SnazzyUrchin792
Well-Known Member
So on Saturday, I picked up a fish tank from a guy that was leaving the hobby and giving his entire setup for free. He had told me that he hadn’t been keeping up with his tank and it needed some work. I didn’t realize how much worm until I got the tank home.
The tank is roughly 100 gallons, and it’s 30”h x 48”l x 16”w. It is sitting on a 30” stand.
The stand has a steel frame covered in pressboard, and a top and bottom rim made out of pressboard. It was all severely water damaged. It has a sump measuring 15”h x 36”l x 10w.
For equipment, it had a return pump (unknown brand) putting out 1500lph/400gph; a Bubble Magus curve 5 skimmer (nonfunctioning); UV sterilizer (unknown brand, didn’t test) Aquatop 200w heater (nonfunctioning); 2-bulb t8 light fixture (nonfunctioning); and Jebao SCP-120 gyre pump (damaged power cord).
Now, it has:
Sicce Syncra 4.0
Bubble Magus skimmer (replaced pump)
Eheim Jager 200w heater
2 NooPysche K7 pro lights (still waiting for them to arrive)
Jebao SCP-120 gyre (bought a new one)
I’m working on removing the wood from the tank, and replacing the wood on the stand with solid oak. The plastic rim of the tank is also damaged and will need replacing. The lid it came with is weird, and I removed it and bought a set of glass lids that don’t fit right because of the broken rim. The tank also doesn’t have a center brace, and I made a temporary solution to hold the lids, but will need a more permanent solution in the future.
The tank has a single corner overflow, with a single return, a drain, an emergency drain and what looks like a third drain? The return and main drain are 3/4in pipes, and the other two drains are 1/2in pipes.
As for stock, the tank had a percula clownfish pair, a three-striped damsel pair, and a pink smith damsel. I sold the three-stripe damsels because I hate most types of damsel, but am hoping the pink smith will work out.
The tank is roughly 100 gallons, and it’s 30”h x 48”l x 16”w. It is sitting on a 30” stand.
The stand has a steel frame covered in pressboard, and a top and bottom rim made out of pressboard. It was all severely water damaged. It has a sump measuring 15”h x 36”l x 10w.
For equipment, it had a return pump (unknown brand) putting out 1500lph/400gph; a Bubble Magus curve 5 skimmer (nonfunctioning); UV sterilizer (unknown brand, didn’t test) Aquatop 200w heater (nonfunctioning); 2-bulb t8 light fixture (nonfunctioning); and Jebao SCP-120 gyre pump (damaged power cord).
Now, it has:
Sicce Syncra 4.0
Bubble Magus skimmer (replaced pump)
Eheim Jager 200w heater
2 NooPysche K7 pro lights (still waiting for them to arrive)
Jebao SCP-120 gyre (bought a new one)
I’m working on removing the wood from the tank, and replacing the wood on the stand with solid oak. The plastic rim of the tank is also damaged and will need replacing. The lid it came with is weird, and I removed it and bought a set of glass lids that don’t fit right because of the broken rim. The tank also doesn’t have a center brace, and I made a temporary solution to hold the lids, but will need a more permanent solution in the future.
The tank has a single corner overflow, with a single return, a drain, an emergency drain and what looks like a third drain? The return and main drain are 3/4in pipes, and the other two drains are 1/2in pipes.
As for stock, the tank had a percula clownfish pair, a three-striped damsel pair, and a pink smith damsel. I sold the three-stripe damsels because I hate most types of damsel, but am hoping the pink smith will work out.
