"Double Tanking" my new mission

[crashinc25]

Here's the plan.
34 = 254
40 = 254
Confused yet?
In a nutshell, I am planning on setting up a 180g sump for 2 saltwater tanks. I have a 34g and a 40g that I am going to setup with a ginormous sump.
The 180g is scratched and looks really bad, but will work great as a sump so WTF, right?
Do you think I'd benefit more with FW or SW?

 

[bigspizz]

400% water volume sump....]V[.....I wouldn't care what the 180 looked like...That is where my fish would be....But I have a basement...lol

 

[mike dunagan]

why not go for it...

 

[da7v9e6]

What ever route you choose to do pics are needed

 

[koop171]

idk much about salt nor do icare to learn right now so i say fresh but thats just me and by the way be ready for some ********* to call u all kinds of dumb for trying this but good luck

 

[unstopable4700]

if you did do salt that would make an awesome divided mechanical, skimmer, refugiam tank. can you say really good water?

 

[dmopar74]

do salt, you can set up some pretty bad *** tanks with all that water volume. you could place all the live rock,filtration,etc... in the sump and have the tanks dedicated to the fish.

 

[crashinc25]

do salt, you can set up some pretty bad *** tanks with all that water volume. you could place all the live rock,filtration,etc... in the sump and have the tanks dedicated to the fish.

That's what I was thinking. Just a crapload of stuff in the sump. I could run a whole bunch of tanks with it, even a row of specimen tanks? Like 10g Mantis Shrimp tanks or something. That would be cool not having to worry every hour about water quality and params.

 

[crashinc25]

I wouldn't care what the 180 looked like...That is where my fish would be

You'd probably have second thoughts with this thing. Crazing, cracks, cutouts, etc. This will be a pretty big patch job, but well worth the price.
Put it this way, it'll hold water, but will NOT be pretty to look at.

 

[bigspizz]

You'd probably have second thoughts with this thing. Crazing, cracks, cutouts, etc. This will be a pretty big patch job, but well worth the price.
Put it this way, it'll hold water, but will NOT be pretty to look at.

even if it were completely opaqued, it could serve as an indoor pond.....You could grow a ton of things in that tank....The salty idea is cool though....I would get a mantis shrimp for one of them and sea horses in the other. Good luck with whatever you choose