100 Gal. tank score!!

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i'm pretty excited. I just scored a 100 gallon fish tank. COMPLETE (no water or fish) but sump and sand and coral. if i want it. Or i can just mosey down to the beach and get some new stuff.

its acrilic, measures 4'x 18"x 30", previously salt water, blue plastic back wall. curved front corners. If i remember correctly it had a lid but don't know if he has it somewhere else.

has a kinda crapy stand. but eh its free.

I never had salt water before. so now its going to be my first. i'm pretty happy about it.
 
Cool, nice score. Now hope you have the $$$ to do SW, lol.
 
12 Volt Man;973755; said:
you scored even better.

you scored a 110!
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well the glass is .5" think so i just minus 1 inch from each number to get the inside of the tank.

so 47x18x30 = just over 100 gallons.


i used 2 sites
http://www.firsttankguide.net/calculator.php
&
http://www.fishfriend.com/tank_volume_calculator.html

i just googled cause i was excited to find out how big it is.

now i have to clean a spot for it. and pick it up.

if i want. i can also get the chiller from a tank thats about 130-150 gallons. i can't remember the width of the tank. but it was bigger and longer than the one i scored.
 
Scorponok;973767; said:
How much did you pay for it?
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everything is FREE!!!!!!

even the chiller if i want it.

both tanks are sitting in the office of a family member. Empty. so basicly they want to set up the big tank behind the desk where the smaller tank is.

I must admit that the tank i am getting does have some scratches. but am told you won't see it if there is water. but i did see a few on the outside too. so i dunno. and i really don't care. ITS FREE :)

I just have to make room here at home and go get it. the beauty is they also have a flat bed truck i can use with lift gate.

I'm also told that a friend of the family can get free fish. but i plan to try and catch my own. I've seen some angle fish and other types of parot fish at the beach by my house. I'll just go net them (if i'm lucky and they don't run that is)
 
Congrats. you're lucky man. I paid $200 for a 60lx18wx24h yesterday.

Btw, the standard calculation of tanks is including the glass/acrylic. Nobody goes around measuring the thickness of tank wall. Sometime people even round off the gallon.
 
Nice grab, I like the 110x but the only drawback I found was the depth regarding maintainence. When I had mine it was a planted tank though, I used to have to almost crawl into the tank to anchor the plants into the substrat.
 
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