1000Litre Aquarium

[rick_wolves]

I am thinking about ordering a custom built 300gallon aquarium...so its gonna be pretty big - 109x26x24inches with a sump. I know in terms of water stability the size would be a good thing, obviously it will cost quite a bit of money to run the equipment, and I will require more filtration on such a big tank.

Can you think of many other drawbacks apart from the expense of it? I was thinking that I will put all the live rock required at the start and then treat it as more of a project and work on stocking it slowly with inverts/fish as and when i can afford it.

Do you think I would need loads of powerheads in a tank that size and do you think positioning will be too difficult?
I'm not a newbie, but I'm also not the most experienced guy here! I have also considered hiring someone with more experience to do monthly maintenance work, based in west mids uk.

any feedback will be appreciated

 

[Morri]

No real issues with a tank that size just needs careful planning I would be tempted to add 10 - 15 Kgs of LR and look at getting some reef bones to scape with and just let it seed for 4 - 6 weeks.

I would look at something like 4 linked MP40s for flow not sure on returns for that size tank Red Dragon 6000 at a guess

 

[rick_wolves]

No real issues with a tank that size just needs careful planning I would be tempted to add 10 - 15 Kgs of LR and look at getting some reef bones to scape with and just let it seed for 4 - 6 weeks.

I would look at something like 4 linked MP40s for flow not sure on returns for that size tank Red Dragon 6000 at a guess

thanks for that, I may go the route of getting slightly less live rock than i would need (say around 50kg) and using base rock for seeding. During that 4-6weeks would i need to leave the tank as it is, or add a few hardy fish or a clean up crew?

 

[Morri]

No real issues with a tank that size just needs careful planning I would be tempted to add 10 - 15 Kgs of LR and look at getting some reef bones to scape with and just let it seed for 4 - 6 weeks.

I would look at something like 4 linked MP40s for flow not sure on returns for that size tank Red Dragon 6000 at a guess

thanks for that, I may go the route of getting slightly less live rock than i would need (say around 50kg) and using base rock for seeding. During that 4-6weeks would i need to leave the tank as it is, or add a few hardy fish or a clean up crew?

I would not add anything at all for 4 weeks as the reef bones need to seed but it is the easist way to scape etc. but makes sure you get reef bones or Dead LR not ocean rock.

 

[ben1987]

if you dont mind 2nd hand equipment, then with the credit crunch a load of big tanks are being broken down all over the place. so equipment is often pretty cheap as theres not many of these big tanks about.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

For water circulation I would consider going for a closed loop system. Not as good imo as the vortech's but one or two decent closed loop pumps would be a hell of a lot cheaper then a few vortechs or even decent sized power heads.

 

[ben1987]

closed loop can be as expensive when pipe work gets complicated, and when running costs are calculated. swings and roundabouts.