Glass Cages

[tgriffin]

I agree 100%. I dislike them so much that I'm willing to lose the lifetime warranty by not using them. I plan on making my own stand and having the stand/tank/canopy built into a wall just enough to drywall around it. Behind the wall I plan on having a sump room with a remote sump, light ballasts, ro/di vats, salt vat, etc. The tank would be blacked out on the back side with the overflow and viewable from 3 sides. I was thinking about the 38-40" high range on the stand. I can't stand bending down to look in a tank.

 

[acroholic]

It would be nice if Marineland could engineer the stands in kit form, so you could put it up inside the room, then they could make a reef ready stand of normal height. but I guess there are too many liability issues with that scenario.

 

[tgriffin]

I would be interested in something like that. I'm a little over 6' and don't like to bend over....Hah! I guess I'm a little lazy. I don't want a nice size tank on a tiny stand

 

[cr500_af]

Since it has not been addressed, I'll mention to the OP that if you DO elect to buy a GC tank, do yourself a favor and make the drive to TN to pick it up. A search will reveal a few instances of broken delivery appointments (after the buyer had taken a day off to accept it) and one case where they basically said, "I know we were supposed to drop it off Monday, but even though it's Friday we have it on the truck in ATL and we need to deliver it. If you can't be there within the hour we're taking it back to the factory". Paraphrased, of course, but exactly what happened.

I've seen some fairly nice tanks from them, but as others have mentioned the CS is in the toilet and don't plan on it being done when they say it will. Also, their stands (the ones I've seen) look cheap.

 

[tgriffin]

Well. Marineland is sounding better to me more and more. I'd really like to see other folks tanks that have the 150 DD. Seems like there aren't very many of these around