Patio Garden Tank

[zennzzo]

As a kid growing up we always had a an aquarium set up in the house somewhere. I remember it to have a frame and hood made of chromed sheet metal...

Fast foward 40 years...

Last December I got my Ma back into fish keeping. We set up a 47g bow front and stocked it to the top with Orandas and other fancy goldfish.

Since I lost my Big Aro back in washington last Nov. in a 20 day power outage, I been longing for a Monster setup badly.

Well the Big tank bug bit my Ma...
After adding 6 Betta bowls to the stand of her Bowfront we figured we better find some room for a Bigger tank.

We decided to complete the garden I made for her with a Patio Garden tank.

We are starting with a 100g tank and are going to stock it with pond plants...

 

[basslover34]

Ugly dogfish you got in there

 

[AW7020]

Nice set up. Keep the posts coming.

 

[macantley]

so what are the dimensions of that tank? it looks like an odd size, really it looks like a 55 gallon tank only alittle taller, like a 67 gallon.....

looks interesting to say the least.

matthew

 

[zennzzo]

Ugly dogfish you got in there

LOL Thats my Ma's 10 year old "Latino Great Dane"
his name is Ti`mone...
pound for pound he's a killer...He has 3 mailman and numerous door to door salesman and a cleaning lady or two on his bite record...

I'm using "API's" aquarium safe cleaner and it isn't doing the trick. It works great on the outside of the other tank in the house.

I been wiping on this new glass tank for a half an hour and I still got a film on the inside.

Anybody got any tricks I don't know about?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

This is a sample of the garden we plan to extend around the base of the new tank...

 

[zennzzo]

so what are the dimensions of that tank? it looks like an odd size, really it looks like a 55 gallon tank only alittle taller, like a 67 gallon.....

looks interesting to say the least.

matthew

Yeah I liked the large frontal viewing area it has...
It is 60"L x 16"W x 24"H or 99.74gal
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/information/calculate.htm

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

nice, keep us updated! carpeted garden hu?!?!

 

[zennzzo]

nice, keep us updated! carpeted garden hu?!?!

Yeah, I know huh?
That's the 'ol
"California zero property-line back yard syndrone"
Most of the patio area is concrete slab so we just got some nice indoor outdoor carpet to hide the slab...

 

[zennzzo]

I just finished loading the pre-filter box...
It has large bio-balls and dual layer floss wrapped around a Pentair QuietOne 2200 500+gph pump and then the same filter-floss, coarse foam and fine foam under the grid...

 

[zennzzo]

I got a couple of hundred pounds of bagged pond rocks and to my suprise it was so filthy with mud I was bummed. So out to the driveway for some water fun...

I guess after 50 gallons of driveway runoff I got out the 1800 PSI LOVE

In minutes I had a couple of shovel-loads nice and clean...

...gotta love pressure washing substrate for speed and H2O savings.