im back, planning for the future

Haven't popped in here in a while. We are moving to our (hopefully) permanent home in just a month, so I've been getting prepping to set up a proper fish room.

So far I have 10 40b's and several 10s/5s

And about a month back I scored 16 -15g tanks off of someone on CL for $60.



I think the most amazing thing was actually fitting them all into my suv in one trip


Updates coming=]

Cool welcomeback nice score

Welcome back jeta

Nice welcome back!

Very awesome score!
Welcome back! We have missed you!

Very nice score! Going to build the racks yourself? Have you seen your future fish room?

Still up in the air. I'm likely to buy prefab racks because im not much of a carpenter. We haven't found a house yet but we haven't started looking. Our lease is up here in feb, so we'll start looking in just a few weeks.

nice
preparing well

Good luck !!!

Welcome back!

I bought my metal shelves from Lowes that I keep the classroom tanks on. Mid/Top shelves can easily handle my 29T - but I had to lay good solid 3/4"x6" over the particle board to ensure strength (hubby the household carpenter recommended). Then just found some cheap waterproof tableclothes in the right colors at the dollar tree to tape over/around for better appearance/wood protection. Each bottom shelf has a 55G on it.

They are nice, and deep enough that I can hide equipment behind tanks, and squeeze part of me (or all of my kid worker) behind them if necessary. Or push them towards the back so that I have a 'work area' 16" deep in front of them.

They were the heavy duty shelves that can go 4 shelves high, or be split in two (that's how I use them) around $74 each last summer. You could easily fit 8 ten gallon tanks per shelving unit, with plenty of room between them to store your supplies.

take some pics and post them, we love to see new stuff!!

an update with a few terrible camera phone pics of a score I got today. A nice SW guy on a local reef forum decided it was time to clear out his freshwater stuff.

$25 got
29G
20L
20H
10g
2.5g
4 tank lids

a large pirate ship and a large barrel decoration along with a few terra cotta pots

3 hang on heaters
an old school air pump
lights
2-36" fluoro lights 1 single lamp 1 double lamp
1- 24" double
1-30" double
1- 48" double

1- 36" coralife 96w x2 pc light
Fishroom here I come!

You sir hit the jackpot with this one..

Jackpot!!!!

And today. Hello 125.

It's been drilled on the bottom in a few spots and then covered with glass and siliconed. Actually, all of my 40b's have the same thing because they were set up on a single system at some point.

I had to take the stand apart to fit it into the suv. I didn't mind too much because I plan to refinish it and reinforce it. Not sure if I want to put a sump in the bottom or not.

The woman I purchased it from said that she's had it for over 15 years, and before that it was in her uncle's restaurant in nashville. Cool thing is it still has a copper plate on it in the corner that says 'Please Don't Tap on Glass, It Hurts Our Ears'

I still need to build a canopy for it and a filtration system, but we still have a few weeks before we start looking for a new house, so I have time to finish piecing it together.

I paid her $100 for it. She had OBO listed, but I could tell that this tank really meant a lot to her sentimentally, so I had no problem paying the listed price.

update- picking up a new tank (55g i think) in 3 or 4 hours, will update with pics!