Slick's Tank Journal(s)

[fishytime]

Looking good man. One thing though...If you ordered your tank through Golds it will be xmas before you get it. Shudda ordered it through us j/k. So what is the gallonage of your new box?

[Slick Fork]

Gonna be 110 gallons total, so same volume as the old one. It'll be 48Lx24Wx22T. I guess I could've gone 2 inches higher and gotten 120 gallons but I've got short arms and found that 24" was just a hair too tall for me to reach the bottom on the last one.

I hope it'll be here soon. They told me 2-3 weeks, Monday will be 3 weeks. I'll buy the next one from you guys just to spread it around a little, how's that sound! I almost never buy hardware locally though, the trouble for me is we have no serious suppliers in Central Alberta so we have to make a trip to the city and HOPE that someone has what we're looking for. Whereas if I order from J&L on Monday they usually have it on my front porch by Wednesday morning. 3 days earlier then I could hope to get to the city. Nowadays even paying for shipping is cheaper then the fuel it takes me to get to Calgary and back. Even warranty stuff gets back to me faster and cheaper then my fuel costs. I'm telling you, the Calgary stores are missing out by not having proper websites that we can order stuff from.

[mseepman]

Setup is looking good. Always glad to see someone documenting their tank build...gives me more opportunity to figure stuff out before I try it.

Have you stopped the Zeo? You originally were doing a 6 month trial but didn't post for a year.

[Slick Fork]

I have been having real mixed results with the zeo. In part I think because my Tunze 9010 skimmer wasn't really designed to work with that kind of system. I do like the system and think once I get this set up up and running with the new more aggressive skimmer I will try the zeo out once more.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Slick Fork

I'm telling you, the Calgary stores are missing out by not having proper websites that we can order stuff from.

Patience....I think its in the works.

[Slick Fork]

I think you might've been right about that Christmas comment Doug, tank is a week and a half later then their most pessimistic estimate (so far) Hopefully it'll be here by this weekend. Good thing I have that 90 gallon horse water trough for the fish. My frag tank however is not looking good at all. I never anticipated It would have to be up and running this long, lost one of my clowns the other day It sucked cause she was my oldest. She started in the 10 gallon nano with me back in 2006. I guess 3 moves was just too much for her.

On a tank related note, should I be concerned about driving the tank an hour and a half in the back of a pickup in the freezing cold?

I got the stand done, just haven't gotten around to pictures of that yet. It's all Birch and Maple construction and I'm actually quite proud of my first real attempt at Cabinet Carpentry!!

[Slick Fork]

Ok, I've gotta vent a little. Just talked to Gold's and it's not going to be ready for this weekend. I was told 2-3 weeks, Monday will be 5 weeks. My corals look like sh@t because they weren't supposed to be in the 33 gallon tank with mediocre lighting and filtration this long (I'm actually thankful most of them are still alive) I've lost a clownfish and a Chromis so far but otherwise my fish are stressed but alive in a bright blue water trough.

I don't mind a few days late but this is getting ridiculous. If I had known I was going to have a month and a half to wait for the dang thing... I could've done a few things rather different.

[JDigital]

That sucks to hear man...

Seems like the tank builders are getting slower and slower in calgary. I want a nice tank so I expect some time for a clean, well built tank, but if a shop can't perform the work in the time that I would like, let me know your too busy to take on more work, and I will find a builder that can do it for me.

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by JDigital

That sucks to hear man...

Seems like the tank builders are getting slower and slower in calgary. I want a nice tank so I expect some time for a clean, well built tank, but if a shop can't perform the work in the time that I would like, let me know your too busy to take on more work, and I will find a builder that can do it for me.

Exactly. I wasn't in a rush and if they had told me it would be a month-month and a half I would've been fine with that, but as it was I rushed to get my old tank out of the way anticipating only having 2 or 3 weeks to repaint the basement, and get all the preparation/stand building done for the new tank. So now it's all been done for 2 weeks except for some odds and ends finishing that I've been picking away at. Nevermind all the extra work keeping several systems up and running for this long

Frustrating