I just don't understand why ATO Reservoirs are so dang expensive. Seriously??!!!! All they are, essentially, is a small acrylic aquarium. You can go to any major bigbox store and buy an acrylic 5 gallon aquarium for under $40. But you slap that some box with a label that says "ATO Reservoir" and all of a sudden they expect you to pay 3 times as much. Just look on BRS or any other online aquarium supply store and you can't find a 5 gallon ATO Reservoir for less than $100.
Can somebody please tell me why this is? I have my own hunch: People (like me) don't like the "look" of a 5-gallon bucket next to or under their DT, so they are willing to fork over the $$ just for esthetics. If I knew how to glue (or weld, actually) acrylic together reliably I would just make my own. Does anyone have any solutions for a cheap ATO reservoir, that isn't a 5 gallon bucket. I actually have a couple of Marineland 5 g Portrait tanks, but the are AIO and have a rear chamber, plus they don't "look" like an ATO reservoir.
Okay...vent session over.
Can somebody please tell me why this is? I have my own hunch: People (like me) don't like the "look" of a 5-gallon bucket next to or under their DT, so they are willing to fork over the $$ just for esthetics. If I knew how to glue (or weld, actually) acrylic together reliably I would just make my own. Does anyone have any solutions for a cheap ATO reservoir, that isn't a 5 gallon bucket. I actually have a couple of Marineland 5 g Portrait tanks, but the are AIO and have a rear chamber, plus they don't "look" like an ATO reservoir.
Okay...vent session over.