300 gallon setup

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ragin_cajun said:
Tired of typing the same thing over and over. Pumps 8-10 X turnover--300X10 is 3,000 GPH. Overflow/drains need to be able to drain that much water. Jaws777 just posted that PVC drain rate graphic today in another thread. If you want the tank to be quiet, do a Herbie style drain with a gate valve.

Get a box/aquarium/sump/bucket/rubbermaid that is 20% of the size of the tank or bigger. Put bio media in laundry bags. Rig up some filter socks for mechanical filtration. Don't need any baffles in a freshwater tank.

Call thefilterguys.biz and tell them you want a chloramine filter setup. They'll tell you the part number for the system you need. Buy that, change the filter cartridges every 4 months, and you don't have to do water changes anymore.

So just gravel vac turds off the bottom and clean the filter socks every few weeks. Feed the fish every day or so. Email Jeff Rapps for fish -- or cichlidsoftheamericas.com. Watch em fight. After a year or two, they'll be big and colorful.

Maybe stock Nitrofurazone and Kanamycin, PraziPro, and some epsom salt for meds.
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Thanks for the link to cichlids of America I've been trying to figure out where to get fish
 
you live right by him, butchie. you could probably drive over and look at what he has in person. Also, floridafishdirect.com, they're probably right by you, too. Orlando is THE spot to be.
 
ragin_cajun said:
you live right by him, butchie. you could probably drive over and look at what he has in person. Also, floridafishdirect.com, they're probably right by you, too. Orlando is THE spot to be.
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SWEET!!!! that florida fish direct looks like it is near where my parents live, I emailed cichlids of america. I will need to get more tanks cycling LOL. My wife will not be amused!
 
Isaiah Shipp said:
Hey guys, this will be a long post so just bare with me! I am familiar with how to set up some of the smaller tanks 100 and smaller. But I am wanting a 300 gallon freshwater setup but I know that most setups have sump pumps and all the other bells and whistles. Which I have no idea how to maintain or where to get one. I guess my question is, what do I need as far as plumping and Euipment to have a healthy 300 gal. I don't think I'll be able to do water changes for something so big so is there something that will substitute for that? Thanks guys!
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I was right were you were a few months ago. Still have tons of questions but the main thing you need to decide is what you want out of the sump ( hahah ragin_cajun ragin_cajun your line )

Quite, ease of maintenance, multiple compartment bla blah bla. Is the tank going to be drilled ? If your considering a sum most qould recommend this.

Wether its a sump, canister, or hob the main function is converting ammonia to nitrite and to nitrate. As long as your sump is doing that then the fish can live. Mech is for us we like clean looking water lol. I dont have baffles and dont register ammonia at all filter socks take care of the mech.

Search some ofy threads i asked lota of dumb questions repeatedly lol
 
ragin_cajun said:
Tired of typing the same thing over and over. Pumps 8-10 X turnover--300X10 is 3,000 GPH. Overflow/drains need to be able to drain that much water. Jaws777 just posted that PVC drain rate graphic today in another thread. If you want the tank to be quiet, do a Herbie style drain with a gate valve.

Get a box/aquarium/sump/bucket/rubbermaid that is 20% of the size of the tank or bigger. Put bio media in laundry bags. Rig up some filter socks for mechanical filtration. Don't need any baffles in a freshwater tank.

Call thefilterguys.biz and tell them you want a chloramine filter setup. They'll tell you the part number for the system you need. Buy that, change the filter cartridges every 4 months, and you don't have to do water changes anymore.

So just gravel vac turds off the bottom and clean the filter socks every few weeks. Feed the fish every day or so. Email Jeff Rapps for fish -- or cichlidsoftheamericas.com. Watch em fight. After a year or two, they'll be big and colorful.

Maybe stock Nitrofurazone and Kanamycin, PraziPro, and some epsom salt for meds.
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One of the funnies posts I've seen on MFK for a while. This should be on the MFK home page. I especially enjoyed.

ragin_cajun said:
So just gravel vac turds off the bottom and clean the filter socks every few weeks. Feed the fish every day or so. Email Jeff Rapps for fish -- or cichlidsoftheamericas.com. Watch em fight. After a year or two, they'll be big and colorful.
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New world cichlid keeping summed up in one paragraph.

10/10 would read again.
 
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