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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: rec.pets,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Marine Equiptment
Summary: glass thickness
Message-ID: <2150@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 88 04:57:42 GMT
References: <498@acheron.UUCP> <1124@inuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1124@inuxd.UUCP> jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) writes:
>> local pet store.  It has sections on fresh and salt aquariums, as well as 
>> artificial ponds(!) and biofilters for same.  Would you believe that one guy 
>> was asking for advice on building a 10'x4'x4' salt water aquarium?  That's
>> five TONS of water!  Hope he lives in the basement ... 'cause he will once
>> he fills that tank.
>
>I'm thinking of such a tank...but I want to build it as a wall.
>The Florida room on the first floor (the house is on a slab and
>the slab is on coral limestone) would be a great place for a
>whole-wall aqaurium.  Since I am only a few feet from clean sea
>water, I would just keep a fresh supply of ocean pumping in and
>the old stuff pumping out, so I wouldn't have to worry much about
>biofilters and such, I don't think.  I sure would be in trouble
>if the pump went out, though.  
>
>How big do you all think it could be?  At what point is the glass
>going to have to be too thick?


I knew a guy in Hamilton, Ontario, who had a "room tank".

His name was Stan Winwood, and he must be about 70 ish by now. He
had a small home in a quit neighborhood; you walked in and POW
there it was, 8' tall, 8' wide, and god knows how deep.

He also had a few 100 gal tanks scattered around his house, all
set into the wall.

You need better advice than can be had from a bunch of programmers
for your glass thickness question, but it will probably be
pricey.

But worth it.

Can I come and see it when it's done ?


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