henward Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I am redoing the initial Post so it has all the summary of what I have done start to finish. Plan: 1700 Litre – 2400 x 1200w x 630h - **safety factor of 3.8 Stocking: Current: 1x Red Arowana 1x 25cm L190 1x Albino Sailfin 1x xxl male GBA 3x Suncats 2x Parrots 1x Silvershark, Tinfoil Barb, Red Sev, Texas, midas 1x Indo Dat 1x Chocolate talking cat Future Additions: Maybe 3 to 4 L190 Blue phantoms, king tigers, Magnum, snowball, cactus and assorted Plecos Clown Knife/royal Fire Eel Few Clown loaches 1x ornate bichir 1x oddball Dat, 1x Amercan Dat Fishroom Is insulated with batts and poly sheets. H3 Treated Ply. Stand: custom steel stand with levelling feet – Powdercoated Feet can handle 900Kg each (12 feet in total) Tank Design: ‘braceless’ Look – 2x sheets on the bottom to provide a braceless look, but the entire length/width is actually braced with a whole piece of glass. Overflow on the Right – Internal filterbox on the left for mechanical filtration. Think an inbuild internal filter with a massive pump. Build Day: Greg Arrives with glass! Done! In this build, The fittings are all built onto the unit, so the sump and the tank can be as ‘closed’ as possible to allow minimal evaporation and smell escaping. Electrics: Power Box has all the gear in it and plugs/controllers. Temperature controller for up to 3.4 KW of heating. LED controllers and switches for multiple viewing mode and timer for ‘daylight’ ‘ Dusk/dawn’ settings. Built in plugs for heater to the temp controller and PUMP for the water change system 2 spare plugs for misc stuff and 2 switches for LED units The Guts! The Sump: 1600 x 500 x 500 4x 100 micron socks. First Chamber: Heating Second Chamber: K1 Moving Media – 50Litres of K1 third Chamber: 90Litres of Assorted Ceramic bio Media Fourth Chambe: Return pumps Water Change System: Moving on from my old set up of timers and a constant drip into the drum. I have had the opportunity to change that to a ‘one button operation’ wc system. The sump has a drain so it automatically drains the water as it is put in. The system is a smart relay system. Press Button Pump turns on Level Switch detects low level Pump off Solenoid is triggered allowing water to refill the 200litre drum Full level switch is triggered Solenoid shuts and the cycle can begin again I drilled a hole diagonally in the corner of my slab – I then fed a hose through it, into a conduit so it is out of the way and more discrete. Will bury hose under the soil too. Through the hole out the hole Lighting: 2x double 4ft T8, 1x single T8 (Daylight) , Internal submersible tanning light fitting, 2x 2.4M dim LED (Dusk/Moonlight), 2x Superbright 2.4m LED strip. Light Progression The tank as of 30/6/2013 Complete with substrate, wood and all the systems running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reptilez Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 This is going to come out spectacular !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 :thup: :spop: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 So im guessing by all those links you want some dats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 So im guessing by all those links you want some dats Yes :-D Stocking : Red aro 2x sun cats 1x Albino sailfin 1x jag 1 or 2 oscar - 1x albino tiger 1x normal red or pigeon blood 1x red sev 1x midas 3x dats 1x fh 2x royal plec 1x cactus pleco 1 or 2 king tiger plec Maybes : 1x dull eye maybe.. 1x blue phantom 1x choc cat 1x ornate Going fpr around 20 ish fish.. Not much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 :spop: good stuff bro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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disgustipated Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 what is that huge fish on the bottom of the tank in this vid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 I don't know... But its cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reptilez Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 Everyone is waiting patiently :cofn: Biggest full glass tank that I will ever see ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insectile Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 what is that huge fish on the bottom of the tank in this vid? Its some type of lungfish :sage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted March 7, 2013 Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 So by layout you mean absolutely no decor haha. If we could get those black barred silver dollars in that 1st vid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 So by layout you mean absolutely no decor haha. If we could get those black barred silver dollars in that 1st vid... no, will have decor, wood mostly for royals. some caves for cichlids and cats. but no substrate for starters, see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2013 I am heavily considering this. http://www.petware.co.nz/Product/info/JW86930 its 60 by 55 cm so height is perfect. length i would need 4 to cover the length of tank. an extra maybe to cover overflows. it would look nice and siliconed on the tank before we put water in! feedback would be great! like this