I want a floor to ceiling ( 7"6' ) aquarium fitting in the middle of an opening and wondered if anyone knows someone who does them.
I want them to set it up to, so any ideas will be welcome.

Hope you've got a strong floor - 1 cubic metre of water weighs a tonne......

Originally posted by Knoxville
Hope you've got a strong floor - 1 cubic metre of water weighs a tonne......

and you will need realy thick glass.

It's a shame that place near West bar police station has shut, they had a massive free-standing aquarium in the middle of the shop.

If it's floor to ceiling, how will you clean it? :confused:

Originally posted by Kristian
If it's floor to ceiling, how will you clean it? :confused:

I was also thinking on a similar line....when fish die they usually sink !?*? Getting em out would be tricky!!

I have PM'd you Cycleracer with a web address that may be helpful!!

Would you want Marine or Tropical?

Tropical cheaper and easier to keep.
Marine more colourfull and have personalities, expensive and a pain in the butt to keep.

It will cost you mega bucks for all the heaters, filters, protein skimmers, lighting, reverse osmosis water filter etc for that size of tank.
My other half has a 7ft x 3ft x 3ft bought off the shelf marine tank, upto now has cost over £3000 and two years to get the correct setup.
He has lost nearly £400 of fish in the process.

Not for the faint hearted or the small wallet.

Myself I have a more modest 3ft x 2ft x 2ft marine tank that I have never had any problems with once it was set up, but I do have double the amount of filtration than is necessary.

I recently decided to buy a tropical fish-tank and soon realised there's more to keeping fish than I thought. I had to condition the tank before I introduced fish which in due course I did.

Then, I had to regularly test the water for alkaline/acid levels, amonia and nitrite. I had to keep changing at least 10% of the water but enjoyed doing all this. My young girls enjoyed having an aquarium in the lounge.

Unfortunately, we went away for a week and when we returned three fish, out of ten died - I wasn't there to change the water.

I bought some more fish only two Sundays back and looked forward to the tank and the new fish settling down. But last night I did a water change before I went to bed and although I noticed the water to be cloudy, it soon cleared (with help of some fluid) and so I went to bed as usual.

This morning, all bar one of the fish were dead. I was so upset I've decided not to bother anymore. My wife got up for a drink of water in the night and noticed that it tasted awful.

Makes me wonder if the low quality of drinking water had an effect on my poor fishies?

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Makes me wonder if the low quality of drinking water had an effect on my poor fishies?

I think you're supposed to let the water stand overnight before you put it in the tank so the chlorine in it can evaporate.

I used anti-chlorine fluid Nick which has been fine before, but as I said, I noticed the water was cloudier than usual. With hindsight, I should have done 2 things:

1) Waited till the water was crystal clear; &

2) Not done a water change after a skin-full of Guinness.

But I wonder if the water was 'harder' last night and so gave the fish no chance.

Was the water at room temp??? Had you treated it with Stress Zyme???

I do 10% water changes every week in my 30L Bi-orb!! I do occasionally lose fish but not at that rate???

I suspect the fact you had 'dead, rotting' fish in your tank for a few days whilst away probably meant the ammonia levels peaked which would've weakened the fish and made them less hardy and the 'stress' of even a small water change probably didn't help!!

Have you checked your thermostat???

Just an idea as years ago my parents's tank heater/thermostat had been unplugged in error - fish died exactly at the rate you have experienced!!!



:thumbsup:

It does make you wonder how the great barrier reef has lasted so long when the animals are so weedy and fragile.

hi ya tere
if you want person to person advice go and see frank down on page hall just before brightside lane he makes tanks and will sort you out take no notice of the state of the shop he is really knowlageable chap hope this helps best regards steve...

Jeeze, theres more to keeping fish than I thought.
Have to consider the weight which is something I had not thought of.
Hey, I have seen a coffee table which is a fish tank, quite like the look of it to, That may be an alternative.
Anybody have one of those.

when my dad kept fish, he used to always change the water mid week..

Because over the weekend, the water companies use computers rather than people to keep things ticking over and more chemicals are added to the water as a result.

Iff you changed the water at the weekend, this could be why they all died,

I have seen one of the table tanks at a local fish suppliers Shirley Aquatics "not cheap" but really mega to look at.
Very tempting to tap on glass mind.

Have you seen the tall tube tanks? they look wicked specially when well lit. Still have the problem of retrieving dead fish though really long handled net maybe?


Originally posted by Cycleracer
Jeeze, theres more to keeping fish than I thought.
Have to consider the weight which is something I had not thought of.
Hey, I have seen a coffee table which is a fish tank, quite like the look of it to, That may be an alternative.
Anybody have one of those.

Originally posted by nick2
It does make you wonder how the great barrier reef has lasted so long when the animals are so weedy and fragile.

cos it's not a closed system and all the creatures are perfectly adapted for their environment.

all life floats upon a fragile boundary layer between order and chaos, ceaselessly processing matter and information. It's a delicate equilibrium.

Originally posted by steevie/d
hi ya tere
if you want person to person advice go and see frank down on page hall just before brightside lane he makes tanks and will sort you out take no notice of the state of the shop he is really knowlageable chap hope this helps best regards steve...

I'll second that! The shops a complete wreck but he sure knows his stuff. Some of the tanks he had built when i went in were amazing :thumbsup: (isn't it called ABC Aquatics? )

Personally i hated seeing an empty tank so i just bought hardy tropical fish (like Loaches/Neon Tetra's and Guppys). They seemed to survive fine in a tank that had just been set up. I even had a Siamese fighting fish in a 'fresh' tank and that survived for ages!

I found the best filtration was an under gravel blanket+pump, combined with a small Fluval filter to get a bit of movement in the water. That seemed to keep everything happy.
Plenty of weed is good too :)

hi paul yes those coffee tables are bloody nice but do you have kids running about to bump it or will you use it as a table. as you have to keep thinking fish dont like to keep getting knocked or tapped about

ABC Aquatics any body got more info on him iam after a 4ft x2ft x2ft tank at the moe got a 6ft x 2ft x18inch want to down grade to a smaller size tank so need 1 building or does any body know a good glass shop

Frank the tank has closed down, and has been for some time :)

If you're after such a big tank, then you'd really best be up on how to care for the fish.

As some have said, water quality varies, and in the past we had some sad losses, however, since having a HMA unit fitted (this is actually for drinking water) all is well. Takes out not only the chlorine but all the metals etc. Great drinking water and great for the fish too.

Personally, we don't get the water up to temp, with 30 tanks in the fish room and a 300l and small tank in the living room, we'd need a swimming pool for that LOL In nature the temperature isn't always the same, and actually for breeding a lot of fish, an influx of cold water indicates breeding season :)

Sorry mate. This thread is getting on for 5 years old. No idea why mechanictig bumped it but the aquatic shop ain't there these days :s