Fish Penthouse update

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Shastacola;2977634; said:
My husband and I did something kinda like that. We put our ten gal. in our 100 gal. It was interesting and the needles stayed in it most of the time. My old man thought that it lookedkinda hooptie so we have since taken it down. I was incredablly simple but very heavy when lifting out of the water.
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how did the tank handle the pressure? I have an extra 10 gallon and a 400 gallon pond :) :naughty:
 
Deleted reply since I completely misunderstood the concept above until I looked a little closer. Oops.
 
wow_it_esploded;2986718; said:
how did the tank handle the pressure? I have an extra 10 gallon and a 400 gallon pond :) :naughty:
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oh it was up for about month and never did we fear it wouldn't hold up. It worked great. He didn't like the way the pipe looked and clear pipe is hard to come by and quite pricey. When we do get our hands an some we are planning a water bridge. Yippie!!!!!:headbang2
 
from my understanding the pressure in the tank shouldnt change. even though it looks like you added a foot of water its only adding weight to the tank but not pressure. its a vacuum that is actually holding the water in the "penthouse" portion of the tank. these tanks can handle the weight as many of us know who have added sometimes hundereds of pounds of decorations to our tanks.
 
The pressure does not change but the tank is forced to hold water how it was not designed to. When a tank is filled normally, it has weigh pushing out, so they are manufactured not to explode. When the tank is like this, it has weight pulling in so if something went wrong, it would implode. The tank is not designed to be pulled in, but pushed out.

I am going to try this with the extra PVC from my filter.
 
The tank would experiance more pressure (downward) at the footprint of the rise. The bottom of the tank is "holding" a column of water that is greater then the original when the tank does not have the penthous installed. I believe the horizontal pressure would increase slighly too but I'm not sure it its alot.
 
Similar theory with the fish bridge between 2 tanks, interesting
 
:DYou wouldn't believe how incredibly heavy it was when lifting it up. My husbands arms were just shaking and i couldn't get the legs under fast enough. I can see how implosion might be a possibility. I was kinda scared something bad might happen but it worked fine for us. The water bridge is what really has us excited though. I can't wait.:D
 
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