Fish's new tank project

[Fish]

Dave,
I'd love to have a stream/pond in my backyard... maybe when my kids are a little older.
I think that everything with the tank is finalized, just waiting to hear back from the good folks at Gold Aquariums. My three previous tanks were built by Bow Valley and I have to say that I am impressed with how good Albert has been to work with - I'm optomistic that the build quality will be very good too.

- Chad

[Fish]

Well the tank has been paid for and the building has begun. This is the nerve wracking part of the process because it is completely out of my control for a while. I'll keep you updated.

- Chad

[woodcarver]

Good luck !!

[Fish]

Here is a photo of the magnets I am using:








And I also put an outline of screws around the base to stop the screens from being pushed inwards:









Today would have been a great day to paint the wood, but it was so cold that I didn't want to leave the house!


- Chad

[Fish]

Well, I re-thought things and decided that having my return plumbing go right through the back wall posed a risk of overflowing my sump. Even with a syphon break, the water pressure in the tank would still drain a fair amount of water.

Because my return plumbing is now going up and over the back wall, there wasn't really a benefit to closing it all in the way that I had originally planned.

Here are some sketches I did:

















I plan on having black acrylic on the back wall to prevent the overflow and plumbing from being visible.



- Chad

[Fish]

Well, I have been playing around more and learning more features of the program and came up with this:

















All of those pictures are to-scale of the actual measurements.


- Chad

[Delphinus]

These sketches are still using MSPaint??? Or have you started using something else?