glass pond wall?
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The best thing you can do is look for someone in town or nearby that designs and builds commercial ponds. I've hooked up with a company to look at getting a 3000g bala shark pond created.
They can do glass for it, but I'm not allowed near it. They will send engineers to mount it and make sure the enclosure itself is built to spec before they even touch anything.
You could get some really good pointers from them, lay out what you want to do and they can tell you if it's possible or not.
Around here, they will design my entire pond from the ground up and it'll only cost about $65 per hour to make the plans.
They can do glass for it, but I'm not allowed near it. They will send engineers to mount it and make sure the enclosure itself is built to spec before they even touch anything.
You could get some really good pointers from them, lay out what you want to do and they can tell you if it's possible or not.
Around here, they will design my entire pond from the ground up and it'll only cost about $65 per hour to make the plans.
Acrylic. There are reasons why nearly every large tank is constructed with acrylic.
1 - Clarity. Even 1/2" float glass has a noticable green tinge. Ugh. That would be enough for me right there.
2 - Strength. Acrylic can stop a baseball, earthquake, stray gunfire, etc.
3 - Flexibility. This is very important for your application. Acrylic can stretch as needed whereas glass will just break.
4 - Easy to work with. You can't work with thick glass panels without specialized equipment and a lot of moving power. How are you going to mount a piece of glass that weighs as much as a car engine?
1 - Clarity. Even 1/2" float glass has a noticable green tinge. Ugh. That would be enough for me right there.
2 - Strength. Acrylic can stop a baseball, earthquake, stray gunfire, etc.
3 - Flexibility. This is very important for your application. Acrylic can stretch as needed whereas glass will just break.
4 - Easy to work with. You can't work with thick glass panels without specialized equipment and a lot of moving power. How are you going to mount a piece of glass that weighs as much as a car engine?
you can now get low FE (iron) glass that is clear and if your pond is more than four foot front to back your water will look green from reg glass go low FE and glass will hold awesome look at arapaimag's big tank and he has had it up and running for like ten years
