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im faced with a difficult decision. I am running a 55 gallon partial planted tank in my parents house. I am going to order a 125gallon from petco. the 125 weighs an estimated 1200lbs. It is a little heavy for their house and needs to be put in a different area that can support the excessive weight. i did some research and came up with some prices. my 55 gallon setup now costed alittle more than $1000.00. the new setup is going to be at least $2000, considering the amount of filtration and lighting i am going to use. Im going to either get the 125 and put the fish that i already have inside of that, or run another 55 gallon with another species of fish inside such as cichlids, exodons, gouramis, loaches etc..
Which tank do you think i should run? I would run the two if i had the money, but sadly i dont.:(
 
go to city mill Hawaiian, and build a tank. cost less then both of them put together.
 
2 tanks are better than 1:naughty:
 
It cost less in energy to maintain 1 larger tank than two smaller tanks. Twin 55 tropical tanks would cost more because of the larger surface area exposed to the air that counteracts the heating of the tank to tropical temps, and the duplication of light, and filtration. I have run many cost anylsis on electrical equipment and a fish tank is basically a basically a big well lit, oxygenated, filtered and porly insulated water heater. A 60 gal water heater, will cost about 20% more to run than a 30 gal water heater. You can see this at any Home Depot--just go to the plumbing isle and check out the yellow tags on the water heaters that tell you yearly cost. The size can double, but the energy cost only goes up a bit.
 
haynchinook334;2283887; said:
go to city mill Hawaiian, and build a tank. cost less then both of them put together.
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thanks for the refrences everybody, but, haychinook, unfortunatley, i live on the big island, so this will require shipping.:(

These reports on the tanks are helpful in my decision, but the tanks dont require heaters. my 55 that im running now averages 74-80 all of the time. I was leaning toward the 125, but id much rather keep the 55 and buy the 125. I was thinking that a clown knife would go in it.

edge350, youre right, but i wont get the chioce of keeping cichlids or any other aggressive fish in the 2nd tank.

its something to think about but im planning to go with the 125, unless the shipping from the people on craigslist is affordable. the tank from petco, the stand, and the glass top averages out to $1030.00
hey other hawaiian or someone from hawaii, is there a place where i can get ot it cheaper from locally? any other opinions on the tanks??
 
Just a tip for weight on the floor. You can crawl under the house with a couple jacks & a 4x4 to reinforce the floor joists to support the weight of pretty much whatever size tank you'd like.
 
not that easy dude. we dont have jacks and there was a 6.7 earthquake recently that really messed up the house, so we gotta do more than that to support the floor. plus we gotta fix it first and thats a good 20,000. in addition to that, FEMA screwwed us over.
 
Hawaii Predator;2284397; said:
not that easy dude. we dont have jacks and there was a 6.7 earthquake recently that really messed up the house, so we gotta do more than that to support the floor. plus we gotta fix it first and thats a good 20,000. in addition to that, FEMA screwwed us over.
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In that case I'd fix my house before I bought another tank. Just me. I know. I'm nuts.
 
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