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mustang93svt;4883016; said:
looks like a 180 from the pics. 200 is not a common size...
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Technically it's roughly 210. The measurements are 7'x2'x25" exactly.

It's a used tank and is about 10 years old so maybe back when it was made 200 was a common size, or maybe it's custom made, who knows. I don't know about much of it's history but I know it holds water and is in great condition (tested everything out myself before buying it)
 
I do know it was originally a saltwater set up and that an old lady owned it until she died and her son got it and his wife refused to let him keep it lol but that's about it
 
gregkarr09;4883268; said:
agree... I cycled my tank in 13 days with stability and old filter media
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My plan for a quick cycle is 50% old water, running it with old used filter media, having a bunch of feeders in it, and adding algea scraps from an empty 30 gallon tank that I've been using to grow plants in. I think this should allow me to add the fish in only a couple days mostly because it would be almost like it was a 50% water changed tank thanks to half of the water being old
 
Actually very little bacteria are free floating in the water. They colonize the gravel, glass and other structures. It may be just enough with the old media in your new filter but I would still watch it carefully. It will also be hard to know when you have finished the cycle since you will already have nitrates in the water.
 
There was somewhere on here that didn't even cycle his tank when adding new filter material. He did the Seachem and did 50% water changes for a few days. No loss of fish.
 
when ever i start a new tank all i do is run a sponge filter in one of my existing tanks for a week or so. when i fill the new tank it is on water change day so that i can use something like 50% old water and 50% new. i scoop some bio balls out of the sump of the tank i drained water out of and throw them and the sponge filters in the new setup. fish can go in safely next day, i have never lost a fish this way. neither has my father and he deals with thousands of fish weekly.
 
Awesome tank! Congrats!
 
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