My New 265 Gallon Tank

[mibson]

I am moving to a house soon and excited to buy a large tank to have has my planted show tank.

I talked to two knowledgeable people at the store and one thinks a sump is the way to go, the other feels that canister filters are better for planted tanks with co2. The guy who said go with a large canister feels that the surface agitation in a sump would make it very hard to keep my co2 levels up...

I am also concerned about what type of co2 reactor will work for a tank this large. Im having great of success in my 90g with a glass diffuser with 25% of the co2 running into my filter intake, 50% being blown across the tank with a power head, 25% of the co2 going into a small powerhead that runs into my uv sterilizer - will this work well enough for my 265g?

Any input of stocking is welcomed - Im thinking 50 rummy nose, bosmani and neon rainbows, and denisons (Indian flasher) barbs.

 

[greenscooby]

265G is that Uk or US? Either way a BIG BIG BIG tank, SO jealous.

Mark.

 

[Truck]

i would go for a closed loop sump system

 

[mixmaster jay]

i sucsessfully grow plants in my 218g us with a sump and no co2 what so ever especially cabomba it grows at 1/2 inch per 24 hours roughly ive had it in about a week it was a foot tall and now its as high as the water and its now growing across the top, my tank is 2foot 6 inch high

 

[mike os]

big sump

 

[mixmaster jay]

lol no sorry the sump is 4 x 2 x 2 and the tank is 5 foot 6 x 2 foot x 2 foot 6


that wuold of been a very large sump lol

 

[mibson]

265G is that Uk or US? Either way a BIG BIG BIG tank, SO jealous.

Mark.

265 us gal, Im also thinking about a 300g but it is 3 feet from front to back, not sure it will fit where I want to put it.

i sucsessfully grow plants in my 218g us with a sump and no co2 what so ever especially cabomba it grows at 1/2 inch per 24 hours roughly ive had it in about a week it was a foot tall and now its as high as the water and its now growing across the top, my tank is 2foot 6 inch high

I know you can grow without c02 but I have tried both and I love using co2. I had some giant val growing 10 inches in 24hrs. The main difference Ive seen with c02 and high lighting is the size of each leaf increases allot. I now have a regular sword plant that about 30 inches tall - to tall for my current tank.

 

[mixmaster jay]

i stuggled to get mine in ive had to push it into the alcove lol so you cant see some of the tank

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=285380 have a look at it here mate

i might be moving soon to a bigger place so i can fit my tank properly lol

 

[mibson]

i would go for a closed loop sump system

I like the idea of building a sump. I do have a spare 55g tank after I buy my new larger tank. I will do some research about how to build a closed system sump, do you know any good links?

 

[mibson]

i stuggled to get mine in ive had to push it into the alcove lol so you cant see some of the tank

<a href="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=285380" target="_blank">http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=285380</a> have a look at it here mate

i might be moving soon to a bigger place so i can fit my tank properly lol

Do you have live plants in there? I cant tell. The tanks looks great, I love your choise of fish! Your just like me, overkill on the lights! lol Ive got 4.9wpg on my 55g and my plants love it!

 

[mixmaster jay]

ive got two 4ft x 15 x 18 three 3ft x 15 x 18 and 5 2ft x 18 x 18 i dont know if the 4ft tanks are for sale yet i think one of them will be ive got a couple of pics i will put them on photo bucket and get them on here for you to look at and save, i will look

http/www.freepatentsonline.com/5176100.html

http/www.marinedepot.com/ps_AquariumPage...erlin_sump.html

http/www.brettsreef.com/index.php/how-to...p-with-baffles/

http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_overflow.php

http/www.ehow.com/how_4473218_make-sump-fish-tank.html

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_CwAo_iz4g

have a look at these and see if it gives you any ideas