My big tank

[Peterfc1]

Hi All

After to many years I am coming back to my love of keeping tropical fish but not in any old tank I am part way in building a 5,000 lt tank in my cellar in Portugal. I am at the stage of rendering the inside of the tank. I just need now to apply the finish coat of render with a very fine sand in the mix. After this I will apply a sealer and finally a top coat of a export resin. I have now after a month in searching found a supplier who can supply a product and assure me it is Fish safe.

I have enclosed a couple of pictures and the second is taken after the front has been built and a mass of rebar is fitted for strength.

The last picture is a reply I made to a company who can supply the finishing coat before I can add the water. On the picture is the email to the guy in charge his name is Matt.

Why a big tank because I can, the tank sits up against three walls but the tank is insulated from the walls. What do I intend to keep, if the price was right and I could get them in Porugal I would go for Silver Arowana. But as it took sex years before I found the first LFS I will probably go for 50 Platinum Angels like Joey Mullen has in one of his tanks.

Peter

 

[fozziebear]

Plants, and huge wood! and loads of floaters... this tank is going to be epic, good luck peter!

 

[Peterfc1]

I have access to plenty of Apple wood from a tree I cut down about a year ago. A friend who sells has about seven dead Bonzai trees that I would like to put in one corner.

A professor I know told me of a place to get rock that gives of good minerals. I met him in a fish shop and he showed me the Rock and the display tank really did look good.

 

[mikey11]

I have access to plenty of Apple wood from a tree I cut down about a year ago. A friend who sells has about seven dead Bonzai trees that I would like to put in one corner.

A professor I know told me of a place to get rock that gives of good minerals. I met him in a fish shop and he showed me the Rock and the display tank really did look good.

sounds great.....

i never understood why people pay outrageous prices at the pet stores for wood and rocks to put in their tanks.....if you look hard enough outside, you can find those items for free

 

[fozziebear]

Or landscaping companies are great mikey, instead of paying £12.99 per kilogram in your local fish shop, you can pay something like £1.80 to £3 per kg at a local landscaping supplier.