I finally found a local source for silvers at $9.99 each (just off the yolk) and my glass guy looks like he's finally coming through (8'x39") so the 1000 gallon is only a little ways off now. The wife is sold on the idea, and actually supportive. The entire purpose of this thing is to try to rais a couple silvers from babies to ????. So, I've read a whole lot, and it seems that a few would do ok in a 1000 gallon. What do you guys think?
5 silvers in a 1000 gallon?
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it can work i have had as amany as 25 small silvers in one tank and three large ones together there was alittl chasing but they got along just fine especially if you raise them all together from babies there should not be a prob
sorry. Tank dims are: 9' long x 4' wide x 4' high but water height would be less than 4'. The glass is 8' long x 39" high x 1" thck laminated. So around 1000. The 4' width was important to me to give them good swimming area. I'll start to post pics soon. I have to move a current 55gal setup and build a new terrarium for a turtle then I can start the big one.
5 would be fine in that... acrylic at that size is about half the price of glass atleast around me it is plus acrylic will not distort the light passing through it and give you a better view of your fish especially when they are 4' away normal glass at that distance will appear to give you water a green tint to it unless you get low Fe (iron) glass also know as "starfire" glass
glass was free. BTW. He has 5 pieces. Here are the specs he gave me. I was going to take it all, but that will take up a LOT of space!
Hey Phil,
Here are the final sizes. As always allow enough tolerances in your system to allow at least 1/4" plus or minus on these sizes.
We have:
1@ 39-3/4" x 103-1/2"
3@ 39-1/2" x 107-7/16"
1@ 39-1/2" x 111-3/8"
The overall glass thickness is a nominal 1" inch.
Let me know which ones you want. Thanks, Don
Hey Phil,
Here are the final sizes. As always allow enough tolerances in your system to allow at least 1/4" plus or minus on these sizes.
We have:
1@ 39-3/4" x 103-1/2"
3@ 39-1/2" x 107-7/16"
1@ 39-1/2" x 111-3/8"
The overall glass thickness is a nominal 1" inch.
Let me know which ones you want. Thanks, Don
I would of kept all of them that stuff is expensive!!!!!!! I would of course choose the biggest one... 1" should be good on all of those sizes.....I wish I was closer I would hit ya up for one of those pieces
I've gotten him a lot of work in the past, so he owes me a little favor. The glass came from a bank awning, that the bank decided to use a fabric system in the end. They paid for the glass and told him to keep it. He has a ton of glass laying around, and he offered me several other sizes/thicknesses. I wanted big though.
The idea is to try to get some breeders...
The idea is to try to get some breeders...
Yeah I am hoping to get my silvers breeding eventually... but it will take a while i am sure... plus I am gonna seperate a pair when i see one forming...