Tank Maker

[Tony.Bates]

Hi folks

Can anyone suggest a good tank maker for a new Marine? Proposed dimensions are:

1500w x 500d x 550h

I'm thinking that 10mm glass would be the story

At this stage, 1 overflow box in the Right hand rear for a Durso Standpipe, 3 blukheads in the floor of the tank for drain and Closed loop flow, and 4 bulkheads in the rear wall of the tank for return and closed loop return.

Anything I'm missing?

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[ghostface]

1500w x 500d x 550h

go bigger you'll thank yourself later

[wasp]

If you drop a pm to Cracker, he had someone do his tank who did a nice job at a good price. In Auckland though but may be worth a trip.

[Tony.Bates]

Haha, I wish, thats pushing the available space as it is! :roll:

[slappers]

hi tony greg done mine hes in aucks well worth the trip

or did i read somewhere hes off with cuts

[rossco]

Thats the other dude...

[suphew]

Pete at port nick glass in Wlg is good, and will deliver most places in the North Island.

I agree with ghost face, my tank is around 1680L X 600H X 650F/B, I sort of wish I had gone a bit longer front to back to give myself more room to play with. It looked huge empty but once the water goes in the f/b just disappears.

I used 10mm glass, very happy with it, I was able to go without a brace in the middle (just 70mm odd round the edges) which is really good for access and lighting, plus because the tank base is so rigid the stand only has 'legs' at either end and making access to sump so much better.

I wouldn't plumb the return through the tank, this will limit what you can do with it (i.e. moving it or adding sea swirls) plus would make it harder to add an anti-syphon hole, up and over is the way to go.

I don't like the look of plumbing going into the tank, having holes in the back of the tank will make this almost impossible to hide and will make the plumbing of the pumps more difficult. I'm running two closed loops from the base of the tank, to the flow goes out the bottem middle of the tank into the pump and straight up at either end. Putting them out the back means you will either have to add more bends to the plumbing to get the pumps out of the way or have 300-400mm space at the back so you have room for the taps and pumps (and I guess stress on the bulkheads holding up the pumps). The other advantage of the plumbing going out the bottem is I have build the rock work on top of it so the only plumbing you can see in the tank is the return.