Stacked aquariums? would it work?

[kumdoalan]

You framed a pond, Im sure with a hammer .

My damn hammer is what got me into my trouble....LOL
Why i didnt use all wood screws is unknown but that was a HUGE error on my part.

When I made my plans to move the pond out of the basement alone I had always the idea of stripping all the plywood off the frame and just walking right up the stairs with the 2x4 frame.

I was stunned that I had been so foolish as to use monster nails???
I tried to yank out a few but I hurt the wood , and I have it nailed about every 1&1/2 inch, so pulling the nails just would not work.

Next time......next time , ALL SCREWS!.....

And if you guys ever see another topic like mine about building an above-ground or an indoor pond, make sure you jump into the conversation and tell the guy to toss his hammer into the woods!

Wood screws are the Only way to go.
they are better holding than nails, and you just flip a switch on the side of the drill and back them out.

 

[cassharper]

How about getting some acrylic and fashioning a "viewing" box to replace the upside down aquarium (I know, not as cool of a name; but it's an option). It doesn't quite beat free, but you could do it fairly cheap.

 

[kumdoalan]

How about getting some acrylic and fashioning a "viewing" box to replace the upside down aquarium (I know, not as cool of a name; but it's an option). .

my hope is that someone will take my ideas and build on them, adding such things as you suggest.

My guess is that there are a lot of other good ways to get a side view of your pond fish without needing to cut into the liner.

 

[kumdoalan]

How about getting some acrylic .

I dont have the cash right now to experiment, however I believe in the design of putting upside down tanks in indoor ponds.
I like the look of the upside down tank and what it allows for the fish to do thats new an interesting.

But like I said, Im doing this design work on the cheap
Heres how I worked out the bugs of my system in small-scale before i went full-size
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKgJQbsYUo

 

[invisyblegypsey]

I have an idea...

Now dont laugh, but I have an idea for stacking one aquarium right on top of another.

Heres how it might be -
I am about to start to move my indoor pond upstairs for the summer.
Inside my pond I have an upside down aquarium that hangs by some squar rods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaPA0oeY9s

Now as clearly weird as that looks already, (and I admit it's weird) I wanted to go even more weird and stack a 15 gal aquarium right on top of the other aquarium!

Have you ever heard of anyone doing anything like this before?
Any idea what it would look like?

I was thinking that the top stacked aquarium would not have any gravel so that the top light would be able to shine down into the lower aquarium and then on down into the pond below....

very cool great vidio

 

[kumdoalan]

Im right in the middle of the "Big Move" where I dragged kicking and screaming the pond out of the basement and up into the porch.
I will be adding videos to this topic as things go along just to have some interesting way to keep track myself of how much work this has turned out to be.

Not sure I will be doing all that much work on the pond today however, it's about -20 something below zero out there right now and so it sorta kills the mood.

Over the next few days I have to:
1 - Drill holes in the wall so that the filter can be hidden in another room
2 - Position the barrel filter in the other room and somehow mount it to the wall at the correct hight.
3 - run the plastic pipes from the pond to the filter and back
4 - place the liner back inside the pond plywood box
5 - replace the top wood trim along the top edge of the pond
6 - add more wood trim sections along the pond lower edges to dress it up a bit more
7 - stain any unstained parts of the plywood box that now show
8 -build a new steel support brace to hold up the added weight of two filled aquariums on top of each other.
9 - replace the upside down aquarium with the top aquarium on top of it and run power to the light boxes on top.
and,
10 - sit around and hope it gets warm soon cuz the pond is ready to add water!

 

[kumdoalan]

Over the next few days I have to:
1 - Drill holes in the wall so that the filter can be hidden in another room....
2 - Position the barrel filter in the other room and somehow mount it to the wall at the correct hight.....
3 - run the plastic pipes from the pond to the filter and back
4 - place the liner back inside the pond plywood box
5 - replace the top wood trim along the top edge of the pond
6 - add more wood trim sections along the pond lower edges to dress it up a bit more
7 - stain any unstained parts of the plywood box that now show
8 -build a new steel support brace to hold up the added weight of two filled aquariums on top of each other.
9 - replace the upside down aquarium with the top aquarium on top of it and run power to the light boxes on top.
and,
10 - sit around and hope it gets warm soon cuz the pond is ready to add water!

It was a bit warmer today and so I got to work on running lines from my filter in one room to my pond in the other room.
1 - DONE!
2 - DONE
3 - DONE
4 - DONE
5 - DONE
6 - DONE
7 - DONE
8 - DONE
9 - IN WORK
10 - WITH LUCK SOON
No photos yet, the rooms are a pig pen of saw dust, cut pipe sections and tools....lots and lots of tools.
This job took about every tool I own to finish and then some.
It's hard to find a clean path to walk in the rooms right now there is so much pond-connected junk in the way.

But with any luck at all, I will have some photos soon.