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rdKirby

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6 inches?
Lol. Congrats TankDempsey, hopefully she's interested in 180+. My gf thought a 20 gallon was big when I met her, my 90 gallon blew her mind. Still trying to convince her I need a tank in the two hundred gallon range.

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cdrake261

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Lol. Congrats TankDempsey, hopefully she's interested in 180+. My gf thought a 20 gallon was big when I met her, my 90 gallon blew her mind. Still trying to convince her I need a tank in the two hundred gallon range.

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Took me a while to get my wife to be ok with a 125 gal, still working on a 300 gal. Maybe by the time we buy a house, I can get a 300 gal for the livingroom....
 

rdKirby

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Took me a while to get my wife to be ok with a 125 gal, still working on a 300 gal. Maybe by the time we buy a house, I can get a 300 gal for the livingroom....
That would be awesome man. I hope it works out for you.

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ecoli73

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Me too...gotta get a few other ducks in a row first though
I found it easier to focus on the physical dimension rather than the volume. I upgraded from a 110(5x1.5) to a 300 (8x2) by telling the wife the fish tank will have about 50-60% more dimension then the old one, and it was approved. If I had said 3 times larger, that would have been voted down.


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cdrake261

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I found it easier to focus on the physical dimension rather than the volume. I upgraded from a 110(5x1.5) to a 300 (8x2) by telling the wife the fish tank will have about 50-60% more dimension then the old one, and it was approved. If I had said 3 times larger, that would have been voted down.


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I will keep that in mind...I do think that it won't be a hard sell unless the house is small
 

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Hi there, ecoli. You're so tricky ;)
 

cdrake261

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Hi there, ecoli. You're so tricky ;)
x2....one thing for sure, the big tank is getting a water drip system. Not a fast water drip, just enough to equal the size of the tank a week.

Edit: I mean 30% water change a week, so 300 gal tank needs 90 gals a week or almost 13 gal a day...or should I break the 90 gal water change over a period of a month?
 

SumoNinja

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my wife would not care how huge of a tank I got as long as it's under like 500 gal

she'd be like, ok dude, whatever, as long as you're willing to care for it

and if I got bigger than 500 she'd question it just to make sure I really know that's what I want.

plus she knows i'm too alpha to be stopped anyways. yea, that's just how I roll
 
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