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Concept Aquariums 750G Fish Only
So the system I look after in the shop is a 16.5 foot fish only aquariums
196 by 28 by 30. It has 3 X 60 inch 4 bulbs tek lights Bubble king 300. The beast! 4 X aquatop duel power heads 2 X mag 18 for returns 7 X jäger 300w heaters. Soon to be added 2 reactors gfo and carbon. As for the live side. 340 pound of crushed coral sand 300 pound of dry rock donated by "Fiji Reef Rock" also helped aquascaped! 200 pound of live rock donated by "CoralMaster" Livestock: 2 unicorn tangs 1 convict tang 1 regal tang 1 lavender tang 3 EVIL lion fish that I want to take out, if I can ever catch them 1 blue lined trigger 1 clown trigger 1 bursa trigger 2 snowflake eels 1 Diana hogfish 1 maroon clown fish 1 lunar wrasse 1 banana wrasse 1 starry blenny 1 chromis blue/green 1 cleaner wrasse that eating mysis 1 yellow blotch rabbit fish It still got through a bit of a cycle. As half the rock have algae on them, but my algae fighter are working there way threw it. |
Ah the Evil lion fish they are cool just evil
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Pictures are a must for this big beast.
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you must have fun trying to feed the eels with 3 triggers in the tank.my trigger ,batfish and princess parrot swoop down and steal my eels food half the time
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the eels mostly only eat at the end of the day. so through out the day all the fish get fed.
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Seriously guys. Pictures please!
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no pictures = it is not real, everything is in Matt head
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picturesssssssssssss lol i know you have them :P
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GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
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Pictures or it didn't happen
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Pictures are worth a thousand words, so I can't read a thousand word fast enough, give me some pics. regards ken
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Looks WAY better in person.
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Agreed way better in person
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is that a banana and lunar wrasse i see? looking forward to seeing this thing with fish in it!
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Sweet tank.
Is there a reason why you decided against making it wider? |
stick tank matt!!!! love the wrasses and deep downside i want a FWOLR aswell so iam really madjelly!!!
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we could have shortened the height a bit but we wanted to have a bit of both depth and height :) cheers denny |
One day we're going to have a discussion about how pressure works, width doesn't limit length or height provided width <= length.
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Steve are you saying any safely designed rectangular tank can actually be as wide as it currently is long without issue?
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Tanks are governed by three things, static pressure, hydrostatic pressure force, and seam stress. Static pressure is just density x gravity x height and has nothing to do with length or width. The hydrostatic force is the outwards force from static pressure, can be applied as equivalent at center of pane. This force creates a bending moment at your seams, the longer the moment length the higher the moment, so the governing dimension will be the longest length, additional width does not matter provided it does not exceed length. Seam stress comes from static pressure and hydrostatic force but can be reduced by larger seams (thicker glass), it will mostly relate to bending moment so again limited mostly by length. So when designing a tank things to consider are maximum length and height, then it's just a matter of choosing the appropriate glass thickness to satisfy three governing load cases. The results will be identical for both LxWxH & LxLxH provided W<=L, again this is excluding the base which should be considered in the stand design. |
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at the end of the day its about what we feel comfortable selling or building, and the last thing we want is to cause anyone any house or business damage, with this tank in particular this was the space we had available and the glass we were able to get at the time. |
over 2000 tanks under our belt and weve never had a blowout,break or seam tear apart(that i know of) so i feel like we are doing a good job on our glass choices and size restrictions:)
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Well as long we're clear you're designing based on feelings and not math I'm fine with that ;). Just pointing out you often note width as a limiting design factor but as far as science is concerned it's simply not the case.
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I might have just said something like "because we wanted space for people to walk in front of it."
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i had orginally wanted to do 48 inch wide but just couldn't make it fit with the layout of the store |
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i know we have never seen eye to eye on glass sizes and dimensions but its been working for us so far and its not worth the risk for us or the risk to our customers , by doing it the way we do we dont have to question alot of this science or push its limits,again its what we have come to practise and so far seems like a good guideline for us and has carried us this far. the industry is not regualted by code or anything like that so its always a companys name/insurance on the line and alot of what we do wasnt made up off the top of our head its common practises for alot of builders to ensure they dont cause anyone any damage or harm, and l;essons learned from those who have. one blowout in the game for a miscalculation and end of the line it is for us or any builder for that matter. at the end of the day we have our size restrictions that we stick to , while im sure it will differ from builder to builder our prices are low , quality is good and we have a great track record so i dont see the need to change the way we do things;) cheers denny |
is the cool little dogface puffer still in the tank?
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sure is.
but theres a sweet little stars and stripe puffer ill take pics. |
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Hog
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Updates??
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update is a had a really bad strain of ich(Cryptocaryon) breakout. the tank is now dropped down into hyposalinity. 1.010
the light are on low also due o use tap water to drop in down. |
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