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They either went down in price or my memor....what was I saying? Any rate here a link: http://www.tractorsupply.com/livestock/livestock-equipment/stock-tanks-accessories/stock-tanks/stock-tank-100-gal-2229901

Tractor Supply Company

120 gallon display 100 gallon sump 100 gallon fuge 33 gallon frag tank 200 koi pond

You can find used 100 gallon stock tanks used for around $60.00. My two are both 100 gallons each and I paid like $125.0 ea at TSC

Stock tanks like these? If so, they work perfectly anf are used by a great many in the hobby.

I had a volleyball sized purple tipped acro rtn, alk was the issue. The good news is, I didn't have the heart to yank the "skeleton" out, about a month later I started seeing what looked like flesh on it. Sure enough it started coming back. Four months later about 40% has grown back and I am even starting to see purple tips on a few. As fragile as these animals are, in my experience, they are resilient.

Multiple pieces of equipment = multiple chances of failure. I try to reduce my chances in those cases, not increase them. I know some people like redundancy. I don't. Too many variables already, I don't need to contribut to it. I do however have backups to most of my life support equipment (replacement return pump, skimmer, heaters, bulbs, etc.) so in the event of failure, my system is off line only as long it it takes me to switch something out in lieu of waiting on something being shipped.

Centerville Aquarium usually carries a few of the common sizes. I have bought 3/4 & 1" there before. Dunno anout 1&1/4 though.

decent growth. Both (digi particularly) are fast growers when params are in check.

Time to move the tanks. Draining the 30 gallon sump and 75 gallon DT. My baby purple tip Acro grown from a 4' frag out of water ::GULP:: . The Duncan didn't look good at all. The polyps looked like snot running out of the skeleton. Very unnerving. Filled back up and in it's temporary place until the 120 has the final connections and a dry run with fresh water. All told the coral were out of water about 20-25 minutes. Everything went off without a hitch. Minimal slime from the corals and polyp extension after about 10 minutes after the tank was full and running again. SIGH!!!

You think it's to strong? I know the 250's were dull to say the least. I am SPS heavy soo..lol. Here are pics with my first full system water test. The lights are running.. I hope they are ok. I like the look. They are 15k's and I intend on doing a lengthy photo acclimation period. Old 75 in the spot wher the new 120 will be. Next up was to drain the 75 in order to move it out of the way, put the 120 in its place and re-fill the 75 until the big move.

So here are some pictures of hooking up the drain lines and return lines. I hard piped to above the bulkheads and then 45 the lines to the spaflex. The plumbing is super clean run this way with minimal elbows, most are sweeping turns. Connection under the tank to the fish room below. Fish room coming together. Access panels in place, Reefkeeper Elite modules, Ranco controler in place. Sump Light (6,500 k twin tube 48" fixture) hung in place. Phos/carbon reactor installed and manifold completed. Oh and ro/di hung. Reefkeeper head unit installed upstairs on the stand along with a DC4 strip .

The tank, stand and canopy were used. I hated the goofy light plopped on top of the canopy and the mylar lining on the underside. So, upgrade time again. Ditched the ice cap 2-250 watt ballasts and coralife bulbs. You can just see the white hood sitting on top of the canopy in the first pic. Upgrade to 2-400 watt Ushios. I can't find the completed hood picture. I post it when I find it.

So I figured I would bore and flood you with pics all at once. Some pics of stuff I have been collecting for the new tank. I also went ahead and did the upgrade to the ES driver. It come out a month after I bought them....BOOO. Good thing is the upgrade is super easy. 80lbs of base rock from BRS Muratic bath followed by baking soda and then ro/di rinse. And the crown Jewel.... This was replaced with this... This thing is HUGE!!! Pictures don't do this thing justice. It will be powered off the return manifold.

Again, thanks for the warm welcome. My current 75 is heavily dominated with SPS, I have a few LPS a couple softies and some darn shrooms/GSP I want gone. I am slowly leaning to all SPS though I intend on keeping my 125+ duncan around. Here are some older FTS of my current set up. Please ignore the mess, I have neglected clean up while doing this upgrade.