building a 500 gallon plywood tank

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i have a question for everyone , i drain my old tank 125 gallon into my big tank and im using the old tank with everthing i had in their as my filter tank so i wont have to cycle my big tank , how long you think it need to be there or you think its done cycle , i dont have no trace of anything , but i was wondering is that cause i still got my filter tank from using the old tank , its been about 2 weeks now what you think ?? cause once i know im good im putting my filter tank under my tank , free some space up in my place ,,, thanks for the infor ...............
 
Are you adding any more fish to the new tank ? thats what would cause it to cycle by adding more of a bio load , if your keeping everything the same and basically just transferring everything over to the new tank you should be good to go imo
 
Are you adding any more fish to the new tank ? thats what would cause it to cycle by adding more of a bio load , if your keeping everything the same and basically just transferring everything over to the new tank you should be good to go imo

, i plan on adding fish but thats a month away , i plan on taken my filter tank im using now and turning it into real filter tank , clean out all the old rocks and finish pluming it under the stand , , maybe ill get it done this weekend , off weekend and monday , thanks
 
hi everyone , i just wanted to let everyone know its been good 6 months since i added fish and everthing good so far , i not finished the stand or tank , meaning the out side ,, tank pretty much just rolling as is for while ,,, just thought i let everyone knows good and bad how it going , going good so far , will post pic when i can
 
hi everyone , i just wanted to let you know its been good 6 months since i added , so far so good , ,, not finish the stand or tank yet , just letting it roll as is for while , so far so good , thought i let everyone know good or bad as it goes , and all good ,, will post pics soon
 
looking forward to the pics. was a nice read. and great work I hope you make a fool out of the rude person towards the end.
 
Thank you for sharing your build I learned a lot, or at least think I did :cool: I am planning a build myself some day so all the information I can gather the better. Getting the tank water to the sump is just done via the water flowing through the over flow or did I miss something?

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Thank you for sharing your build I learned a lot, or at least think I did :cool: I am planning a build myself some day so all the information I can gather the better. Getting the tank water to the sump is just done via the water flowing through the over flow or did I miss something?

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yeah , collect all the information you can , and go with what you think is the best ,, and yeah all my water going threw the over flows is going into my filter tank , i was going to do 3 overflows , 1 overflow can handle all the water flow , did more just to be safe , if 1 gets block 1 off and other can taker over , using all threw overflows work ,but at the end , just too loud , sould like a bath tub filling up when you have few thousands gallon falling thew pipe into the filter tank , which i have to say look cool , could see water fall threw the clear pvc , but too loud , i turn 1 overflow into a full siphon, and added a valve to throttle the water back little , other 2 overflows barely take 1 percent of the water flow , everthing mainly going down 1 overflow , good luck with yout tank , i luv too see plywood tank builds
 
looking forward to the pics. was a nice read. and great work I hope you make a fool out of the rude person towards the end.

thanks , i understand everyone see it differently , im a open person , each for their own , and yeah i hope it all works , but if not ill still post it and just have to say , my bad,, while i cry like a little girl lol
 
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