Good Deal or Not?

tarhull87

tarhull87

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I can get a 75 gallon pre-drilled tank which is reef ready, meaning it has built in overflows and a wet/dry filter. I can get it all for $220. I want to slowly buy parts until I can get it up and running so I want to know if that is a good deal to start off with..
Or should I spend $280 and get the same thing but a 90 gallon tank instead?
 
tarhull87

tarhull87

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Is the price good for either one?
What are yall's opinions on that?
And it says it comes with Wet/Dry, is that good or would i just take the bio-balls and stuff out and make it a sump?
 
saltwaterdave

saltwaterdave

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Originally posted by tarhull87
I can get a 75 gallon pre-drilled tank which is reef ready, meaning it has built in overflows and a wet/dry filter. I can get it all for $220. I want to slowly buy parts until I can get it up and running so I want to know if that is a good deal to start off with..
Or should I spend $280 and get the same thing but a 90 gallon tank instead?
Do you get the return pump?Skimmer? Stand? Lights? If you do that is a great deal!!!!
 
lesleybird

lesleybird

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Hi, I recently got a special order pre-drilled 90 gallon tank from Oceanic. It is the same size as the 75 gallon only about 3 and a half inches or so taller. The guys that own the LFS said that they think it looks a lot nicer than the 75 with the added height and I agree. They said that they were going to order some more like it after seeing mine. The total height is 24 and a half inches.....deep, but not so deep that one cannot reach the bottom for cleaning or moving rocks etc. I like the extra 15 gallons in the same footprint as the 75 as it allows for extra tank water when you consider that the rocks take away a lot of the room for water displacement. I was going to go for the 5 foot 110 gallon tank, but being new to this wet/dry overflow plumbing stuff I did not want to have more than the one overflow box to have to plumb together. Lesley
 
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