? Reef? Freshwater? Whatcha doin' with it?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by snooper2:
<strong>I bought it off my ffiend for $150.00 bucks. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You bought it of your fiend? Wow, usualy they don't do stuff like that... :D
What are you planning to do with it, and is all the "stuff" for (like ILTU said) for a salt water or fresh water?
(If its fresh water, you'll just have a regular whisper filter, if its salt, you'll have a lot more <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> )
$150 is pretty dam good for a setup like that. Most I've had was 2 55 gals, used to raise oscars and jack dempseys.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by ilovetheusers:
<strong>Salt? Reef? Freshwater? Whatcha doin' with it?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">it was fresh water he had paku fish they were about 2 ft long. but im changing it to saltwater and all the filters heater and lights are already for saltwater i just need to clean it out and start geting the sand and salt ready for it.
I had a salt water tank once. What a major pain! It cost a fortune to get all the proper equipment, then if you even looked wrong at that $50 fish you just bought, it dies. Then I had two 2 foot worms with big teeth appear in the sand and I had no idea how they got there! Although I did have a pet 2lb lobster named Junior. (no, I didn't eat him)
I stick to my 45gal fresh water and 50gal palladarium.
I know its alot of work but I sure do enjoy looking at them. i have all the equipment and the guy who sold it to me said he would help me out. This guys dad had 210 gal saltwater tank and he said he would help me out also, so i think im in good hands. I used to have a 25 gal saltwater tank, so i am fimilar with the work that needs to be done. This tank fits perfect in my house i will get pics as soon as i can.
Snooper, if you need a home for those pics, I can oblige for a while... I wanna see!
I have a 50 gallon that I used to hold my turtle in. Now he has passed on but I don't really care no more cause that was 4 years ago. :p
Salt can be a royal drain on the wallet. My reef tank set me back over a thousand after getting filters, water deionizing filters and lighting.
What sort of filters did it come with? And lighting - type and # of bulbs running from front to back and side-to-side?
The types of filters matter as you need to set up salt tanks with emphasis on the biological media/filters over the chemical mechanical. You generally need more filtration (usually) than a freshwater tank. You will need different types of filters/lighting for different kinds of critters. If you have never set up a salt tank before write me and tell me what sort of critters you want to get and I’ll tell you what to get in the way of filtration or if what you have is sufficient, though the giant tank gives you a lot of leeway no matter what.
BTW - you will want to use crushed coral or dolomite with aragonite or coral sand for the substrate - regular sand would be a bad thing. Also make sure it doesn’t go in too thick. About an inch is plenty for salt –more will lead to excess hydrogen sulfide buildup which is very bad.
Anyway, ask me anything you want - I've been working at a pet shop for 14 years and I've just about seen it all in the way of critter care.
Here is a good source of items, super cheap.
<a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com" target="_blank">http://www.thatpetplace.com</a>
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Snooper, if you need a home for those pics, I can oblige for a while... I wanna see!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That would be great NooNoo just tell me where to send them.
Thanx for the site ILTU. Im not sure about the lighting but my friend said it would work, and the pumps are called the emperor 280 (2 pumps), I have 1 200 watt heater, and one of those pumps that shoot the water around the tank at the top.I still need to get some sand. Do i need a bottom filtration system or is this good enough? and what kind of fish i want to get im not sure just yet i know i want some colorful ones and maybe an eel oh and one of thosde porcupine fish those are cool.
So, when you getting the water cooling rig going? :D
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by snooper2:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Snooper, if you need a home for those pics, I can oblige for a while... I wanna see!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That would be great NooNoo just tell me where to send them.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Email em to me! as long as they not more than 3 mb ! If they are, mail me and I will give you a pass to my ftp.
