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haxjester
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Found a 180g acrylic tank on craigslist and now i can finally get back into fishkeeping!
DIY 1.5" PVC overflows
Beginning of the wet/dry
Just getting started!
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BuK
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lookin like a pretty sweet setup so far mike. figure out what ur keeping for sure yet? i'd say go with the rays you've been talkin about forever lol.
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haxjester
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I plan on using this as a growout tank for the next 2 years for the following stock list(after about 2-3 years, most of these fish will outgrow this tank, then it will be time to upgrade): 1x silver arowana, 1-2 florida/spotted gars, 1-3 lima shovelnose or 1 jurenese catfish, 1-3 motoro rays, maybe an sp peru ray, and several bichirs of various sorts (i like em all!)
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Trilby Tropicals
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That looks like a nice tank, are the dimensions different from a standard 72x24x24 180g? it looks wider to me.
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"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."-Buddhist Proverb-
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haxjester
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Thanks! It's a standard 72x24x24. I wish it would wider, I wouldn't have to upgrade as soon!
Picked it up used from a gentleman in Frankenmuth who took really good care of it. It has the standard wear and tear light small scratches from gravel and decorations, but no gouges, large/deep scratches, or defects.
It came with a custom black acrylic canopy. I'll have pics of that with the next update.
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lionbacker54
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sweet. thanks for sharing your build. looks great!
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BuK
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ditch the limas and go with the jurense for sure. the limas will be fish food real quick other wise. sounds like and awesome, yet somewhat familiar  , stock list.
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haxjester
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Haha! Yeah, pretty much the same I had in my 90 before I had to get rid of it (I did'nt want to get rid of it, so I figured I'll pick up where I left off, and add those rays I talked about forever  ) I would like to put a clown knife in there too, but not sure, my last one got along well enough with the rest, but I didn't hve the chance for him to get big enough to really tell how it'll work out in the end.
Why do you say the limas will become chow? They get large enough. Are they very slow growers? What if I do the limas AND the jur?! 
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BuK
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limas max out at around 2'and in my experiences in the past it takes them a good long time to get that large if they ever do ( they're easily stunted). so by the time a lot of your fish are hitting 2'-2.5' the limas would just be getting 12-15".
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haxjester
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Got some more work done on getting the tank ready. Most of the PVC is cemented. The ceramic tile that is going in the tank as "substrate" is all cut and ready to go. Decided to go with a spraybar type design for the return to avoid having too much flow/current in the tank from a overpowered return. Tested out the overflows and the wet/dry. Everything went great!. At the rate that the pump is going with the head on it, its pumping just under 1700 gph, which gives me about an 8-9x turnover rate. There's plenty more to be done before I put in it's permanent location, but I'm hoping to have it done and ready this week.
And 300 holes later..... a drip plate!
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