http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?hl=en&bi ... =171&ty=68 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted March 8, 2013 Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 what is that huge fish on the bottom of the tank in this vid? Australian lungfish. Very cool but on the CITES list so pretty hard to get. Reptiles I've seen bigger glass tanks overseas, and there will be another slightly bigger on here soon. Henward I'd think twice about the background if you're going to keep plecs. I've seen them destroyed by rays and I think panaques would be worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 Australian lungfish. Very cool but on the CITES list so pretty hard to get. Reptiles I've seen bigger glass tanks overseas, and there will be another slightly bigger on here soon. Henward I'd think twice about the background if you're going to keep plecs. I've seen them destroyed by rays and I think panaques would be worse. Yeha, davids tank is gonna be huge! 1000gallons ? the background is plastic, royals will eat through it., though to be honest, i dont mind if they look weathered . make sit look natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted March 8, 2013 Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 I'm not sure how weathered it will look, or what the plastic would do to their digestive systems!! Maybe some sort of clear hard epoxy coating would help? How high are you making the weir for your overflow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 apparently the background can be cut, so i would probably do that to fit around the overflow and the actual overflow drain at the top of the water line. that is an issue. I just love that look - juwel sells a lot of this as well, quite common. i am leaning heavily towards it. the royal has plenty of wood and will have plenty of food in the tank. I dont think they will prefer to suck on and scrape plastic vs algae wafers and smelly wood:D I was really having doubts about the bare tank and bottom. I like it to a degree, but to be honest, its quite sterile.... just keeps reminding me of those bare tanks in asia tha tlook like prisons more than aquariums lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted March 8, 2013 Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 My plecs still rasped the background in my old tank with all the food and wood. They certainly look good, might look a bit strange with no substrate tho. To get the 60cm water level how high will the overflow be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 My plecs still rasped the background in my old tank with all the food and wood. They certainly look good, might look a bit strange with no substrate tho. To get the 60cm water level how high will the overflow be? yeah i love the look. I th ink i will go with substrate. loks more natural. i like bare tank cos its clean but really... i wnt it to look natural and nice! as for over flow. water level will be 60cm max. so overflow will prob start around 58cm, giving 2cm gap for whent he tank fills and delay in drain. i dont think it willb e that much delay, i will have a rectangular overflow so there is more surface area. i was considering a very thin over flow that is diagonal but so the backgrounds fit better. but not sure if there is enough space for water to gather and drain in time. I think i really wanna go for the natural look now i have been considering it more. i would have the same sandy black substrate as before, i still have the substrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 now i am having second thoughts on background! just read that plastic plants etc can be rasped by the royal! so they can get blocked up and die from the pieces!!! gggrrrr maybe then i may have to sacrifice the royal plecos IF i want the background. have other plecs instead that doesnt have the ability to shred wood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted March 8, 2013 Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 You could make a really cool background using thin bits of schist rock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted March 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 You could make a really cool background using thin bits of schist rock? yeah, considred that, but gonna make the back panel way way too heavy. not comfortable with that, extra weight that may alter the natural gravity of the tank. I am posting on planet catifsh for feedback too. maybe someone has experienced it but i may have to forego the royals, stick to meat non wood eaters instead. maybe blue phantoms again and the like. the funy thing is, when i had heaps of royals, they wre ALWSAYS on the wood. they would also rasp algae on the walls but they generally stick on the wood and rasp that continually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxxnz Posted March 8, 2013 Report Share Posted March 8, 2013 wow i clicked on the first link of youtube without reading any thing and though it was your tank!! :rolfl: untill those feeder gold fish pop in and its refresh in my memorie.. so is water in tank yet? looking forward to see some big boy.. :f77: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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