I decided to start a new thread to follow my slow journey of setting up a 240 gallon tank. It's a 4 year old 8'x2'x2' with starphire glass front and sides. It used to be a reef tank. I bought it local from a doctor that had it set up in his office until he moved offices. It has 13 holes drilled in it. 4 in the bottom at the front of the tank, 2 in the bottom of each overflow, and 5 in the back glass. It needs a lot of cleaning up, but it's nearly scratch free, and the ones it does have are minor. I may even try to buff them out, but probably not.
As you can see from the pictures below, I've got a lot of mineral deposits to clean up, and a lot of silicone to scrape off of the bulkhead holes (which were all siliconed inside and outside the tank.)
I also have two 40breeder tanks that I am going to use as sumps. I'm modeling this set up after fmueller.com's. So I've ordered two 1800gph pondmasters and four sheets of poret filter foam. The plan is to sandwich the filter foam together in each sump so that I can do maintenance without having to take the entire wall of foam out, since I'll also be using the sumps as growouts. I also plan to plumb the setup to my house plumbing for easy maintenance. More on that later. I think I've covered enough for now.
As you can see from the pictures below, I've got a lot of mineral deposits to clean up, and a lot of silicone to scrape off of the bulkhead holes (which were all siliconed inside and outside the tank.)
I also have two 40breeder tanks that I am going to use as sumps. I'm modeling this set up after fmueller.com's. So I've ordered two 1800gph pondmasters and four sheets of poret filter foam. The plan is to sandwich the filter foam together in each sump so that I can do maintenance without having to take the entire wall of foam out, since I'll also be using the sumps as growouts. I also plan to plumb the setup to my house plumbing for easy maintenance. More on that later. I think I've covered enough for now.
