Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fish Tanks and Equipment => Topic started by: sgill on August 16, 2016, 10:18:40 PM
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hi i am going to have 1100 litre tank built for my rainbow fish so looking for as many ideas as possible for designing it
it will be run with 3 eheim 2180 thermo filters so a lot of pipe work we will be making and steel stand that can be insulated on sides and back as it is situated in my uninsulated barn looking forward to any suggestions
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Wow, that is going to be impressive. 8)
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Can't help you with suggestions for something that big, I'm afraid. However; I'd love to see a progress diary about the build with lots of photos.
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Eek 1100 litres that will be 1.3ton by the time its finished CHECK THE FLOOR LOADING CAPACITY !!!! :)
For something that big maybe a sump would be best because if you fill it with fish. The limitation will be the amount of bio capacity and oxygen sumps will give you the space for the media. The externals will have the flow needed but without somewhere to process the wast it wont be very effective
I bought a second hand marine tank and have just about finished a refurb job on the sump and pipework I think it will have in excess of 120litres of bio media, a uv steriliser and algae scrubber (only 500 litre tank)
Serious tank envy by the way
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the floor can definitely take the weight the stand will sit on 12 ajustable feet don't
know much about sump tanks but will do some research only want to do it once
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What types of rainbows do you have @sgill ? There are some really beauties out there.
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I have some Madagascan rainbows they are growing very fast and are well coloured and dwarfe rainbows nice blue tinge feed them many different foods each week soon to get several new shoals but not certain what types yet
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Beautiful fish :) My local MA stocks quite a few of the larger rainbows. I'm sure one day my tastes will change and I'll want larger fish, I'm still in the little fish phase atm. I hope you'll be able to post some piccies when you're done.
What sort of decor are you going with?
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large oak root weighs over 20 kilos will post some pics on how i managed to make it sink soon
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I shall look forward to that :)
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my new tank will be situated in my unheated brick barn so i had a heat calculation done for the new tank for an average ambient temperature of 5 deg c this will change as the weather gets colder and warmer so even with the floor top sides and back insulated it may need 1000 watts of power to keep 24 deg c 24 hours per day including pumps etc .so i installed a power monitor to the house and found out we should switch suppliers with the new rate the it will cost about 14 pounds per week to run a saving of about 10 per week during the colder spells.