Which is best...?

[cancanbaji]

My friend is planning to build a diy 400 to 600 gallon aquarium for his silver arowana and 3 tiger oscars... But he is confused between raised wooden pond using pond liner, or plywood tank or normal glass tank...
Which one will last long?

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[Abruskin]

It really depends on his budget if he needs it cheap than raised pond, if he wants to spend a little more time on it and spend some money that make the plywood tank, and if the sky is the limit for budgeting than just go all glass


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[Dahawkster15]

It really depends on his budget if he needs it cheap than raised pond, if he wants to spend a little more time on it and spend some money that make the plywood tank, and if the sky is the limit for budgeting than just go all glass


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+1. How long it lasts depends on how well you build it

 

[cancanbaji]

Ya we planned to built a wooden raised pond... But here we have pvc liner and epdm liners... Which is best? And thickness of the liner?

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[CJH]

Ya we planned to built a wooden raised pond... But here we have pvc liner and epdm liners... Which is best? And thickness of the liner?

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If you already have the liner then I would just use that. I believe there are plenty of discussions in the archives about which is best between EDPM and PVC liners.

People have added acrylic windows to liner sealed ponds in a few different ways so you could do that or possibly add on in the future. If you think you might add a window I would plan your framing accordingly.