Marine Aquarium

[jakeroberts]

Hi my dad is wanting to start up a marine aquarium again. he has buiilt many tanks before but never for himself so he was just wondering what thickness glass he would need if he was going to build a 180Lx90Hx60W cm

Regards jake

 

[jakeroberts]

anyone?

 

[TribeOfShroom]

I would think it's the length and depth that will affect the glass. Now my 125L is 121cm long and that has 8mm thick glass. So I would suggest 10mm. Heavy, but safe. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone here will correct me. But I know one of my mates dad had a big discus tank, bigger than the proportions you're wanting and that was made from 10mm glass.

 

[andywg]

90cm is a tall tank. Your best bet is to talk to a tank manufacturer such as Windsor Aquatics.

You will be looking at something like 15 - 18 mm glass.

 

[jakeroberts]

yeah well my dad is pretty tall so he hates the shallow tanks also how many braces bar would he need

 

[1entra]

I'd say about 15mm thick glass just to be on the safe side even though 10-12mm should be sufficient! As its quite a long tank you should have a support brace all the way around the top of the tank with about 3 brace bars evenly spread out at every 45cm intervals Its gonna be one big tank!

PS. make the base approx 1.5-2 times thicker than the walls of the tank as its going to have to support all the weight of the water, LR and all livestock etc in the tank!

 

[jakeroberts]

yeah well we worked out that the tank is going to be 213 gallons now that is pretty big

 

[SkiFletch]

Like a 150g tall . If you Euro Brace (put a glass rim all over the top of the tank, prolly a 2-3" wide euro wold do it. Otherwise if you want to put cross supports, I'd suggest two of them with that much length

 

[Matty P]

Generally the deeper the tank is the thicker the glass needs to be.