New 415 gallon tank is in and on the stand!

**npaden** · 07-09-2001, 11:23 PM

Well it is finally here and in place!

I had 10 guys helping including me and I don't think we could have done it with even one less guy. And we only lifted it all one time and only about 12"! (the rest of the time we slid it or lifted just one end at a time and placed block under it)
The pallet that had the stand, sump and tank weighed in at 1,880 lbs so I'm guessing the tank itself weighed in at over 1,300 lbs.

Oh well, I will post more later and I'm sure I will have several questions as I'm setting it up but I thought I would get a pic up for those who I've been telling I'm getting a new tank for several months now!

The tank is from inter-american pet suppy and is 415 gallons. The dimesions are 122"X28"X28". The stand is 2" box steel and is 36" tall. The sump is a 135 gallon - 72"X22"X20". I got the front edges machine polished and am very happy with the overall quality of the workmanship on the tank. It is regular 3/4" glass with a black mirrored back and dual overflows with 2" drains and 2 - 1.5" returns/intakes in each overflow. There is not a divider in the tank - just a reflection on the right overflow.

I paid $1,400 for the tank with all options and bulkheads provided. $500 for shipping brought the total to $1,900 plus I bought the stand for and extra $450 and the sump for $400 including shipping. Not sure how good of a deal I got on any of the stuff, Mitch always just quoted me nice round figures that sounded very good to me. He told me he probably estimated low on the sump as it has 6 partitions counting the baffles on the right and he acted like it ended up being a little more work than he had planned but still gave it to me for the agreed upon price.

Oh well, I'm sure I forgot a ton of information, but wanted to get a pic up to show it off.

Here is the pic: New tank pic

FWIW, Nathan

**hcp28** · 07-10-2001, 12:06 AM

Wow that's one MONSTER of a tank what are you going to keep in there little kids

Looks nice hurry up and fill it with water we want to see more pics!!

Henry

**Bamm Bamm** · 07-10-2001, 01:08 AM

Wow that all I can say..that thing is HUGE!!!I LIKE IT!!

**djheywood** · 07-10-2001, 03:33 AM

Very very nice. I think we can all live vicariously through you!

**Biomanjcs72** · 07-10-2001, 08:42 AM

Can I bring a SCUBA class over so we can train in your tank!!!

That's a huge tank, If I bought one that big, it would crash through my floor.

**Ninong** · 07-10-2001, 09:02 AM

Congratulations on your new tank, Nathan.

I guess this means we will have to start calling you Mr. 400 from now on.

Good luck,

Ninong

**drlowz** · 07-10-2001, 09:13 AM

Has anyone ever heard of the npaden ocean? Very nice

**saltjunkie** · 07-10-2001, 10:05 AM

OMG!!!!! The Dr. visited new waters! atleast he picked an awsome thread to visit!

**schrocat** · 07-10-2001, 10:33 AM

Freakin awesome!

**FishKid** · 07-10-2001, 10:46 AM

Man! You could have a school of NASO TANGS!!! VERY NICE!!! what are you gonna keep in there?

mark

**reefhead** · 07-10-2001, 10:48 AM

thats huge

**stang69** · 07-10-2001, 10:50 AM

WOW!!!!!!! I can see a school of tangs or hundreds of Green chromis in there

Jeff

Congrats

**ravenmore** · 07-10-2001, 12:52 PM

wow, size does matter. somehow I'm feeling very inadequate right now............

**Neal359** · 07-10-2001, 01:45 PM

whats a tank that siz weigh???

**npaden** · 07-10-2001, 03:20 PM

Thanks for the comments guys! I am still kind of in shock! ;)

When we got it set on the stand I felt like I had just successfully completed a 100 foot cliff jump or something. I even did some whooping and hollering!

Some more information on the setup. It will be a reef of course! ;)

Lighting will be 4 X 400W MH w/ Iwasaki's and 2-6' vho tubes and 3-5' vho tubes using an Icecap 430 ballast that I already have and a new Icecap 660 ballast. I might switch out to all 5' bulbs on my next bulb change.

I'm going to be running 2 - Ampmaster 3000's with 3-1" sea swirls and 5 other stationary 1" returns. One of the ampmasters will be on a recirculating loop and the other will run the return back to the tank.

I have a custom made dual beckett skimmer made by myreef and a custom calcium reactor as well. I will be running the skimmer with 2-Mag 12's and the reactor with a Mag 5.

I have 2 - 20 amp circuits on gfci's with a total of 24 available plugs on the wall behind the tank. I will run 1 Ampmaster and 1/2 the lighting on each ciruct so if one circuit trips the other will still provide lighting and water movement in the tank.

I plan on trying to have a lagoonal area with less flow and mostly LPS and Clams on the left in a horseshoe rock pattern with a groove in the middle and a crest on the right side of the tank with mostly sps on the right side with 5 of the 8 returns going to the right side of the tank.

Oh well. Again more things will come to me. I might start another thread next week when I start actually plumbing it. I have some sketches of the plumbing setup, etc. but nothing ever turns out the way you originally planned it!

P.S. - I just got off the phone with Mitch letting him know the tank arrived in great shape and that I was very pleased with it. Turns out he had underestimated the shipping wieght by around 600 lbs (I added a sump and stand for only $100 of additional shipping) and he ended up eating over $500 of shipping charges above the amount that he had quoted me. So prepaying the shipping worked very well for me and not so well for Mitch.

FWIW, Nathan

Here is another pic with my wife standing beside the tank for a size perspective. My wife is 5'4".

**FishKid** · 07-10-2001, 03:55 PM

Dont tell me your putting her in the tank!

mark

**Reinhold** · 07-10-2001, 07:03 PM

Wow! You could swim laps in that tank!

PS: The wife is a babe.

**organicreefer** · 07-10-2001, 07:11 PM

fishkid:he doesnt have the room, wives do best in groups.

looks like you have room for pretty much anything else though.congratulations its an awesome setup

**BTL** · 07-10-2001, 07:16 PM

WOW, your SUMP puts my tank to shame! That is going to be freaking awsome when you get it done!

Ira

**saltjunkie** · 07-10-2001, 08:55 PM

To quote our lone hero in the reef world, from the movie anyway... Duece Bigelow
"Thats a big bit.."

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