Well, the tank took my breath away... very nice, I would imagine its bigger than most public aquariums?
You said in your original post that you only expected it to retain water for 10years, what was this assumption made upon, and why?
I am a frequent user of another fishfourm, fishforums.net, and I was talking a few months about making large tropical tanks, not as big as your but I was talking about 10'x6'x8' or something like that. anyway, The idea was to make it so it was outside, I live in the UK, so its gets cold during the winter and I was told the tank glass would crack under the cold.
So I suggested maybe building a room around it, well build the room first and intergrate the tank as apart of it, If you understand. I was informed that I couldnt do it as I wouldnt be able to heat the water... but your tanks make me think again.
How do you heat yours? I did have a look for the answer in your posts but didn't see it, wither its not there or I missed it
All this was all dreaming, if I were to make this tank, I would have to make it MUCH bigger, as I think I would have to have either tiger shovelnose catfishes or RTCs or even a group of the hybrids between these as they are amazing looking fish.
Although on the other hand, I might go with smaller fish, such as Polyterus's, clownloaches, snakeheads, etc and come of the smaller cats like lima shovel nose's.
Oh the power of thought, already told the GF when we start looking for a house next year, we HAVE to have a garage, and its going to become my fish house, for my corydora breeding and hopefully plecs and Polyterus
/me goes to work out to see if he can make his room air-tight and fill it with water....
You said in your original post that you only expected it to retain water for 10years, what was this assumption made upon, and why?
I am a frequent user of another fishfourm, fishforums.net, and I was talking a few months about making large tropical tanks, not as big as your but I was talking about 10'x6'x8' or something like that. anyway, The idea was to make it so it was outside, I live in the UK, so its gets cold during the winter and I was told the tank glass would crack under the cold.
So I suggested maybe building a room around it, well build the room first and intergrate the tank as apart of it, If you understand. I was informed that I couldnt do it as I wouldnt be able to heat the water... but your tanks make me think again.
How do you heat yours? I did have a look for the answer in your posts but didn't see it, wither its not there or I missed it
All this was all dreaming, if I were to make this tank, I would have to make it MUCH bigger, as I think I would have to have either tiger shovelnose catfishes or RTCs or even a group of the hybrids between these as they are amazing looking fish.
Although on the other hand, I might go with smaller fish, such as Polyterus's, clownloaches, snakeheads, etc and come of the smaller cats like lima shovel nose's.
Oh the power of thought, already told the GF when we start looking for a house next year, we HAVE to have a garage, and its going to become my fish house, for my corydora breeding and hopefully plecs and Polyterus
/me goes to work out to see if he can make his room air-tight and fill it with water....
