New 6ft Acrylic tank on the Cheap. LOTS of Pics

Picked up this tank today for $100 plus $40 in gas for my friends Expedition. It's a Clarity Plus 6ft Acrylic Tank with full Acrylic 200g Sump and full Acrylic lighted hood. The hood and stand are black and the back round is blue. The tank is cloudy but I'm not sure what it will look like full, we'll see. It looked clearish in the pic of it full a week ago.

The Tank is 72" x 18"d x 19"t = 112 Gallons if full, likely 100 Gallons at the overflows.

The Stand/Sump is MASSIVE (Well to me), the thing is 72" x 26"d x 24.5"t = 200 Gallons if full (Well 198.x but we'll say 200) but it will likely be *only* 1/2 full so a 100 gallon sump/filter. All Acrylic with 5 dividers built in. There are 12 shelves (2 per section) that you are screen lined for foam or bio material. They are 15" x 11 each and he included lots of rock, foam and charcoal. I will not use the charcoal though if so very little. The sump has two drains into it that pour over each tray into the bottom. Then a 10 year old little giant series 3 pump refills the tank with a single outlet at the top of the tank.

The hood has 4 x 36" 30w bulb setup, I only got 3 bulbs though. I think the ballasts need replaced as they are very rusty, but they all work.

Photos.



Extra stuff I got, it used to be a SW tank he says. He had loaches, parrots, and silver dollars in it. With white gravel, which I'll be putting in the sump.



1 bulb on.



No lights on



filter material trays



pump pickup at the bottom of the sump



pump no idea how much it flows



drain and return at top of tank



tank



hood inside no bulbs



sump

Thats all, just wanted to share.

Tank will be a grow out for this guy.

Thanks, will do.

Well the pump works, I filled the sump enough to try it out. The output was insane, take my XP2 and multiply it by like 100. Red Tailed Catfish, it was 3" in that photo, maybe 4" now. Just a little guy. Already hand feeds though.

Oh and the tank is clearer when wet also.

And it is up and running, really looks nice. Photos don't do it justice.




Water isn't that cloudy the camera just sucks.

Thanks, yea a friend found it and even though I didn't have the money I still made it happen, it was to good to pass up.

- I just added a VisiTherm Stealth 200w heater, in tank. I can't put it in the sump because there is not a single place to get the cord out except the front opening. And it's not to stealth being black on a blue backround.

And geez as I was writing this my oscar splashed in the other tank like a shark, scared the hell out of me. Not sure what he was after.