How much would you pay for a 10,000 tank?

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shipping would be a great adventure and what if i get it and there is some flaw thats not really a simple ship it back and ill send another. Hey but look at the money the buyer could make neighborhood aquarium 2 for kids 5 for adults all it would take is some time. How awesome would that be to show up the neighbors.

Yeah Bill we just finished the new in ground pool cost a pretty penny but we can handle the loss with the new raise. Wife said we could get one of those volleyball nets should be nice. So what are you up to today? Well Dick were just waiting on our new 20,000 gallon fish tank to be delivered. Wife said we should get a small submersible and some scuba gear should be nice.
 
I wouldn't be interested. In the north you would have to heat it. I would have a 10K gallon block of ice. Much cheaper to go to the local rental place, get a trackhoe for a day and spend a couple hours digging out 10K gallons worth of dirt, and I get to drive a trackhoe for a day.
 
tunerX;1275490; said:
I wouldn't be interested. In the north you would have to heat it. I would have a 10K gallon block of ice. Much cheaper to go to the local rental place, get a trackhoe for a day and spend a couple hours digging out 10K gallons worth of dirt, and I get to drive a trackhoe for a day.
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How would this solve your temperature problem? And now you have a tank underground, and not on ground level which most people would want. Your method would also be much more costly and only allow viewing from above, not the side. If you live in the north and need it heated, I would install a capable heater for an additional 1,000.
 
This is a great idea and I like it. Beats having to build your own tank when you can have one already built.

Please toss around more ideas!

Mike
 
fatguyenalilcoat;1275996; said:
How would this solve your temperature problem? And now you have a tank underground, and not on ground level which most people would want. Your method would also be much more costly and only allow viewing from above, not the side. If you live in the north and need it heated, I would install a capable heater for an additional 1,000.
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It would solve the temp problem because it wouldn't freeze solid if it was under the frost line. The only thing you could keep in there, up here, is coldwater fish.

Also, the tank can only sit outside. It can get to 50 below with windchill up here and -22 without. I would be spending thousands a month just to keep it heated.

You cannot put it in your house unless you have 9-10 foot ceilings. Even, then you have to bust out a wall to get it in there. which would cost more to tear apart, rebuild, and finish then it would be to build it inside to a custom spec anyway.

It wouldn't be more costly than digging 10K gallons worth of dirt. Trackhoes are cheap for a daily rental, and why only dig 10K. Up here If I dig deep enough the pond will fill itself. I may only get to see fish from the top but I keep fish that like to come to the top in it. I keep the monsters inside where I can grow them and put them in the pond when they are too big for the tank. Then I can start all over again.

Your idea would be more of a southern and possibly western thing. The place where you could possibly get customers would be Lousianna, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and California.
 
You actually can insulate a large tank to be heated and see a return on your money in your power bill. I have a 350 gal pond that was inside a garage heated with 1000 w of heat. My power bill was 150 dollars per month. I made an insulated box to go around the pond along with a lid and put it outside. Here in montana as well it can get to -40 or 50 during the winter with windchill sometimes -60, but even last winter when we got -40 windchill and the snow was pilled up on top of my pond and all around it the temp stayed at 80 f, and the heater barely had to run at all. I made a well fitted lid and a insulated box, I great stuffed any cracks and siliconed every crevice possible, I also stuffed attic batting all around the inside of the box. My power bill dropped 30 dollars a month. Just saying it's not impossible to insulate something and it hold heat well even in the coldest of climates. Just depends on how well you insulated it. Cost of the finished product if it was going outside would definitely be greater in a northern climate versus a southern one, but it could be done.
 
Now that is pretty cool. But he needed a building to keep it in.

If the 10K container were to be buried next to my house so I could look at it from the basement that would work, but now it needs to be waterproofed on the outside as well. It would need an insulated shed or florida room built on top.

I don't know if that would fit into the local building codes though.
 
btw am browsing thro this and other similar threads as am thinking of doing either a larger outside pond or a large fish room. Will decide later. area available to use is 24' by 16' wide. so probably two 20 foot containers size ??. Budget been asking around the area in Msia cost about 5K MYR that is about 1.5K USD. will have to get the local supplier to do all the cutting and necessary fittings. still thinking.
 
Well I guess you can just build an addition around the tank after delivery, well insulated break out the wall on your home in the tank area.
 
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