amazing setup. do you have any pics while it was being constructed? i would love to see the process of setting up the inside of the tank
1700 Gallon Stingray River
- Thread starter Energy
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Here are some construction photo's. The tank was built, established and then pulled apart about 4 months later and redone. The original design did not have any area beneath the land section for the fish. Now nearly 100% of the tank bottom is available to the fish and stingrays.
This is the main waterfall early in it's development.
Early design of the front river section. Back then all the land was elevated to keep the substrate out of the water column but not accessible beneath.
The early theme was going to have a fallen log as a focal point.
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This shot shows the land area after the substrate was added.
And then I did the redesign to elevate the land and make all of the bottom accesible. First I gutted it.
Then I built a platform to hold the land area above the water column.
Test fitted it into the tank and covered with permeable landscape fabric to keep any substrate out of the water column.
Added the hardscaping.
Then did some of the early plantings
Ta-da- An elevated land section with plenty of caves and hiding areas for both the Poison dart frogs on top and fish beneath! Both sides of the tank were done in a similiar fashion on separate occasions as the stingrays and all the fish were still living inside the system during the reconstruction.
This is the main waterfall early in it's development.
Early design of the front river section. Back then all the land was elevated to keep the substrate out of the water column but not accessible beneath.
The early theme was going to have a fallen log as a focal point.
This shot shows the land area after the substrate was added.
And then I did the redesign to elevate the land and make all of the bottom accesible. First I gutted it.
Then I built a platform to hold the land area above the water column.
Test fitted it into the tank and covered with permeable landscape fabric to keep any substrate out of the water column.
Added the hardscaping.
Then did some of the early plantings
Ta-da- An elevated land section with plenty of caves and hiding areas for both the Poison dart frogs on top and fish beneath! Both sides of the tank were done in a similiar fashion on separate occasions as the stingrays and all the fish were still living inside the system during the reconstruction.
I like how you even created caves out of the eggcrate material so that the frogs would have a place to hide! Very cool. It would have been awesome to be able to witness this firsthand or even lend a helping hand.
Hopefully I'll get to try something similar to this on my own in the future.
Hopefully I'll get to try something similar to this on my own in the future.
This exceeds perfection, sir! My dream tank is to do something like this down my dream home's main hallway, filled with Goliath African Tiger fish 
Dunno how safe it would be for the frogs, but man I am envious! Poison Dart frogs are amazing to look at. Great work! You're hired for when the time comes to do my place in 20 years 
Dunno how safe it would be for the frogs, but man I am envious! Poison Dart frogs are amazing to look at. Great work! You're hired for when the time comes to do my place in 20 years 
I am wondering how do you do water change with this huge tank?? damn...AAAAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++++
