Looking for opinions...

[jtmac]

Hello everyone and happy turkey day! I am currently in the planning stages of my dream tank, a custom peninsula style tank. I'm having trouble making up my mind between a 120g 48x24x24 and a 150g 60x24x25. The difference is about 400.00. I would also like to know is people feel that starphire is really worth it or not. It's around 250.00 extra. If I go with the 150 star on 3 sides shipped to Boston is 1250.00 vrs 800.00 from glass cages. Should I just go for broke???? Lol. I'm still a while out, have only raise 400.00 thus far for the project.



Thanks for any advice on this!!

John

 

[reefstarter]

I have 2 210 gallon tanks , one has starfire the other doesn't you can really see a difference in how much clearer the view is or put better how much less distorted the starfire is hard to describe you kind of have to see it to know what I am talking about . It doesn't bother me but if it is your dream tank .......

 

[jtmac]

Thanks reefstarter. Go big or go home I guess. No one else can share any input or suggestions???? Wow, disappointing!

 

[Yariel0527]

Starfire there's a big difference...

 

[P-Nut]

go with the 60x24...I always thought that longer peninsula tanks look a lot nicer. You have a lot more options for aquascaping, for example: You can have it drop like an underwater cliff and leave 10-15" of space for the fish to come swimming from one side, turn and swim on the other side, or build a nice big island in the middle with 10" left on each side for the fish to swim around. You can do that with a 48" but it just isn't long enough to look good (my opinion). And the 60 will have more space underneath.

Also, go with the clearer glass.

 

[jtmac]

Thx, Def have decided to go with a 60x24x24. as far as clarity how do people feel about acrylic? I know there is a scratching issues reported but lets be real you don't get them if you take care of your tank. They have special mag floats for them now. I can get a seaclear 3/4" cast acrylic for 800 shipped vrs 1200 for the glass and I can drill my own holes for overflows where I want them. Thoughts???

 

[JohnK]

Acrylic does scratch dramatically more easily than glass, but you can get scratches out of acrylic though it's a lot of elbow greese to do so.

Have you looked at the Deep sea aquatics 190? 60x27x27 rimless glass. It'll cost a good bit more, but that's a much nicer tank than glass cages will build for you.