Petco 1$ per gallon sale

Dont know if you guys know or not, but the Petco 1$ per gallon sale is this week and next. I picked up a 55, 40breeder, and a 29. Cost me 140$ or so with taxes. The sale is for the 10,20H,20L,29,40B,and55g.

i LOVE the $1 per gallon sale - excellent way to get your sumps in order

now, if I only didn't want a rimless cube, id be money ahead

time to buy some 40B's

woo hoo!!! guess I should pick up one for my new sump that I'll be starting in the near future too!

thanks eddie!!

Wish they had this sale for all of their tanks. They used to include hex's and cubes, but I think they lost their shirt so they dont do it anymore. A 55dollar 55g, is the perfect candidate to learn to drill a tank. If I had ordered one drilled it would have been about 200$. I figure I could screw up 2 and still be ahead. If I get it right the first time, Im in business!

55's generally are undrillable.
quoting club president
If you drill a tempered tank it will shatter.
If the tank is older and you can't find any info on whether it is tempered or not I have 2 suggestions to test for the glass being tempered. Put the tank outside on a bright day and with a pair of polarized sunglasses look through the tank if you see what appear to be little circles or squares the tank is tempered. Another way is to use a glass cutter. In the spot you want to drill apply some cutting oil to the inside of the tank. Using a glass cutter, roll it across the glass. If the glass cutter scores the tank it is most likely not tempered if it leaves no mark then it is hardened and tempered.

As far as I know AGA only tempers the bottom of their tanks. But I will def check with a glass cutter first.

thanks for that info Paul! always better to be safe than sorry!


just wanted to bump this up since we don't have much time on this sale.......isn't it only until this Saturday?

This Friday or Saturday.

its thru the 23rd and while supplies last. that's a quote from the salesman at my local petco.

I picked up a 20 and 2 29's .. One of them made my new sump!!

Thanks for the sale info.

Most tanks are only tempered on the bottom. It's cheaper to manufacture that way.

Thanks spinycheek. My lfs guy told me the same thing. Im looking forward to drilling it. If I blow it apart im out 55$, and ill wait until december for teh next 1 per gallon sale and just get an over flowbox or try again

Originally Posted by ccollins618

its thru the 23rd and while supplies last. that's a quote from the salesman at my local petco.

The sale ends today at my Petco I'm about ready to head over to pick at the scraps :P

Originally Posted by LadyOfIreland

The sale ends today at my Petco I'm about ready to head over to pick at the scraps :P

Hopefully there are more than just scraps left for you to pick through. What sizes are you looking to get?

Originally Posted by ccollins618

Hopefully there are more than just scraps left for you to pick through. What sizes are you looking to get?

Something to replace my 10 gallon hospital tank. I picked up one of the 20 gallon high tanks, so that will be much better

Gonna use the 10 gallon to raise pods and grow chaeto.

I think that sounds like a great idea having a tank just for pods and macro algae.

Originally Posted by ccollins618

I think that sounds like a great idea having a tank just for pods and macro algae.

I hope it works! I keep having issues with chaeto die-off. Seems though that that happens to a lot of reefers. Hopefully I can just grow it in a tank with pods so if and when it dies off in my other tanks, I can just replenish. And if it starts getting to be too crowded, I'll just cut some and sell it for cheap to other reefers.

And I've always wanted to cultivate my own pods. I'm going to go to Puget Sound sometime in the next few weeks to catch some wild pods and see if I can breed them. I will have to acclimate them to a warmer water temperature (even without a heater, the tank wouldn't get as cold as the Sound is). If I am successful, then I am set!

Maybe I should do a build thread on this... Hmmmm....

you should definitely do a thread on this. I am very interested in seeing this done. If you do it well, I may give it a go to help with feeding my seahorse throughout the day while I am at work.

I am doing a 55 fuge/macro tank so I will be very interested in your thread. You can culture pods easily in green water or a chaeto/ulva tank. The biggest things I have researched to be detrimental are protein skimmers and too many powerheads. You want low flow. Maybe a large predator to make ammonia to feed the macro (not something that eats pods obviously), or simply start with a huge number of pods to make ammonia to feed the macro. Reefcleaners.org has a ton of species to buy, and info on their care.