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First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: EVILSTAR16 Date: September 24, 2014, 2:20 am
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I'm about to start my 150 gallon tank not my first tank but
never had a tank this big want some advice
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: EVILSTAR16 Date: September 24, 2014, 3:30 am
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I have a two smaller community tanks and I was going to put
those in the 150
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: mobafrontosa Date: September 24, 2014, 8:40 am
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What do you need help with?
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: EVILSTAR16 Date: September 24, 2014, 1:41 pm
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I wanted to do a sand substrate. I wanted to know how many lbs
of sand I would need. Also i wanted the sand to be a light
color. I hear play sand is used a lot are there any other
choices?
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: JustinR Date: September 24, 2014, 1:59 pm
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I would suggest ..crushed coral and shell :-) looks more like
white sand and really easy to clean ;D I use it my self and I
love it :-)
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: mobafrontosa Date: September 24, 2014, 2:08 pm
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I use pool filter sand, it is very clean, light in color and
rinsing it is a breeze (still needed to be done). Around here it
comes in 40 lb. bags at the pool supply stores and may be on
sale as it is the end of pool season. For a 150 gallon tank I
would get 3-4 bags depending on how thick you want the substrate
to be, my preference is to keep it a thin layer but to have some
areas a bit thicker. the fish will put the sand where they want
it to be and if the keep piling it up in one area too thick take
some of it out. As a side note, if you do need to remove some
and your starting a new tank use it to transfer some great
bacteria into the new tank. Good luck and post a pic of the
final results.
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: EVILSTAR16 Date: September 24, 2014, 4:21 pm
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I also wanted to know about the water changes on a tank that
size. I have seven five gallon buckets. I don't want to carry
around so my buckets. I've seen people using big containers. I
thought about getting one of those but the only place I would be
able to keep that is in the garage but that's at the other end
of my house. What would be the best way of doing water changes?
Thanks for the advice on the sand can't wait to get the tank up
and running.
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: mobafrontosa Date: September 25, 2014, 8:19 am
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I did the bucket routine for quite awhile then devised a method
that works well for my situation, I went to the local big box
hardware store and got a pump for getting the water off a pool
cover, it has threaded ends on both the inlet and outlet for a
hose, I use a short hose that i've got attached to my gravel
cleaner and a longer hose which I route to a nearby sink. Turn
the pump on and the water easily is removed from the tank, the
flow is a bit more than from just a typical gravel cleaner but
you get use to that quickly. Once I am done removing the water I
take the longer hose and hook it up to a faucet using a piece
the hardware store had that allows a hose to hook up to a
faucet. I have 7 large tanks and water changes are about an hour
and a half to do. The pump was $60.00, (2) hoses- $ 35.00,
adapter for faucet $4.00. I only use the hoses for water changes
and keep them indoors so they don't get dirty.
There are also hose cleaners that are 50' long that hook up to
your faucet and pull water out by running the water, my way is
much faster and only cost to run it is the electricity while the
pump is running.
Good luck with water changes, making the process easy makes
water changes happen more often.
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: EVILSTAR16 Date: September 25, 2014, 9:47 pm
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I found one of those 55 gallon drums on Craigslist so I'm going
to go that rout. I'd like to have a salt water tank one day and
I know that's how some people do the water changes. They prep
the water in a drum like that a day or two before hand so I
think I'm going to use this a practice to help once I go salt
water in the future.
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Re: First 150 gallon tank looking for advice
By: ArmyMedic78 Date: September 26, 2014, 1:25 am
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I simply stick the hose from my siphon into an old garden hose
and run it right outside. Also works good on watering flower
beds and such. Plants seem to love the aquarium water. Refill
tank with.... you guessed it, a garden hose and add aquasafe as
it fills up. In a larger tank if you fill it very slowly (with
the hose on mist setting) the temperature difference, if any, is
rapidly accounted for by the rest of the water in the tank and
the heaters. Im sure some might say this is not a good idea for
whatever reason but it has worked for me.
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