Tank Manufacturers

[E.intheC]

I'm looking to setup a tank in my basement (in-wall) and I'm leaning toward a 90 gallon tank.

That said, I haven't shopped for a medium sized-tank and haven't been paying much attention to companies recently. I know that Marineland had a few leak issues but I need to research that more. They used to make quality tanks. I had a deep blue 90 for a year but it developed a leak and I had to take it down.

What are people using now? Marineland ? Aqueon? I would love an Oceanic tank but they stopped selling them in 2011. There's no budget for a custom manufacturer like Miracles or related. Looks like it's going to be a mass-produced tank.

 

[Yani1133]

When oceanic stop making them their engineers started a company called deep sea aquatics. Saw the tanks in a few shops and they just as nice as my oceanic tank, thats what i'll be buying when i move in a few months

 

[samksy]

I end up with a perfecto/marineland 180g. The seams and everything seems pretty good to me. Looks strong and feels sturdy....lol! Good luck searching for a tank. the 105g DSA rimless looks pretty good to me from bulkreefsupply.com. Price is pretty good for a rimless and you don't have to wait 3 months or so for a custom tank.

 

[E.intheC]

Samsky, are you starting up again? That's great. I still have the radion I bought from you a while back.

DSA is a nice company but their tanks are $$. I am going to look more at the Marineland/perfecto brands at this point I think.

 

[cmantis]

Aqueon are good the Marinelands I have seen have crap seams and or the glass doesn't fit together right (at least the smaller ones).

 

[samksy]

Samsky, are you starting up again? That's great. I still have the radion I bought from you a while back.

DSA is a nice company but their tanks are $$. I am going to look more at the Marineland/perfecto brands at this point I think.

Yeah, I made a fish room for my 180g, In wall but viewable from 3 sides

I would gone DSA if they have 6 foot rim or rimless. Oh well.....they are a bit more expensive but you are paying for quality and the rimless is sexy but maybe not in wall.

 

[E.intheC]

That's good news.

Yeah I was looking at a DSA 5 ft rimmed tank. It was nice. But they don't have the standard dimensions of normal tanks. (That can be good or bad). They wanted something like $1100 for the tank alone. That's too much money.

 

[Serega]

Have you checked this place
http://www.scaquariums.com
I don't know what your budget is, but for $699 delivered you can have a 100 gallon starfire
I can't say about quality first hand, but I did read a couple of threads om RC about them, all good.
Good luck

 

[Yani1133]

Check out some other stores that carry DSA. Thatpetplace in lancaster has them listed for 600 for the 105 tank. During a sale you could prolly do better than that. While still not cheap its better than 1100.

 

[E.intheC]

600 isn't bad. The price I got was from the website and it looks like they included delivery in the charge. Durrr. Lol.

 

[edd]

i have marineland 300DD been set up only 4 months, so far i have no complaints. glass is even and black seems look good.