peaceNchaos

OUCH!

Sweet scape!

Spent hours trying to figure out the same thing years ago when my brother asked me to help him set up his turtle tank, we were bout ready to return it before we tried the hoses the other way round lol :sml1:

recently saw a tank on trademe that was constructed wtith two front, back and bottom panes ie the front was made using two glass pieces fitted end to end, not sandwiched together. Same for the back and bottom. 6mm glass I think - it got me thinking, is it safe to build tanks this way? Useful for smaller peices of glass. Had bracing on the inside where the two panes met top to bottom, and internal brace glass pieces glued most the way round the inside bottom and the top. Thoughts? Safe or not? Googled the heck out of it but didnt find much

Best news ive had today! Assumed they were the same size as the 'dori' tangs, but 8" is sweet! Shot, ill look into it LEGENDS! :bounce:

Dont worry - dont wanna get one and have it disease my other fish coz its stressed. no Tang (sigh)

Certainly sounds like my kinda philosophy! Im just gonna binge search the words 'tang tank size' and see

Yea that sounds safer to me, and still adds up to one less power cord in the DT so im happy with that. Now Ive been offered glass enough for free to make myself a 160Lx70Wx40H Display tank, this is just under the 6 foot mark mentioned everywhere as the minimum length tank in which to keep Tangs - does the extra width of the tank mean that the half foot or so im missing of tank would be less important? Or is the whole 6 feet minimum TRULY the absolute minimum? Right now, If I build this tank myself, then by adding a 230l sump (picked up $50, was gonna be my display tank till now) and an above tank refugium of bout 100l, id have a 200gal/800l system, does this affect my ability to keep a tang despite the display tanks size? I know theyre quite difficult to keep, and would leave it as one of my last additions - just wanna know now if I should plan around one or not. Im guessing not, but keen to try, long as im not imposing a death sentence on the poor fish

Cheers, Ill be adding a couple small heaters. Just gotta figure out (im sure researching more will find the answer) wether its safe to keep both heaters in the sump (which ill be adding to my system now, bought a different tank which isnt tempered so I can drill overflows) or wether one in the sump and one in the DT is preferable

None of thats to scale btw lol

Decided to go with an overhead refugium containing a RDSB, a sponge/featherduster chamber and extra live rock chamber since Ive got an odd shaped tank spare (18cm wide and 40 tall) - ill run this tank with one small light fixture on an opposite schedule to the main tank. Havent got the dimensions sorted yet but heres my concept drawings of how the stand will work - gonna have a builder mate look it over before the build. http://s1356.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=2 http://s1356.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=3 http://s1356.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... sort=3&o=0 Sweet. Peace.

AAARGH :facepalm: Orrighty, thanks man, have found an imports list on here to trawl through now Much appreciated

Surely this cant be right? 50%? Thought thatd be more like full to the brim: http://aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisorMarine.ph ... ode=simple

took me so bloody long to convert my thinking into gallons when I first started internet research for FW tanks years ago and cant seem to undo it now lol

Hmmm dont wanna do a reef without shrimp, wouldnt feel right I reckon. Possibly rethink the Gramma then - at the least till the shrimp are huge and see if that works maybe