Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank
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arapaimag,
Question regarding your smaller tanks. What manufacturer do you use to build your acrylic tanks (ex - puffer 800 gallon)?
Thanks again.
Question regarding your smaller tanks. What manufacturer do you use to build your acrylic tanks (ex - puffer 800 gallon)?
Thanks again.
Thank you for the answer.
Have you (ever) felt that you need a bigger tank?
Congratulations, anyway! (I hope I don't repeat myself)
Have you (ever) felt that you need a bigger tank?
Congratulations, anyway! (I hope I don't repeat myself)
I'll have a look for some pics for you.arapaimag;4862910; said:
Well i rehomed him due to me trying to get a S. Formosus, but that never happened. He was around 16inch's and a pig!
You ever had any experience with Leiarius Pictus/Marmoratus or Perrunichthys Perruno???
Have you had any dealings with many Brachyplatystoma Species??
I currently have a Brachyplatystoma Juruense at around 12 inches. Nervous and tricky fish to feed. He doesn't go looking for food like say a Pseudoplatystoma Fasciatum does, but just waits with his feelers out like he would do in say a strong current. Slower growing than my previous P. Fasciatum too.
The 800 old puffer's tank is 3/4" glass. John Petersen (Now living in Virginia) built it and a 240 and 250 which slid in below it, also out of mainly 3/4" glass.NightStorm;4864784; said:
The 360 is also 3/4" glass built by John.
My only acrylics are my 480 and a 520. I did have a 600 acrylic but got rid of it. I bought them from Rich at Aquart (California/Ohio).
All my 225's, 180's, 135, 144, 120's etc I bought from Aquarium Services (Allan Saul aka BIG AL'S) either through his corporate stores or his franchises and delivered from his warehouse.
What kind of building permits did you have to get for building this monster fish tank? In that the town I might be moving to has it where you have to get a pool permit if you set up or build any pool that is 24 inches or deep and this means even a Kio pond. So with permits and building inspecters I'm thinking of highering a professnal cement forms company and have them build the shell of the fish tank and then I add the viewing windows my self to it in that the building imspecters are real hard.
I wounder though if I where to have a cement company come in and pour cement forms for say a 10,000 gallon or a 20,000 would the ecomomies of scale make it as expessive as building a 40,000 or a 70,000 gallon so I'm thinking about building But I might even consder building it to be 70,000 gallons.
I wounder though if I where to have a cement company come in and pour cement forms for say a 10,000 gallon or a 20,000 would the ecomomies of scale make it as expessive as building a 40,000 or a 70,000 gallon so I'm thinking about building But I might even consder building it to be 70,000 gallons.
