Sounds like a cool idea just make sure that whatever is holding up the 30 will also be able to support the 15 and 30 together. You made need to add some extra support.
Stacked aquariums? would it work?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2JVm9l8iE
youtube was slow tonight and I actually had to get my wife to help upload this clip.
Now in this video you can see in a general way the idea i have in mind about stacking 2 fish tanks on top of each other.
I dont have any tempered glass on hand so i made a spacer out of 1/4" plywood so that I dont have anything pushing down on the glass of the lower tank.
It turns out the the top tank is a 1/2" smaller than the lower tank and so without some type of spacre I would have the top tank sitting right down onto the glass of the lower tank.
With this spacer inbetween the two tanks I have all the weight of the top tank only pushing on the metal frame of the lower tank.
As I look at the video i see that my support bars that keep the lower tank in position above the pond look a little small all of the sudden.
clearly I will need to get some bigger/thicker steel bars there to carry the extra weight of the 15gal tank.
HOWEVER, given a few changes I like the ovr-all look of this new design.
No one on earth has ever done something like this before , and I like the fact that it's unknown.
I may go with a solid Blue background for both tanks so that it all looks the same.
My wife thinks I should not have any background in the final design...But Im not sure about that idea yet???
anyway, I think it will work!
youtube was slow tonight and I actually had to get my wife to help upload this clip.
Now in this video you can see in a general way the idea i have in mind about stacking 2 fish tanks on top of each other.
I dont have any tempered glass on hand so i made a spacer out of 1/4" plywood so that I dont have anything pushing down on the glass of the lower tank.
It turns out the the top tank is a 1/2" smaller than the lower tank and so without some type of spacre I would have the top tank sitting right down onto the glass of the lower tank.
With this spacer inbetween the two tanks I have all the weight of the top tank only pushing on the metal frame of the lower tank.
As I look at the video i see that my support bars that keep the lower tank in position above the pond look a little small all of the sudden.
clearly I will need to get some bigger/thicker steel bars there to carry the extra weight of the 15gal tank.
HOWEVER, given a few changes I like the ovr-all look of this new design.
No one on earth has ever done something like this before , and I like the fact that it's unknown.
I may go with a solid Blue background for both tanks so that it all looks the same.
My wife thinks I should not have any background in the final design...But Im not sure about that idea yet???
anyway, I think it will work!
Oh yes,,,this was just a test to see what it might look like.camrsz;1576290; said:Looks good! Have you thought about painting the trim of both tanks black or atleast matching colors? Give it a "cleaner look".
If I could I would use real glass in place of the plywood, but I dont know if I will get to that anytime soon.
More than likly I will use this plywood.
I will more than likly paint the plywood black so it blends in and is unseen.
if you notice in the clip, I have a small strip of plywood across the middle .
I left that strip to help hold things in place.
I know it likely blocks some light, Im not sure if I will cut that stripo of plywood away or not.
I think it may help keeping things in place.
One of the flaws with my Aquaripond design I always hated was that the fish tank sat too low into the pond.
When I came up with this idea to flip an aquarium upside down and hold it over a Koi pond I always had the idea that I needed the aquarium to stick up about 3 feet out of the pond.
The problem was that my upside down tank sits up just too low for me.
It just didnt look like the idea i had in the back of my mind.
Now with the addition of a stacked Aquarium on top of the upside down tank I have reached the hight that I think it looks better at.
When you watch the clip try to overlook the fact that the lighting is bad and that the lack of a background on the top tank makes it look different than the lower one.
mostly look at the hight of the tanks as they sit stacked up.
To me the hight just looks better now....
I think that with the right background, the right lighting, and with the lower tank filled all the way to the top with water, it will look (more or less) like one united tall tank with just a line across the middle.
and thats kinda the look I aim for...
When I came up with this idea to flip an aquarium upside down and hold it over a Koi pond I always had the idea that I needed the aquarium to stick up about 3 feet out of the pond.
The problem was that my upside down tank sits up just too low for me.
It just didnt look like the idea i had in the back of my mind.
Now with the addition of a stacked Aquarium on top of the upside down tank I have reached the hight that I think it looks better at.
When you watch the clip try to overlook the fact that the lighting is bad and that the lack of a background on the top tank makes it look different than the lower one.
mostly look at the hight of the tanks as they sit stacked up.
To me the hight just looks better now....
I think that with the right background, the right lighting, and with the lower tank filled all the way to the top with water, it will look (more or less) like one united tall tank with just a line across the middle.
and thats kinda the look I aim for...
Ok,,heres where I have my own views that might not be in agreement with many on this forum.Bllib;1576376; said:What about adding some plexi on the side of the pond so that you can see into the bottom?
The truth is, that I have concidered the "View window" pond concept , and frankly I hate the look of them*.
It's just my own point view.
I know many here are very happy with their view window ponds, and thats good.
The only person that needs to be happy with any pond is the guy who built it and if he's happy then Im happy for him.
But speaking only for myself, (while I understand the great amount of work that some guys have went to to get a view window in their indoor pond), the truth is that I dont think the things are all that great as they are cracked up to be.