Check out the "peekaboo" fish... :D
<img src="http://www.portemus.com/images/fishes.jpg" alt=" - " />
Think that's the lunch fish <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
here are some pics of my tank(thanx NooNoo for hosting my pics)
<img src="http://ftb.dns2go.com/fishtank11.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://ftb.dns2go.com/fishtank22.jpg" alt=" - " />
<img src="http://ftb.dns2go.com/fishtank33.jpg" alt=" - " />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by snooper2:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Snooper, if you need a home for those pics, I can oblige for a while... I wanna see!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That would be great NooNoo just tell me where to send them.
Thanx for the site ILTU. Im not sure about the lighting but my friend said it would work, and the pumps are called the emperor 280 (2 pumps), I have 1 200 watt heater, and one of those pumps that shoot the water around the tank at the top.I still need to get some sand. Do i need a bottom filtration system or is this good enough? and what kind of fish i want to get im not sure just yet i know i want some colorful ones and maybe an eel oh and one of those porcupine fish those are cool.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In general I would say that no - it's not enough and to get an additional filter. It would just be enough for a freshwater tank. Now you will have a little bit of a problem with salt creep and fast evaporation from using those filters but hey - it beats using nothing and marineland makes excellent filters that rarely break down.
You will want some sort of biological filter (the bio wheels on the ones you have really ain't gonna cut it no matter what the manufacturer says). I'd recommend something like a fluidized bed filter or if you really want you can get an undergravel (the plates under the gravel bed) though I'd say go with anything else but the undergravel (pain in the rear with all the tubes). As for wet dry filters - well the expense is just awful. The rest of the alternatives really don't work worth a fig and I have tried them all.
<img src="http://www.thatpetplace.com/images/p380B.JPG" alt=" - " />
The fluidized bed filter percolates tank water up through a bed of sand. The sand acts as breeding ground for bacteria to live on and they eat all the fish waste for you. You will need a power head that has a variable speed to go with it (aquaclear with a sponge prefilter).
The reason I put so much emphasis on biological filters is that in a salt tank the Ph is very high. There is a correlation between ammonia (fish poop) and Ph. In low Ph ammonia is not very toxic - in high Ph it is deadly. With the bio filters you get to put in more fish and the waste gets "processed" faster.
Another alternative is to get a protein skimmer. it works by foaming up the water. In order to form a bubble in water you must have proteins and other organic matter available. As salt fish that we buy come from water that is often devoid of a lot of organic matter (mostly because there is so much life around them leaching it out of the water) it is nice to run something like this that will keep things very clean. With this device you may actually need to keep up with putting in trace elements and vitamins once in a while.
Finally - get some decent books (barrons makes some OK books - stay away from anything by tetra press) and learn a bit about the fish as many of them do not live very well together or eat special foods or have special requirements. For easy to care for fish to do your initial cycle (the 1st month of having just a couple fish) you may want damsels though they are kind of teritorial and a pain in the *** later. I cycled with a clownfish before but her got kind of bummed while it was going on.
Let me know how it goes!
That thing on the side moving surface water about is a marineland powerhead. You can get a sponge to put on the intake so it doesn't suck anybody up. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Looks like a nice place you got there snooper.
The tank looks great!
Thats one hell of a tank, Snooper!
$150, you got a bargain and a half!
How much was the stand (we love those wood stands)?
Looks awesome, and will probably be great when its full of fish! :D
thanx for the compliments guys. i just bought this house a year ago. and the stand came with the tank.
Damn snooper, the stand alone is worth prolly twice what you paid for the whole setup. I used to work in a petstore that had the salt aquariums too and the were a PITA...but gorgeous! Best of luck! Be sure to post pics when its up and running WITH fish! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by PuterGeekGirl:
<strong>Damn snooper, the stand alone is worth prolly twice what you paid for the whole setup. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lets see, the stand would probably be $200-$250.
The cover (Yes, they're seperate) would be $100-$150.
The tank - $100-$150...
So, you got $400-$550! Nice deal! Congratz!
If you go fresh water, get some bala sharks. We had 2, when we got them they were about 1" long, when they were grown, they were 8" and 6.5"! (They're a school, so I'd say get 2 or 3)...
Good luck with it!
It also came with 2 filters, 1 heater, 1 light,and pump that shoots water around.