Making my 800 gal bigger.

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MonsterFishResc

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My name is Jonathan, otherwise known as TheFishGuy on a few other forums. I run monsterfishrescue.com and seem to be rescueing more and more fish. Recently my 800 that I built two and a half years ago started to leak. The tank has been drained and all the fish are living in a roughly 800 gallon pond. So since we have this saying that there's no problems just opportunities I've decided to take this opportunity to make the tank much larger. As it stands the tank measures 14' long 3' front to back and 30" tall. Since my incredibly understanding wife who lets me fill the house with fish tanks doesn't want the tank to take up more room I've decided to add onto the back of it. I'm going to take it a step furthur though and make the addition deeper. What I mean by deeper is by making it taller by going down.

Here's the future footprint:



So while the footprint will be larger indeed, it's going to be 26 or so inches deeper in the addition part. Here's a 3D to explain.



Then what it'll look like through the glass:



With the addition the total gallons will go from 785.45 to 1623.27 more than doubling gallonage. More importantly this will give options for more fish to go into the tank by creating two huge breaks in line of site.

Here's a link to the original build, and to the thread that was a continuation:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=103294&highlight=1122

The continuation:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=157482&highlight=wish+list+800

This is essentially part three :) :headbang2:
 

yikesjason

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I was looking through you build threads. Holy Smokes, almost 300 pages!!!
Obviously, I didn't read the whole thing, maybe if I find the cliffnotes.

But it is amazing. Congratulations on your success so far and good luck on the expansion.
 

Rbishop

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Very nice video.
 

vmprlrd

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you sir are my hero. You have inspired me to build my own tank (after im done with college and no longer owe money)
 
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