3500g 40' tank
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fishloverblake;1077026; said:
This is the dimensions of that little box
25" x 16" x 18-1/4" (to give you an my sump is 50g which is way bigger and for a 300g, and I'm adding another 50g + a large canister filter + maybe a FBF, and again that's for 300g)
secondly you want a turnover rate of at least 3x 5,000 gallons per hour. You can go up to 10x per hour turnover rate. But I say 3x times at least. So you want ideally at least 15000gph turnover rate. And that filter is only rated at 2000gph anyways.
Not enough water flow and feeding lots of monsters who dirty up the tank and leave left overs leaves to a huge outbreak of planeria..
Building a filter that pumps 15000gph with lots of media, lighting, water bills, electricity bills, hauling of the tank, etc. All adding up..
fishloverblake;1077091; said:
There's always way to do stuff low cost, just a 165.00 pond filter won't really work for that. And well as everyone told your bro skylar that tank is a huge investment and undergoing.Look at it another way...at 5000 gallons...that tanks close to the size of some of the smaller pools in capacity. You're looking at running at least a 1 1/2 to 2 HP motor and idealy...a pair of them. That translates into a real world cost of about 85.00 a month in EXTRA power bills.
Solar heating is problematic at best. I'd look for a used spa heater but again your talking a fortune in utility bills to keep a beast like that warm. You can always try building a grid of pvc pipe out of black pipe and putting it on the tanks roof but I have my doubts about it bieng able to heat it reliably.
Another possibility is a gas fired pool heater..those are a lot cheaper to run.
On the plus side... you can stock Aripimas and then charge people to feed them...LOL
Another possibility is a gas fired pool heater..those are a lot cheaper to run.
On the plus side... you can stock Aripimas and then charge people to feed them...LOL
Wolf3101;1077113; said:
John uses 5- 3/4hp pumps for 5k gallons so you're about right.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48640
As far as for heating I would heat it similarly to john above. But Wolf's ideas are good.
Also tank is only 4' wide so not really wide enough for pima. Honestly if you're seriously looking at something that big(the tank on the trailer) go custom concrete block tank and get better dimensions.
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