Yes, you read that right. I didn't add an extra zero by accident. AND it's technically 1196 gallons. AND I have never EVER looked after fish before. I am currently in the information-gathering phase. I don't foresee really getting starting on anything for a few more months but I figure planning earlier and longer is better. I have been reading and researching for weeks already trying to educate myself and now that I know a little more would like some input and opinions. So here it goes...
I am lucky owner of a 1000 gallon in-wall aquarium through the purchase of its house. I have pictures available to post and will do so when I reach the post limit required.
It measures 8 feet long x 4 feet deep x 5 feet high and is accessible through an aquarium maintenance room behind it. Unfortunately space is pretty tight in there.
The previous owner kept local river fish and from my understanding only a handful. He ran a chiller to keep the tank the appropriate temperature.
There is a relatively small sump for the tank size located to the side of the aquarium and below the chiller. It is approximately 50 gallons. Two 2 inch pipes feed into it with one 1.5 inch pipe attached to a 3600 gph pump. It appears to have been a submerged media sump filter though all filter media has since been removed.
My plan is to slowly work on this and get comfortable with taking care of the tank before ever adding fish. In the end, I want to have a cichlid tank consisting of haps/peacocks including frontosas. This will be a planted tank as well. After getting the tank set up appropriately I would be cycling it and planting it. Once it was decently grown out I would plan to add my fish.
My main questions are regarding the sump tank at the moment. It seems significantly undersized for the size of tank especially considering the fact that I will be filling it with a number of cichlids. I have read a lot about sump sizes and filtration for cichlids (overfiltering). There's not much information regarding tanks of this size however. I would love to get some opinions on how big a sump tank, amount of biomedia, and amount of filtration needed for a tank of this size. I will be adding in powerheads to the tank to increase turnover but the whole 10x the size of the tank filtration would put me at needing 10000 gph through the sump which would certainly be limited by the size of the outflow pipe and require the addition of more outflow pipes.
The real issue I run into with sump tank sizes is required space. I have about 26.5" x 25.5" of room to the side where the current sump lies. I have looked at adding the sump tank below the main tank but the supporting beams would prevent placing anything of significant size under it. I would love to just build something like a 250 gallon sump but I'm limited to that available space to the side of the aquarium.
I am lucky owner of a 1000 gallon in-wall aquarium through the purchase of its house. I have pictures available to post and will do so when I reach the post limit required.
It measures 8 feet long x 4 feet deep x 5 feet high and is accessible through an aquarium maintenance room behind it. Unfortunately space is pretty tight in there.
The previous owner kept local river fish and from my understanding only a handful. He ran a chiller to keep the tank the appropriate temperature.
There is a relatively small sump for the tank size located to the side of the aquarium and below the chiller. It is approximately 50 gallons. Two 2 inch pipes feed into it with one 1.5 inch pipe attached to a 3600 gph pump. It appears to have been a submerged media sump filter though all filter media has since been removed.
My plan is to slowly work on this and get comfortable with taking care of the tank before ever adding fish. In the end, I want to have a cichlid tank consisting of haps/peacocks including frontosas. This will be a planted tank as well. After getting the tank set up appropriately I would be cycling it and planting it. Once it was decently grown out I would plan to add my fish.
My main questions are regarding the sump tank at the moment. It seems significantly undersized for the size of tank especially considering the fact that I will be filling it with a number of cichlids. I have read a lot about sump sizes and filtration for cichlids (overfiltering). There's not much information regarding tanks of this size however. I would love to get some opinions on how big a sump tank, amount of biomedia, and amount of filtration needed for a tank of this size. I will be adding in powerheads to the tank to increase turnover but the whole 10x the size of the tank filtration would put me at needing 10000 gph through the sump which would certainly be limited by the size of the outflow pipe and require the addition of more outflow pipes.
The real issue I run into with sump tank sizes is required space. I have about 26.5" x 25.5" of room to the side where the current sump lies. I have looked at adding the sump tank below the main tank but the supporting beams would prevent placing anything of significant size under it. I would love to just build something like a 250 gallon sump but I'm limited to that available space to the side of the aquarium.
