Custom tank

[chapel210]

Does anyone on maast do custom builds? Looking to have a tank built that is 72x36x24. Please let me know..

[sharkboy]

Not sure but glass cages can do it...

[TinyTanker]

either you have a lot of money or trying to maximize an area to use for tank. Talk to Brian at Kingfish Aquariums.

Richie Rich:hypnotyized:

[chapel210]

I appreciate guys

[ReefOne]

you going acrylic or glass

[ratboy]

Hmm thats the same size as my tank. What are your plans for it? If I had it all to do over again I would have liked less vertical depth. 3' deep is awfully hard to clean and scape. Also I would expect a cost of > 10,000$. Possibly in materials alone if you are looking for acrylic.

[RayAllen]

I think he meens 3' front to back which is awesome for aquascaping. Glasscages is a good company to order from IMO and you can pick it up from a houston reptile show which come through oftern and save a lot on shipping. I ordered a 125g from them a few years ago and was happy with it. Glass is heavy but will scracth a lot less that acrylic and you can go starfire on the front and side panels.

[chapel210]

If these go the way I'm hoping Ishould have it in a few months. The tank stand and canopy is going to run almost $3000. I've been saving for a while, and plan on making (hopefully) one heck of a reef. I will keep you all informed on how things go.

[caferacermike]

It's too bad you never made a move on my 72x32x36 (32 so it will actually fit through a door in your house) when I was thinking about getting rid of it. $5K would have got you everything you needed but lights.

Just make sure you can get it into your house. I heard a story about another reefer ordering a 900 or so gallon tank and missed getting it into his house by 2".

[chapel210]

Yeah Ihad thought about that. This is the reason for keeping the height at 24in. This way it will fit, just need to turn it over on it's side.

[LoneStar]

Have you looked into A.G.E. tanks? They are alot nicer than GlassCages. If it were me, I'd fork out the extra cash to go A.G.E. but thats just me.

[DrMark]

I just received a tank from glasscages.com, I ordered a small frag tank 20"x20"x8". Corner overflow. With drain and return bulkheads, black acrylic overflow cover, shipping, etc. was around $230. Very nicely made and packed super well. I have not got any large tanks from them, however.
mark

[chapel210]

All feedback is appreciated, I still haven't decided who to go with so I have alot of thinking to do.

[JeffCo]

I have a glass cages tank pretty close to the size you want. I have been really happy with mine and got the low iron glass on the front three panels. Mine's 96x36x25. I had to do the same thing with mine to get it into the house, turned it on it's side.

[cpreefguy]

I will also recommend www.aquariumobsessed.com (http://www.aquariumobsessed.com)
Their tanks are top notch, and their prices are very reasonable IMO.
They're in Canada, but freight was also very reasonable when I got my 60 cube from them

[chapel210]

Has anyone used the solaris lighting system?

[LoneStar]

Has anyone used the solaris lighting system?

The only one I remember off hand that has used the Solaris on a large tank is Ed_Reef from China.

Here is his tank build on ReefCentral:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1348455&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

And the Split:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1421171


He is very active on the site and could probably give you some insight on the LED system.