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Hopefully I am posting this in the right forum. I have been doing a lot of research on tanks as I am about to do an upgrade to my 210, which is 72" L, 24" D and 25" H (FOWLR tank). Unfortunately I cannot go longer, which would require some major reconstruction of my kitchen / family room area. I have many larger angels, triggers and tangs and really think the 210 is getting to be a bit on the smaller side. There is also other reasons that when I purchased the tank from a friend I didn’t think it through the that over flows are in the back (not corners) and the tank sits between two rooms so the one side looks bad. I will take some pics tomorrow to post here…
Because of the 72” limitation of the length of the tank. I was considering doing a 72” L by 34” or 36” D, still 25” H. This would increase my tank to about 280 G. The overflow I was going to choose is island style…. This way no obstruction on either side for one.
I would like to get some opinions on doing a 36” D tank…. Any advantages, disadvantage? I want to keep 25” H mainly due to being able to do aquascaping…. I want to really think this through and get some ideas from ones who have done custom tanks as it is very expensive and want to think everything through. I also don’t need to worry about under tank sump, equipment. All of my equipment and sump is in the basement.
The one decision I did make is to do a low iron, glass aquarium vs. acrylic. Acrylic is good because of the weight and clearer but scratches very easily - I figure that going with low iron glass would probably be comparable to the acrylic.
I looked at two companies so far, glass cages (https://build.glasscages.com/) and https://www.fishtanksdirect.com/. Anyone have experience using either of these companies, or suggest other ones?
Thanks!
Because of the 72” limitation of the length of the tank. I was considering doing a 72” L by 34” or 36” D, still 25” H. This would increase my tank to about 280 G. The overflow I was going to choose is island style…. This way no obstruction on either side for one.
I would like to get some opinions on doing a 36” D tank…. Any advantages, disadvantage? I want to keep 25” H mainly due to being able to do aquascaping…. I want to really think this through and get some ideas from ones who have done custom tanks as it is very expensive and want to think everything through. I also don’t need to worry about under tank sump, equipment. All of my equipment and sump is in the basement.
The one decision I did make is to do a low iron, glass aquarium vs. acrylic. Acrylic is good because of the weight and clearer but scratches very easily - I figure that going with low iron glass would probably be comparable to the acrylic.
I looked at two companies so far, glass cages (https://build.glasscages.com/) and https://www.fishtanksdirect.com/. Anyone have experience using either of these companies, or suggest other ones?
Thanks!