Building a 1500 Gallon plywood & glass tank

[GOAT13]

What an amazing build! The rays look great in there, and i love how all the fish school. It looks great in that size set up!
I cant wait to buy my new house and take on one of these builds but will take me much longer to do.
Great work!

 

[critter4life1981]

Beautiful job you did here VL. Will definately keep this thread as a favorite and come back to it when I'm ready to build my Monster Tank. Awesome stock too!

 

[VLDesign]

1 Year update videos...

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQU1AFI-70[/YT]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQU1AFI-70

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Us_rZ3Zgc[/YT]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Us_rZ3Zgc

 

[pmd5700]

Incredible build! It must be so fun just sitting and watching all those fish. Great job!

 

[Egon]

So after a year, would you do anything different? Is maintenance what you expected? (relatively speaking) Any humidity issues in the house? Any surprises or "oh crap" issues?

 

[VLDesign]

Anything different? hmm...

Actually yeah I would have made it bigger, and might have actually reconfigured the basement as well.

I have had no humidity issues at all, there are some spots of mold around the top edge of the tank but nothing alarming and it's near the edges where water splashes so I guess it's to be expected.

The clear tops cut down on the light more than want but without them the flag tails jump out so I guess that's something I can't fix.

Over all I am very happy with it.

 

[Sirspifalot]

I didn't see the stink rays...are they still around?

 

[xdragonxb0i]

hey VL, where did you get 10foot plywood?

 

[VLDesign]

I didn't use 10' plywood.. Used 8' and the last section was just a 2' piece. Then where the seam was I doubled up the 2x supports just for the seam.

And the rays are gone.. They just didn't fit in with what I have going on there.

 

[Lissaspence]

I know it's a broken record by now but.....Amazing! Since you got rid of the rays were you able to put the FRT back in?