Advise about buying a used tank

RubenD wrote:
The tank will have about 300# LR with everything (corals, inverts, anemones)
because I will transfer everything from my actual tank.

Yeah, but that will displace water and be heavier than water. 125 gallons of
salt water weighs over half a ton. Now add in the weight of the stand, tank, and
equipment, and you're in the 1200 pound range before you put in the rock. A good
guess is 1300 to 1500 pounds, stand and all.

In the event the tank has a leak, is it fixable? How is that done?

Tristan's post is accurate. I've fixed leaks in glass tanks, but not acrylic.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Add Homonym wrote:

I'm guessing you just haven't seen to
many canopies that are made for this sort of thing?

Zero would be a special case of "not too many." :-)

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.

Roy "Tristan" Hauer wrote in message
...

Get back to the VA where they can help you feel good about yourself again in
a positive way, not a
destructive way where you have to harm people like old ladies and cripples
in wheelchairs to get gratification and
satisfaction with your life. You don't need to suffer. Get help before you
killsomeone or have someone killed........ GET HELP!


Sure a tank if its acrylic or glass is fixable. Acrylic is easy to fix
over glass. If acrylic its easy to wick in some weldon #3 or #4
solvent, and / or apply a bead or so of Weldon #16, or even apply a
patch of acrylic over a crack usuig weldon solvent..

Glass is just as do able by replaceing internal silicone seals or
fillets, and even glass panels can be replaced......





On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:57:54 GMT, "RubenD"
wrote:

The tank will have about 300# LR with everything (corals, inverts,
anemones)
because I will transfer everything from my actual tank.

In the event the tank has a leak, is it fixable? How is that done?

Ruben




-------
I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Tristan" wrote in message
...

Why aren't you destroying this group like you did all the others Roy Tristan
Hauer? What makes this group immune to your personal attacks on just about
every poster on the pond and aquarium groups? Is it because you consider
this your home group or because no one questions you here and causes you to
go into one of your psychotic episodes? Do you feel like a hero for
destroying the other groups?


What Kurt said...

Parasites on LR should not be a real problem. Is the LR dry now or
what. If its in the tank its should be just fine. About all that
affects liverock is algae or aipstasia, and they are easy to deal
with....Look at the seems or edges where panels are joned. They should
be translucent, with no discoloration or air bubbles. That alone is
pretty good indication of a leakfree tank, but only real way to tell
is fill it up with water and look.......If the tank is already filed
and has the live rock init, then a leak would be reaily apparent and
easily seen. Why not use the stand its on now if its available?
Biggest problem with a lot of acrylic tanks is size. Lots of places
sell and build them so they may or may not ne a standard size......but
a stand is not hard to make or find one that is close and modify to
fit....

-------
I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Tristan" wrote in message
...

Why aren't you destroying this group like you did all the others Roy Tristan
Hauer? What makes this group immune to your personal attacks on just about
every poster on the pond and aquarium groups? Is it because you consider
this your home group or because no one questions you here and causes you to
go into one of your psychotic episodes? Do you feel like a hero for
destroying the other groups? How low can you go man?


Sure a tank if its acrylic or glass is fixable. Acrylic is easy to fix
over glass. If acrylic its easy to wick in some weldon #3 or #4
solvent, and / or apply a bead or so of Weldon #16, or even apply a
patch of acrylic over a crack usuig weldon solvent..

Glass is just as do able by replaceing internal silicone seals or
fillets, and even glass panels can be replaced......





On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:57:54 GMT, "RubenD"
wrote:

The tank will have about 300# LR with everything (corals, inverts,
anemones)
because I will transfer everything from my actual tank.

In the event the tank has a leak, is it fixable? How is that done?

Ruben




-------
I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"Tristan" wrote in message
...

Why aren't you destroying this group like you did all the others Roy Tristan
Hauer? What makes this group immune to your personal attacks on just about
every poster on the pond and aquarium groups? Is it because you consider
this your home group or because no one questions you here and causes you to
go into one of your psychotic episodes? Do you feel like a hero for
destroying the other groups? How low can you go man?


The ultra tall canopies seem to be all the rage on lots of commerical
tanks in doctors offices and such in this part of the woods. There is
a church here with a 210 gal with MH and its canopy has to be at
least 3 feet high. Even the lfs that specializes in SW stocks a few
extra tall hoods as well. He does not stock stands made by the various
aquarium manufactuers, but instead has a local retired fellow make
them for him.....Somewhat cheaper and better made and custom odds and
ends is always an open option. Turns out this old retired fella was
the owner of a large cabinet business here, who has retired and turned
it over to his sons to run, but he plays in the cabinet shop making
stands and hoods as needed.......
-------
I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!