Building my new 400 litre + - tank and stand

awesome .. I can only hope the 90x60x60 I am after will look this good. What hight did you go with in the end? That is 10mm SF glass - wonder if you will see deflection .. please keep posting pics, it really does look awesome

Later Ferdie

 

haha thanks Man im really stoked just need to build a canopy put some doors on and ill be getting to the finish line haha

 

That's very neat. Well done.

 

@f-fish lol only saw ur post now, went with 58cm hehe looks very high wont lie!! in real life it looks really high haha but i like it!! im gonna have a slope soo yea will work i hope!!

 

Oh and what u mean deflection??

 

when you fill the tank with water - do you see the 10mm glass bow on the long side.. if so by how much

 

3.5 is king on braceless

 

YEa i did that check when i organised my glass!! ummmm unfortunately i havnt seen it full of water im at varsity but went to pe to fetch it and drop it off at home on friday haha, probably only get to fill it up on the 9th of june sucks so much!! i dont think it will bow!! there is no diff in strength between SF glass and normal clear float! if it bows ill be like :O :O hope it doesnt

 

@wrenchy, that is what I call a real stunner!!!! Looking marvelous!!!! SF glass just do it for a tank of that size. All of the best with the wait till the 9th of June.

 

@wrenchy i think that tank looks pretty awesome dude

 

Looks fantastic with that black silicone, I'd leave it open top if I was you. With some suspended lights and fish that hopefully won't be suicidal

 

@Whipme good idea that one, but where do you find fish that dont jump! lol

 

hahahaha got to agree with @mydummyname haha, i have lost way to many suicidal fish!! to lose anymore!!

 

yep. unfortunately, even the most calm fish can sometimes get spooked. i wouldnt risk it. but if you could somehow put some glass sliders on the tank, you would be able to get away with the same principle of the suspended fitting..

 

The theory is that they won't jump if the conditions are perfect, but that doesn't seem to be the case in practice.
What about a stealth net over the top of the tank? Just a simple aluminium frame with some black netting, that way it won't interfere with the lights and you can even feed the fish through it.

 

lol the theory is fine until you walk into the living room and find your bala shark flopping on the floor 2 meters away from tank hehe

so @wrenchy - made any decisions yet as to which way you gonna go?

 

How thick is your glass? Bracing is usually for longer tanks to stop the glass from bending under the pressure of the water.

 

@mydummyname im not sure, but most probably a traditional cover haha!

@Whipme thats actually a pretty good idea!! wow surprised no1 else has done it!! ill see how it goes!!

@TheGrissom its 10mm SF glass, dont think it will bend!

 

@TheGrissom i think we've already established earlier in the thread that the 10mm glass used for this tank is more than sufficiently strong and to boot there is additional bracing on the bottom of the tank as well. this tank is seriously strong. a real beauty as well.

personally i think this tank would make a beautiful discus tank to hold a nice school of about 6 discus, at 60L required per fish, the water volume is sufficient and with such a high tank, it would compliment the tall / round shape and look of the discus.

and on this forum, you would have no shortage of GOOD advice on keeping such fantastic fish.

please note: any of my comments made on discus is subject to correction, as we have discus keepers on this forum with some serious knowledge of keeping these beauties and their knowledge far surpasses my own, which is in fact, gleaned mainly from this this forum.

one day when i'm big i think i'll keep discus

 

@wrenchy I'm currently thinking of making a net cover for my 50cm tank as well, because my White Clouds are dwindling in numbers. My guess is the cat eats them before they turn into fish biltong because I haven't seen any fish on the floor.