Newbie considering tank purchase

alex.mccann99 · Oct 1, 2017

That's insane! At my LFS they have several beautiful new tank setups, including Sump, plumbing and other equipment for less than that. Pass!!!

Saltwaterdreamer · Oct 1, 2017

alex.mccann99 said:
That's insane! At my LFS they have several beautiful new tank setups, including Sump, plumbing and other equipment for less than that. Pass!!!

Oh wow wish it was that cheap here. May have to keep looking. I am going to at least go look at the setup.

alex.mccann99 · Oct 1, 2017

Saltwaterdreamer said:
Oh wow wish it was that cheap here. May have to keep looking. I am going to at least go look at the setup.

My LFS has some awesome deals. They have a beautiful 60 gallon and a 95 gallon Rimless Cubes. Gorgeous well built stands, sumps and all the plumbing too. I think the 60 is $800 and the 95 is $1100. These are brand new and very high quality setups.

120 is a big tank. In some respects, a large tank is slightly easier because you're dealing with more water volume, harder to mess up things and hurt the inhabitants. That being said, the equipment to run everything is bigger, costs more and uses more power. It's large volumes of water for water changes, more salt, more of everything.

I used to have a larger 95 gallon cube. Loved it, but its a lot of work. I now have a 25 gallon shallow lagoon style tank. I love it. The amount of work is so minimal. Water changes take me about 20 minutes once a week. You are limited on types of fish and if you mix the salt wrong, or add too much of something, it's an emergency because you don't have a large amount of water volume to dissipate the effects.

Just a few things to think about.

Saltwaterdreamer · Oct 1, 2017

alex.mccann99 said:
My LFS has some awesome deals. They have a beautiful 60 gallon and a 95 gallon Rimless Cubes. Gorgeous well built stands, sumps and all the plumbing too. I think the 60 is $800 and the 95 is $1100. These are brand new and very high quality setups.

120 is a big tank. In some respects, a large tank is slightly easier because you're dealing with more water volume, harder to mess up things and hurt the inhabitants. That being said, the equipment to run everything is bigger, costs more and uses more power. It's large volumes of water for water changes, more salt, more of everything.

I used to have a larger 95 gallon cube. Loved it, but its a lot of work. I now have a 25 gallon shallow lagoon style tank. I love it. The amount of work is so minimal. Water changes take me about 20 minutes once a week. You are limited on types of fish and if you mix the salt wrong, or add too much of something, it's an emergency because you don't have a large amount of water volume to dissipate the effects.

Just a few things to think about.

I looked at one in the LFS yesterday and just the tank was 2499. Not sure about the size, it was really big. I’d say at least 150, but that’s just a guess because the next size they had was just a 55.