Sorry this isn't necessarily related to fish but I know you guys build a lot of your own tanks using acrylic. I want to build a bubble wall like this http://www.oceanariums.com/shriners.jpg or this http://www.oceanariums.com/ymca.jpg. I think it would look pretty cool having a small one of each side of my built in wall tank. Are there any calculators for how think the acrylic would need to be since it is only a couple inches deep. there are also vertical chambers running the entire height of the piece. I think these things look really cool but are ridiculously expensive for an acrylic box an air pump and a light. I was also thinking about making a water column or tube since you can buy hollow acrylic tubes but again I'm not sure of the thickness needed for a given height and diameter. Has anybody built one or know of a thickness calculator other than cryo's since they don't let you input a thickness. Also any tips for making a wall unit to have the chambers in it as well?
Acrylic Thickness for a Bubble wall
- Thread starter fatguyenalilcoat
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well what u might want to consider, since ur gunna have an inwall tank. is have the tank built with think acrylic, but then attach to it really thin acrylic cause notmuch water will be in it, and for the serparting of the colums even thinner acrylic