Aquarium Dude

By premade do you mean ceiling fittings?

I think I have seen them and they were only $60ish (but could be wrong)(4ft lamp) does anyone know prices?

Where can you get arcadias in chch?

Whats fancy about that? http://www.arcadia-uk.info/product.php? ... ⊂=&id=4 and they arent to much either.

How long is it supposed to cure for and under what conditions?????

Spidersweb: What happened to make the 450l fail???? Afrikan: How did the silicon make the tank fail??????

I agree if there is any risk of scratches it wants extra coats of paint.

You could get it sprayed proffesionally. :lol:

Is it to create convection currents to move water under surface? or what?

So You use Mdf and dont spill water, you could put shallow bins in cupboards. Did you use proper paint, you can get mdf primer and then put aquanamel on (the waterbased paint used in bathrooms (looks slightly glossy))

How long is each spray bar length? How does the bracing thing work?

pipes into tank, uni, just whatever

Floor in concrete 8 foot would be almost a ton though.

Does anyone have any pics of intake outlet etc, would be interested to see.

How do I put up pics?

Oh :roll: :roll: Am I right in thinking weight is evenly distributed over the tanks bottoms surface, if so it will easily hold.

Riverdance test???????? I agree, better safe than sorry!!!!!!!!!

saw a 5ish foot aqua one tank the other day on mdf (Even I would be wary of that particular stand)

Yea your right its actually 600ish Water Type..............................Freshwater Material................................Glass Tank Overhead Shape.....................Rectangular Length..................................65.00 in. Width...................................22.50 in. Height..................................20.00 in. Wall-thickness..........................0.40 in. Volume..................................479.32 L Tank Material Weight....................86.32 kgf Water Volume............................448.74 L Water Weight............................447.44 kgf Substrate Type..........................Sand Average Substrate Depth.................2.00 in. Substrate Weight........................70.66 kgf Approximate Total Weight................604.42 kgf Room Air Temperature....................14.00 °C Water Temperature.......................24.50 °C Heating Capability Required.............298.70 W Approx. Total Fish Length...............121.87 in. Mass Required for 1 PPM.................0.00 kg

You are making me nervous, but lots of proffesional stands are mdf and less than there is on my one.

I made it with the two ends right down to the concreter floor, then a base in between the two ends with the other 2 uprights on it, though will add a rail across the front and 2 more uprights hard against the end 2 to support the rail. so i suppose really that it is going through the base. All mdf is glued and screwed and joins are strong type (top is on top of uprights so that the upright would have to fail to make the top cave in, as opposed to the top being screwed to the side of the uprights, which would be asking for trouble)

Allowed 600 but there will be a beam across the front of the opening 85mm high and so it will have to slide out uynder it (515mm gap)

Just found this... Aqua One CF-2400 Aquis - Suitable for aquariums up to 800 litres. - Canister filter size: 40H x 33D x 33W cm. If the 2200 is a good 100mm shorter that makes it about 300x330x330mm

This is seriously strong, I can jump on it and I worry about things so it will be twice as strong as it needs to be. Ps. looking at the mdf stands it lfs its stronger

how high does that make the 2200