Cheaper?
- Thread starter richardhmc
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richardhmc;1253426; said:
Where did you get a quote like this. I'll drive a couple hundred miles and buy about 10 sheets for that price.
The cheapest I could find 1/2" was 1500 for 4 sheets. This would still be more than the cost you can get 1" for.
depends on your design...if your talking about the 600 then just some bracing around the top (2 ich wide all the way around with an extra corner brace and a center piece spanning the width) would all work well... if your building a Garage sized tank... your looking into concrete - rebar- or steel and some extremly thich sheets of plexi 
600 gal for 2200? buy it buy it buy it.
Yeah, 2 full sheets of acrylic will cost you less, but you'll use a hella lot more cement that you might think, plus bracing, tools, fixtures to assemble it, and so on. That 600 tank for sale is proven to hold water in the long term. 600 gallons would be a LOT to have on your floor. I built a 50gal sump with acrylic and had a seam split - that was bad enough - and I'm not exactly a duffer when it comes to building stuff. 2200 for a proven, assembled tank is a STEAL.
Yeah, 2 full sheets of acrylic will cost you less, but you'll use a hella lot more cement that you might think, plus bracing, tools, fixtures to assemble it, and so on. That 600 tank for sale is proven to hold water in the long term. 600 gallons would be a LOT to have on your floor. I built a 50gal sump with acrylic and had a seam split - that was bad enough - and I'm not exactly a duffer when it comes to building stuff. 2200 for a proven, assembled tank is a STEAL.
yeah ... by the guy selling it lol ... I've gotten 300 gallon tank for $300... now THATS A Steal hehehe 
basslover34;1261135; said:yeah ... by the guy selling it lol ... I've gotten 300 gallon tank for $300... now THATS A Steal hehehe
Yeah, that is a steal, you got lucky.
however the cost of building a tank, as well as the cost of anything going wrong with it grows exponentially with it's size. Try reading any of the threads of people having 500+ acrylic tanks blow apart and then come back to me and tell me you'd have peace of mind building one yourself. Don't get me wrong, I've got an undying DIY spirit, but I've been doing it long enough to know that you almost never save money for a similar quality product. I've also learned that when there is an issue of personal safety at hand (I.E. you're admiring your new tank - the first one you've built actually - when the front comes loose and kills you and your fish.) That you either overbuild it to the 9's, or buy one built by someone with experience.
