Thinking about moving 300 gallon stock tank indoors

[aquaculture]

What should I know about before hand from your experiences both positive and negative,

The house I am going to put it in has a solid cement slab under the
carpeting so it should be supported fine.

Thankyou.

 

[mike huntley]

do it, it'll definitely be supported properly. no worries.

 

[Toby_H]

Ya mean like this?

It will add quite a bit of heat and humidity to a room which you will likely want to acconut for. I like it warm anyway so I left the air temp in the upper 70s to minimize heat exchange and evaporation. I ran a dehumidifier to reduce the potential for mold & mildew...

Structurally speaking a concrete slab can easily support this kind of weight...

 

[aquaculture]

awesome nc_nutcase, whats your filtration?

 

[Reptilesfishbirdsmammals]

whoa cool tanks and etc but whats your filtration cause there pretty green..

 

[aquaculture]

also nc_nutcase whats would you suggest for wattage ona heater for the 300 gallon stock tank to keep it at 78f with lowest temp in room being 63f.

 

[Toby_H]

I've battled cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) the whole time I was in Charlotte... the tap water was ripe for it...

On the 300 gal stock tank I used a BioForce 2000 Pressurized Pond Filter with a Mag 18 pump pushing water through it. It was basically a FX5 on steriods...

I used anywhere between 1~3 250~300W heaters depending on where/how I had the system set up. A couple of times I had it in a fish room where the ait temp was maintained around 80*F and then it needed little to no heat... other ties, such as in that pic, it was placed openly in my home and then I used the max heat mentioned...

The plasic walls held heat a bit better than a glass aquarium but the uncovered massive rippled surface area allowed a ton of heat loss.

 

[KAWAMIKIE]

To cut down down on the heat loss and humidity you could also cover the stock tank with some styrofoam insulation board and put a piece of plexi in it so it still gets light.

 

[aquaculture]

adding styroafoam board with viewing slashlight window to the list along with 250watt s woth of heater(s) and the dehumidifier. Ill diy the filter

Anything else I could need ?



Thanks so much everyone !

 

[Toby_H]

^^ I priced a 6' round piece of acrylic once to use as a top... My guess is if you can afford that top you would be buying a prettier tank...

So I put my DIY mind to work and pieced together a top with things I had around the house (plywood and glass). That's when I realized how much glass glared. Think about all the pics we see posted when the photographer uses the flass looking right at the tank.

Feel free to try whatever you like, but I had that thing set up for almost 7 years and I tried a lot of different ideas. If you come up with new ideas be sure to post them as I may set mine back up. It's currently being used as a pond in a friends backyard.