pls can you post a pic of the area you have zoned in the home for this tank, we want to see which home zone can support many K pounds and other details
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Would definitely be awesome though.
Mine, 4 ft deep and very easy to clean. It was my fear - nothing to itIf I had the time, money, and a way to easily clean it when necessary -- yes.
Take away any of the above things, and my answer would be "no".
My big tank is by far the easiest tank ive had to set up, maintain and every task has been to a degree simple. With the right location it will be a pleasure tank, easy to work on and endless room for fish and coralcan everybody please chill i'm not gonna be buying this with a couple weeks worth of research
i'm not just gonna use 40lbs of live rock theres gonna be around 2000lbs of rock and the 40lbs of rock is just to seed also i know it gonna take a very long time. i also am going to use a lot more then mp60s like a panta rhei ecm 65. also i'm still learning about setting up tanks over 400 gallonsthis thread is funny. You do realize this dude is completely full of it right?
1,000 gallon tank? PAh-leaze.
Hey, 40lbs of seeded rock and some mp 60s. I think you are good to go!!
Its like home depot in here. "you can do it, we can help"
i understand i'm that way with chickensReefers and tech types always press lol it's how we r wired no harm no foul
what do you mean by the shotgun approachWhat reef tanks have you set up? Or are you just going straight to the shotgun approach of itching the upgrade bug?
what do you mean by the shotgun approach
I got a 750ish gallon acrylic tank for free (there is no market for used large tanks, so just know that whatever you built will never be able to be sold unless for just a few pennies on the dollar). I have Halides that I have been collecting for years (really the most efficient way that I have found to light a large reef tank). I have a few large AmpMaster pumps for return and large closed loop. Pari of NIB Oceans Motion 4 ways that I got at a club garage sale on the cheap. I have a used 8x2x2 240G for a sump, 4x2x2 120g used tank for a fuge. I have a pair of used ASM G6 for skimmers. I have a used 1HP chiller if needed. I have a whole pile of Rancos and some used CaRx/Regulators/Bottles and bulkheads. I cannot even imagine how much this stuff cost new - I just got good deals since NOBODY seems to want large-tank stuff. The ASM G6 skimmers were like $200 each with spare/backup pumps... nobody can use them.
Would be about $20k to buy even OK level LEDs to replace in 4-6 years.
I basically have collected all of the equipment for a 12 foot reef tank, but I will still have to spend about $1,500 on a welded powder coated stand, probably $2-3k in sand and who knows how much in rock (I have 1000 pounds, or more, of real Marshall Island, Tukani, Pukani, Fiji and other nice stuff, but this will not even do 1/3 of the tank)... probably $10k in live rock since I will not use dry/dead.
This will cost me about $5-10 a day to run mostly with the heaters and large pump costs and we are under ten cents a kWh. $300 a month is a good guess.
Then, I have to deal with the acrylic, which I do not like.
This will take me 24-36 months to get set up, if I ever do. If not, I will donate it all to a school or hospital.
Large tanks are no joke. The budget on a large tank is like a speed limit sign... you wave at it as you go past at 20 miles per hour over what it says... and you never see it again in your rear view mirror.
My guess is that you probably do not know what you are getting into. Your mention of mp60s kinda eludes to this... they are a joke in a tank like 1000 gallons and barely move any water at all. Tunze 6200 on a rotating SeaSweep barely do too much. The build and a technique of a large tank is nothing like even a 240 or 300g tank. Study up and really only take advice from people who have set up a 600-750+ gallon tank because they are the only ones who know what you are going through... people who have smaller tanks mean well when they give you advice, but they do not know that their suggestions and techniques do not scale.
The reason that you are getting all of the push back is because people know what it is like to keep a more moderate tank, know the costs and seen the failures. If you come from where you are right now to having a thriving 1000 gallon reef tank, then you will be the 1 in 1000... seriously. These people are trying to help... people who can accept a hard truth will get so much farther than people who want to deny them.
Most of the installs 600G plus that I did years ago where in the 70-80K range with labor and aquascaping. As far as live stock. That can be as much or as little as you want. Many of these customers just bought big cheap softies. Others had fun buying one fish a month for 5 years. Only in internet land is livestock cost truly ridiculous. Maintenence cost could be 500 a month but most of these clients paid their landscaping company more than that. If you have a pool you pay to maintain you will likely spend a similar amount in electricity and maintenance costs.
By the way I would go bankrupt with a tank that big. The temptation to fill it with expensive corals and fish coupled with my desire to try the latest gear would destroy me, but I have seen many people who kept equipment for 15 years and were happy with a school of yellow tangs and some big softies.