MY sweet craigslist pick up(150)!!!!!!

I traded a 55g with stand for this 150 w/stand, because one of the seems blew out ...... It is has now been completely resealed and holds water (a huge thanks to addicted2ca) and will finally be complete when I get the braces on the top. I am expediting the cycling process by running two filters that were being used on two of my other tanks, and by throwing in a handful of my juvenile hybrids and a few others in there...... it's not a perfect setup, but it works well for a garage tank! looking forward to making this tank a nice growout tank so that I can put the best of the best in my house tanks! here are some pictures

the current setup with a couple of channel clamps (until the brace reinforcements are made)
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I couldn't decide on a substrate, so I mixed both... lol
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It came complete with a fish measuring device
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the background is a gray color that we used to paint one of our rooms..... SO far, the entire tank has only set me back around $30 dollars ( the 55 I had was given to me a few years ago)

Good deal! I never thought to have a 'garage tank'.....

If my new little cat turns out to be a monster, I might have to have a garage tank of my own one day.

Nice!

DMD123 wrote:Good deal! I never thought to have a 'garage tank'.....

If my new little cat turns out to be a monster, I might have to have a garage tank of my own one day.

I have ten (10) "garage tanks"....all are in the garage and all are worthy of staying there (well...one of them I want in the house...real bad...but that's another story) Anyway, nice tank and congrats!!!!

very nice. congrats.

thanks all, i am pretty stoked to have a decent sized tank in the garage for my little grow outs......i'll update the pictures soon (once the braces are in and the tank is completely full of water.

can't go wrong with a 150g for 30 bucks lol! Interesting color choice for the background, never seen grey. I think it would be pretty awesome if someone with some decent artistic talent painted a background grey with various black lines to make it look like cracks in a rock wall. Nice score! keep us updated with pics

FrontosaDude wrote:can't go wrong with a 150g for 30 bucks lol! Interesting color choice for the background, never seen grey. I think it would be pretty awesome if someone with some decent artistic talent painted a background grey with various black lines to make it look like cracks in a rock wall. Nice score! keep us updated with pics

yeah, that would be pretty cool! I wasn't sure that I was going to like the grey, but the grey actually makes the tank look larger than it is(gives the impression of a murky river bed extending back into the shore, and for some reason, the fish's color actually pops with that as a back drop. it's kind of weird and counter intuitive......i will post up some pics soon

NeatO! Im going to b extending the hobby into the garage soon too. Looks like you got a great find.

here are tonights pics:
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Nice, looking good.

That is awesome, I love fixer projects! All you need now is a BEvERage fridge and a La-Z-Boy next to it so you can chill in the garage with your fish.