I may add a garage to my house this time next year, pending approval from the city. I would like to entertain the possibilities of installing a massive concrete tank. It would be an L shaped tank about 6 feet top to bottom and 6 feet front to back and in the neighborhood of 26 feet long on the long side of the L. I have a drawing to explain kind of what Im thinking.
On the main viewing side I would use two 4X8 sheets of acrylic. All the windows would be held in place by a welded stainless steel frame sunk into the concrete. The windows would start two feet off the ground. The bottom two feet of the tank would be just a concrete tub, just in case I would have to lower the water level for maintenance on the windows. Also I would have a concrete wall at the corner of the L going from the front of the tank to the back of the tank. This wall would be 3 feet maybe four feet high so I could drop the water level to that point and then completely drain one side of the tank and still be able to keep fish in the other side of the tank. Or if I needed to keep two separate tanks going at the same time for some reason? This is why I wanted to start a discussion here on MFK. I want to talk about filtering options, concrete, drain locations, flow in the tank, lighting (most likely solar)
Let me know what you guys think? Link me to concrete tanks already built. Any personal experience with large tank filtration and so on.
On the main viewing side I would use two 4X8 sheets of acrylic. All the windows would be held in place by a welded stainless steel frame sunk into the concrete. The windows would start two feet off the ground. The bottom two feet of the tank would be just a concrete tub, just in case I would have to lower the water level for maintenance on the windows. Also I would have a concrete wall at the corner of the L going from the front of the tank to the back of the tank. This wall would be 3 feet maybe four feet high so I could drop the water level to that point and then completely drain one side of the tank and still be able to keep fish in the other side of the tank. Or if I needed to keep two separate tanks going at the same time for some reason? This is why I wanted to start a discussion here on MFK. I want to talk about filtering options, concrete, drain locations, flow in the tank, lighting (most likely solar)
Let me know what you guys think? Link me to concrete tanks already built. Any personal experience with large tank filtration and so on.