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Edwin;1667446; said:
looks great
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Thanks, it was a LOT of work, a LOT of trouble...
Took a lot out of me,,,I learned a lot, got some great advice from members of this forum...

I hope to make an even bigger pond outside next year and connect this pond to that one.

I have yet to see anyone really connect an indoor pond with an outdoor pond in the manner I have in mind....

Oh, and heres a new video of my pond
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fmzz84Njm2I

should help understand the context of how the pond sits in the room
 
Very interesting setup, thanks for sharing.....
 
I remember seeing this a while ago I think in 'DIY' glad you've got it finished and are enjoying it. Thanks for sharing it
 
labiatus55;1669620; said:
i would remove the trim from the tanks to make them seamless
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Thats an interesting idea...

I looked at ripping that stuff off once but there is another little problem that makes other work moot.
The problem is that the smaller tank (that sits on top) has just a hair smaller footprint than the lower larger tank.
This means that I had to make a "spacer" of plywood to go between the two tanks or else the top tank would sit rignt down onto the glass of the lower tank...

once I knew I had to make the spacer I gave up going for a good seamless look .

Now the way around this is still doable, and thats to use some 1/4" thick glass to be the spacer replaceing the plywood.

later this summer I will attempt to see about getting some glass cut to size, and at that point I will check to see how much work it is to take the trip off a aquarium.

It wont harm the tank will it, to have the trim off?
 
All depends on the quality of the tank whether it can handle having the trim off or not. Since tanks that size are pretty cheap why not have a go anyway.

Now are you going to explain the trick to this ever or what??
Do you just have a valve or something so that once you suck the air out initially you can close it and it becomes sealed? So you dont need all the big pumps other use.
And with the bubbles is the pump sucking air from inside the upsidedown tank and then pumping it back out so it just keeps recirculating the same air? It looks like there is an air line stuck to the roof of the tank. Only if that did work i would of thought if the pump turned off that would just be another point to suck air from and would empty the tank. Its def abit confusing.
 
chrisdef15;1671240; said:
And with the bubbles is the pump sucking air from inside the upsidedown tank and then pumping it back out so it just keeps recirculating the same air? .
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See, you are busy thinking of ways to do what I did, thats the fun of my pond.

Most people know a few things about aquariums but the idea of an upside down tank filled with water mostly is a puzzle to most people.
they dont understand how I got that to stay filled even if its upside down?

But then there is guys like you who understand the upside down part, but next find the addition of flowing air that never fills the tank a puzzle???

Thats the reason I made my pond...to give you something to think about...

a challenge that most ponds dont offer...
 
chrisdef15;1671240; said:
Do you just have a valve or something so that once you suck the air out initially you can close it and it becomes sealed? .
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That idea was what all the other guys who sell upside down tanks have come up with.

But my design has no need for such things...
My aquarium is upside down, but I didnt do anything else to it.

There were a bunch of "FISHFREEDOM" vidoes on YouTube a while back and that guy had a huge one-way valve on the top of his aquariums to suck out the air that would fill the top of the upside down tank from the airstone.

Most of his videos didnt even show the top of the tank very much because that would have given away the secret...LOL

You also notice in his videos there is a sound track of music to cover up the sound of the air pumps in the next room switching one and off to suck out all the air from time to time.

My design has none of that...
My design has no sound at all,,,,just the sound of bubbles ....
heck I would never have the guts to drill a hole in a glass aquarium!...LOL
 
chrisdef15;1671240; said:
that would just be another point to suck air from and would empty the tank. Its def abit confusing.
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When the FISHFREEDOM guy first put a bunch of his upside down tanks on YouTube he got tons of people asking "How you do the air?"

I looked at his videos and I saw two ways to do it.

the 1st way was the way he did it with a hole drilled in the top of the tank, a valve, and an air-sucking pump in the next room.

The other way was an idea that I came up with thats so simple that a child could have thought of it...In fact as I did think of it, I guess a child did!

I made a bunch of YouTube videos myself where I showed step-by-step how anyone can have tons of air flow in an upside down tank .

But I never really got many hits on that video, even when I linked this site to it a few times, so I took it down.

As for your quote above:
You are correct, if I had drilled even a small hole in the top of the tank to suck out the air it would sooner or later be a means for air to get sucked back in during a power outage...thats why I didnt drill any holes in the tank...

Becides, this upside down tank design is only something I wanted to try for a while, but down the line in the future I might have other plans for that upside down tank, so I didnt want it with drilled holes in it I would always have to explane later...

Thats why I didnt do anything to that tank at all, except fip it over...
 
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