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Hello everyone. I decided to document this build because it's my first big boy tank. I recently moved into a new apartment and I am allowed to have an aquarium, so here I am.
I orignally wanted to get a deep blue/seapora 80 gallon shallow, but they are either no longer being made or just very hard to come by.
I was pretty close to pulling the trigger on a Waterbox Frag 100, but I got spooked by someone's thread on here about poor build quality and bad customer service. That review single-handedly changed my mine.
I ended up coming across the Innovative Marine INT 100. It has the footprint I like, and the quality/customer service seems to good. I purchased the tank with the white APS stand. It seems like this tank might be less popular than the EXT series, which has an external overflow box. The EXT was out of stock, but the internal overflow box on the INT doesn't bother me too much. I will get more surface skimming with the coast to coast overflow.
The tank was prepared and shipped by the end of the next business day. IM sent me a text and and a link to a site called aftership, which shows you where you package is. It's being shipped via FedEx.
IM also followed up with a phone call to let me know that the tank is on its way, and told me to inspect it before signing off on delivery. They mentioned that the delivery driver may not wait for me to inspect it. If thats the case, I just need to annotate that on the receipt and call them immediately about any damage.
I orignally wanted to get a deep blue/seapora 80 gallon shallow, but they are either no longer being made or just very hard to come by.
I was pretty close to pulling the trigger on a Waterbox Frag 100, but I got spooked by someone's thread on here about poor build quality and bad customer service. That review single-handedly changed my mine.
I ended up coming across the Innovative Marine INT 100. It has the footprint I like, and the quality/customer service seems to good. I purchased the tank with the white APS stand. It seems like this tank might be less popular than the EXT series, which has an external overflow box. The EXT was out of stock, but the internal overflow box on the INT doesn't bother me too much. I will get more surface skimming with the coast to coast overflow.
The tank was prepared and shipped by the end of the next business day. IM sent me a text and and a link to a site called aftership, which shows you where you package is. It's being shipped via FedEx.
IM also followed up with a phone call to let me know that the tank is on its way, and told me to inspect it before signing off on delivery. They mentioned that the delivery driver may not wait for me to inspect it. If thats the case, I just need to annotate that on the receipt and call them immediately about any damage.
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