downhill_biker's 200g Marineland Deep Dimension Starphire

[gilmour01]

i'm loving the deep dimension tanks. i think i'm going to do a 200g deep dimension when i upgrade. keep the pics coming!

 

[Supreme Reefs]

that must be nice free rock and sand

 

[stunreefer]

Awesome tank! I love how you used the buckets as baffles, great idea and very functional. Leaves plenty of open room in the sump too, well done.

I'm a reefer/biker too... but my bikes have engines

 

[sciknen]

what are the dimensions of the tank?

thanks

 

[downhill_biker]

Wow, man what a nice set up. Looks great. Cant wait to see more.
Dave and Lisa

Thanks Dave and Lisa, the pics will keep coming, that is for sure.

 

[downhill_biker]

i'm loving the deep dimension tanks. i think i'm going to do a 200g deep dimension when i upgrade. keep the pics coming!

I like the 200g because of the 4' length. I would like longer, but then you have to buy more lights, more powerheads, more rock...I also like that it is almost cube shaped.

 

[downhill_biker]

that must be nice free rock and sand

The rock and sand was free, but I didn't use any of the free rock. It was too round and too hard to aquascape. I ended up buying a bunch of rock from someone that was taking down their tank. The sand works good for my DSB, but it is super fine and blows around, so I had to cover it with aragonite in my display.

 

[downhill_biker]

Awesome tank! I love how you used the buckets as baffles, great idea and very functional. Leaves plenty of open room in the sump too, well done.

I'm a reefer/biker too... but my bikes have engines

Dont know what made me think of the buckets, but it works great. They were cheap and they are very fuctional. They work just as intended, I cant complain one little bit.

Road bike or dirt bike? I used to ride dirtbikes quite a bit growing up, and the gas for the pedal bike is much cheaper.

 

[downhill_biker]

what are the dimensions of the tank?

thanks

The tank dimensions are 48" long x 36" wide x 27" tall.

 

[downhill_biker]

UPDATE:

Got my 500 nassarius snails today, and so far it looks like 100% survival. They are going everywhere!

 

[sciknen]

wow thats alot of snail

 

[amore169]

Very nice!! Nice bikes.

 

[ahayes13]

glad you posted your tank thread here. very nice!

 

[downhill_biker]

wow thats alot of snail

500 of them. They are nassarius onyx snails and after purchasing them I was told they are not as good as vibex, but they were cheaper. They dont have any hermits to kill them for their shells, so I think they should last a while. Snails die, and thats part of it, so I would rather replace them with cheap ones, than with ones that are way more expensive and dont do as good of a job at cleaning.

 

[downhill_biker]

Very nice!! Nice bikes.

Thanks. Reefing is my #1 joy, biking is a close second though, and my fiance fits in somewhere in the mix too...:haha:

 

[downhill_biker]

glad you posted your tank thread here. very nice!

Thanks. Glad to be here. It is so far the most responsive of all the forums I am a part of. I am excited to do some buy/sell/trading on here. Looks to be pretty active in the buy/sell threads.

 

[Brad Syphus]

Good to see you here Curtis. This is where I hang out when wmas is slow.
But I keep losing all my money on the 21 table. LOL

 

[downhill_biker]

Nice Brad. Remind me of your screen name on WMAS. I love the acans, those are killer. Maybe we need to do some trading in the near future...

 

[Brad Syphus]

Tileman

 

[Supreme Reefs]

wow where did you get the nassarius snails at and how much? if you dont mind me asking, iv been looking for somewhere to get a lot of them for a good price