To me, the main problem I have with a "view window" pond is the same as if someone put their aquarium on the floor!?
The main problem with that is that just to see into the glass you almost have to kneel down onto the floor to look at the fish.
Aquariums are meant to be seen from the side, and ponds are meant to be seen from the top.
Thats just the way they are designed to work.
Putting a "view window" in the side of a pond liner down close to the floor?.....To me my neck hurts just thinking about it.
Thats why I came up with the "Aquaripond" idea too.
For the addition of a side-viewed aquarium to a top-viewed pond was the way I came up with that reaches the same goal as the view window ponds,(to see the fish from the side) without needing to bend down to see into it.
Also, I just do not trust my skills with tools enough to ever cut in a window into my pond liner.
I just think it would be something I would always worry about.
I may also believe a little bit, that the whole "view window in the side of a pond" concept is what people started to do to their ponds because no one had thought of the Upside down aqaurium idea yet.
I actually think the upside down idea is better and way more easy.
My attempt to do this is ugly i know, b ut my hope is that someone with some real cash will see something I have tried to do, and then he went out and did it the right way.
That I would like to see.
Remember my original idea was to have a glass aqaurium sticking up out of the middle of a room-size pond.
That aquarium would be about 6 feet tall. and would look like the "Monolith" seen in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey
I would love to see one of my forum brothers who owns a room size pond to set up such an aquarium monolith filled with fish.
(* Im also against the idea of bottom drains too, but thats another topic...LOL)
I definitely understand and you make some good points but if you want to see the fish why did you go with the pond??? I don't have a pond so I am just curious. What about adding instead of 1 30 you were to add a 55 to span the whole length of the pond?kumdoalan;1576428; said:Ok,,heres where I have my own views that might not be in agreement with many on this forum.
The truth is, that I have concidered the "View window" pond concept , and frankly I hate the look of them.
It's just my own point view.
I know many here are very happy with their view window ponds, and thats good.
The only person that needs to be happy with any pond is the guy who built it and if he's happy then Im happy for him.
But speaking only for myself, (while I understand the great amount of work that some guys have went to to get a view window in their indoor pond), the truth is that I dont think the things are all that great as they are cracked up to be.
To me, the problem I have with a view window piond is the same as if someone put their aquarium on the floor.
The main problem with that is that just to see into the glass you almost have to stoop down onto the floor to look at the fish.
Aquariums are meant to be seen from the side, and ponds from the top.
thats just the way they are designed to work.
Putting a view window down close to the floor?.....To me my neck hurts just thinking about it.
Thats why I came up with the "Aquaripond" idea too.
For the addition of a side-viewed aquarium to a top-viewed pond was the way I came up with that reaches the same goal as the view window ponds,(to see the fish from the side) without needing to bend down to see into it.
Also, I just do not trust my skills with tools enough to ever cut in a window into my pond liner.
I just think it would be something I would always worry about.
(Im also against the idea of bottom drains too, but thats another topic...LOL)
Unknown to me when I got them, it turns out that Koi get HUGE!Bllib;1576460; said:if you want to see the fish why did you go with the pond?
When I got my 2 Koi I didnt have a clue.
They were on sale, and just looked like fancy goldfish to me.
Time goes on...I work out of state for a year and dont pay any attention to the fish.
Then one day I walk by the 140gal aquarium and notice that my little fish that i got a while ago on sale at walmart are now 12 inches long??!!!
I already own a 140 gal aquarium.
more than likely this aquarium is the biggest one in my part of the State, (North dakota), so I knew I had to switch to a pond of some type.
a few 2x4s, a few sheets of plywood and I had a nice little pond.
However, as i sat back and looked at my finished pond, it just looked like it needed something else..
I looked on this forum and others at all the different ways to dress up an indoor pond, and to tell the truth, i hated em all.
Nothing looked like it was meant to be an indoor pond.
I felt that way too many pond owners try to make their indoor ponds look like fake outdoor ponds.
I wanted my indoor pond to look like thats what it was always designed to be.
That led me to concider the upside down aquarium idea.
I like the upside down aquarium idea because it works easy with an indoor pond, and could not really work at all with an outdoor pond.
So it fits into my personal views of what an indoor pond sould be all about.
Another thing the upside down aquarium idea gives an indoor pond is it gives us the chance to see the fish from the side without kneeling down on the floor to look at a view window cut into a pond liner.
I can be standing or sitting in my easychair watching TV when up pops a Koi to check out whats going on in the room.
It's cool to know that the fish have the freedom now to explor, to check out what the cats are doing...to check for floating food...or just to see what the top of the pond looks like.
Thats perhaops one of the most overlooked things with pond owners, making sure that the fish have new things to do...new things to look at ...
(My fish actually do come up into the aquarium when I watch Tv , they seem to like FOX for some unknow reason...)
I got my both 30gal aquarium and the smaller 15 gal for free from a co-worker...Bllib;1576460; said:What about adding instead of 1 30 you were to add a 55 to span the whole length of the pond?
Hard to beat free...
