Ultimate DIY Fish Room - Nearly 100K Gallons in Total!

[spiff44]

URGENT!!! I need URGENT help!! I’m currently working on building a levee around my neighborhood with the plan being on me water proofing the outside of my house so that all my windows are now aquariums. I’m an engineer on the side so I’ll be reinforcing my house from the insides. The plan is to build new sloping interior doors on the roof along side the docks that will be attached for our boats. I’m not worried about my neighbors homes at the moment.


Per my computations, once I close the levee dam at about the 40ft mark the creek behind my house will back up for 20 miles creating a lake about this size of Lake Ontario. I believe this should suffice for my aquarium house plan.


My current stock list is:


5 10ft Alligator gar- many smaller ones

2- Sturgeons

1 plesiosaur

4 nothosaurs


Does anyone have any suggestions on the levee building? Do I need to concrete reinforce or is a mud covered sand levee work at 50ft? Do you know where I can get cheap sand?


Does anybody know what to feed plensiosaurs and nothosaurs and how fast do they grow? My buddy is currently breeding them but he’s out of town at the moment, busy contracting himself out as a special ops technical specialist for the fight against ISIS.

I appreciate any suggestions!

Anybody?

 

[Oddball]

Feeding time for our bedroom headboard aquarium.



When we do a gravel wash the river rises a couple of inches.

I had to hire someone without fear to do the gravel washes.

 

[boldtogether]

URGENT!!! I need URGENT help!! I’m currently working on building a levee around my neighborhood with the plan being on me water proofing the outside of my house so that all my windows are now aquariums. I’m an engineer on the side so I’ll be reinforcing my house from the insides. The plan is to build new sloping interior doors on the roof along side the docks that will be attached for our boats. I’m not worried about my neighbors homes at the moment.


Per my computations, once I close the levee dam at about the 40ft mark the creek behind my house will back up for 20 miles creating a lake about this size of Lake Ontario. I believe this should suffice for my aquarium house plan.


My current stock list is:


5 10ft Alligator gar- many smaller ones

2- Sturgeons

1 plesiosaur

4 nothosaurs


Does anyone have any suggestions on the levee building? Do I need to concrete reinforce or is a mud covered sand levee work at 50ft? Do you know where I can get cheap sand?


Does anybody know what to feed plensiosaurs and nothosaurs and how fast do they grow? My buddy is currently breeding them but he’s out of town at the moment, busy contracting himself out as a special ops technical specialist for the fight against ISIS.

I appreciate any suggestions!

Anybody?

You must be rich because you are sooo cool! I am so jealous. My aquarium is only 50K gallons....but my friend has a plensiosaurus and has offered it too me when I build the planned 1M gallon vivarium I plan to build inside my abandoned gold mine that the previous owners left all that gold in.
He says to feed them is very easy....he just has PetSmart deliver 600lbs of feeders every other day and he suppliments the diet with the occasional giant sea turtle.
His friends all help him out for free too because they all think he is the coolest!

 

[boldtogether]

This a kind of an older picture I took of my grow-out tank a couple of years ago at my New Years eve party...it was group shot but my crappy phone took this dark picture...sorry about picture quality. I have since upgraded the lighting in the tank and moves some of the furniture out...mi entertain alot and needed the extra space...I will try and get some better pic later today after I help my friend feed his plensiosaurus...

 

[krichardson]

This thread is starting to smell like the southern end of north bound horse!

I'll definitely have to remember that one LMAO!

 

[pacu mom]

Got my belly laughs for the day.....You all are too funny!

 

[tomojsg]

Yea verily!

rightt!?~ old emotes were so much better! and had more variety too.

 

[tomojsg]

i want Oddball 's headboard aquarium! lol hahaha where is that picture from?

 

[Oddball]

i want Oddball 's headboard aquarium! lol hahaha where is that picture from?

It's a shopped scene pic from Jurassic World.

The other one is a shopped cel of Yosemite Sam. I replaced his 'shootin-irons' with the python gravel vac and bucket.

 

[tomojsg]

It's a shopped scene pic from Jurassic World.

The other one is a shopped cel of Yosemite Sam. I replaced his 'shootin-irons' with the python gravel vac and bucket.

i was wondering if it was from jurassic world but then ive havent seen a scene like in the movie
so i thought it was something else lol awesome picture none the less!