HOW TO: Build A Large Aquarium 5/6

Do you have a book on how to build a tank. I'm looking to build a 600 or 800 gallon aquarium

Where do you get your filter fleece?

really nice bro. i like it

How is silicone that strong

So there is nothing but silicone holding this monstrocity together?

crazy looking back after the 2000gal aquarium and the graphics and what you look like lol

Wouldn't a fluidized bed filter work well for marine particularly fish only? I currently run wet dry and live them. Looking to do a 650 gallon diy build. I know Steve Bashea makes a bioreactor with a fluidized media.

Cool

A little getto lol that's funny anyway good job Joe

awesome series dude thanx much. your instruction will come in very handy.

Hi joey I'm from the UK and was interested to know what air pump did you us for the k1 and also to save me drilling a hole in the bottom of my aquarium is it possible to have a pump to pump the water out and a pump to pump it back in from the heater barrel? Many thanks and keep up the great work.

Hey joey, I would like to make this for a 150 gallon cichlid tank. Would rubbermaid brute trash cans work? I think they're 32 gallon cans. Also, do you think the water coming in directly across from the middle tube let's the water travel to the heating barrel before it contacts much of the k1?

Where did you get the barrels and the k1?

Hey Joey I'm thinking of building a similar aquarium out of two old tanks I have, difference being is that my glass pieces will be 48X21 since two are coming from an old 55 and two others are coming from an old 75.  My question is instead of doing the glass bracing around the top couldn't I use 2×4 or 2×2 wood like you did on the bottom and forget about the glass?  I'd have to trim it off later but wouldn't that provide the same amount of structural support for the upper part of the tank as the glass bracing?

would you really need to do that many water changes with such a good filter system?
also where does that filter media come from is that what it's made for or is it adopted from some other application?

Thanks for all your advice! I plan to replicate this system on about a 1/5 scale for my 115 gallon build in process. (125 gallon, 1/2" thick with 5/8" thick bottom, 6' x 2' x 18" cut down to 5'5" to remove damaged edges of the front and back for $30 by ABC glass in Oregon City) I have some 15 gallon blue barrels used for liquid malt extract from my local homebrew shop. I will likely cut them down to the 13 gallon mark. How much K1 should I use? I don't know how many fish I will have, but some Bala Sharks, Kissing Gourami, Pleco, Jack Dempseys, etc. What kind of flow rate? How much air? I am below your level of understanding with the calculations.  Thanks again!

You are awesome!! I'm building that same tank

im looking for a video on how you built your 55 gallon barrels filter, Do you have one or is that something i gotta buy the book for?

I would suggest having a valve at any tri-union. I noted that your pump inlet tri-union doesn't have a ball valve, which means the heating barrel would need to be drained to remove/service the pump.

That notwithstanding, excellent build.

Going to be following you video's to do my 400 gallon build. Only question is what pump do you recommend? I don't need the cheapest but defiantly don't want to completely drain the bank considering I am doing DIY build to save money.

wow..amazing series!!..well done man!!…minus the "first and foremost" every 30 secs…;-)

If the overflow to filter is gravity fed, does that mean your filters are located lower than your tank because it doesn't seem so in the view. It's strange to me as it seems the water flows upward somehow after it passes through the wall.

Where is the best place to order pre-cut acrylic to build a 20-30 gallon upside down tank? Also, should I use acrylic or plexiglass? 

3d background is cool.