An aquarium is just a glass box.

[B-O-F]

Or is it ?

If you were to start from scratch, building your own tanks, what woould you put in them - how would you design them ?

( designing my new fish room.... might as well be inventive !!! )

[pcsb23]

To be honest, as little as possible I'd try and find a way to have no brace bars and definitely no sharp edges! That way easy to clean and work on and in.

[brewmaster15]

If you were to start from scratch, building your own tanks, what woould you put in them - how would you design them ?

I'd go Taller...


I'd love to have a group of tanks or at least one that is very tall... maybe 4 feet wide X 3 feet deep by 6-7 Feet tall.
and in it... a buttressed Tree stump...tannin waters and slightly sanded bottom...

The amazon in the rainy season look. I think it would be very interesting to try and mimic that low water high water periodic change in a tank and observe the fishes behavior.

-al

[Kindredspirit]

The amazon in the rainy season look.

-al

I would love to see a picture of a tank that looks like this!

[tpl*co]

I'd go Taller...


I'd love to have a group of tanks or at least one that is very tall... maybe 4 feet wide X 3 feet deep by 6-7 Feet tall.
and in it... a buttressed Tree stump...tannin waters and slightly sanded bottom...

The amazon in the rainy season look. I think it would be very interesting to try and mimic that low water high water periodic change in a tank and observe the fishes behavior.

-al

OHHHH, I'm invisioning a giant paladarium (Or a tank with both underwater and above water tanks), with a rain water change feature!

Tina

[B-O-F]

I'd go Taller...


I'd love to have a group of tanks or at least one that is very tall... maybe 4 feet wide X 3 feet deep by 6-7 Feet tall.
and in it... a buttressed Tree stump...tannin waters and slightly sanded bottom...

The amazon in the rainy season look. I think it would be very interesting to try and mimic that low water high water periodic change in a tank and observe the fishes behavior.

-al

The lengths you are going to go to to get your Heckals to breed ?

[C_of_Discus]

Well I have been thinking about this myself.

I think if you could build a tank that had a hole in the bottom and maybe even sloped sides. Imaging a water bottle on a water cooler.

You could than hook up a pump to drain all the water or just gravity, then all the waste could be removed very easy.

Maybe a flat kind of screen over it to enable you to add gravel and make the bottom flat like a plastic plate with holes be for the funnel type bottom.

The filter could be attached to the bottom funnel. Only issue if you had too strong of a current you would have fish stuck to the bottom

[brewmaster15]

The lengths you are going to go to to get your Heckals to breed ?

yep

[Tropical Haven]

I would like to make mine U shaped with my recliner that fits right inside it.

[B-O-F]

I would like to make mine U shaped with my recliner that fits right inside it.

That is more or less the plan the room is 18ft X 11 ft so fairy deep tanks down two sides and across the bottom to form a 'U' woth me sat in the middle watching

[brewmaster15]

Please remember to take many pics documenting the Journey for all here to enjoy!

-al

[B-O-F]

Please remember to take many pics documenting the Journey for all here to enjoy!

-al

Seems fair. I have spent loads of time on here looking at other peoples

[forrest]

hi BOF,
i just got my new adition tanks set up.some pic for ur reference.
im not sure how often ppl at ur country doing custom made tank.mine here r tanks that dont use any rack at all,they r 2 tier n the bottom tier deck up the top one.

rgds,
forrest.

[Tropical Haven]

Very unique looking setup, looks like your supports are actually the sides of all of your tanks as one piece.

[forrest]

hi scott,
u r right,the tanks r suppurted by the side glasses,they r thicker then the others as 10mm glass.they r actually 2 pcs in a set(top n bottom).

rgds,
forrest.