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  1. highlands

    Low iron glass

    I'm ordering some low iron glass for a new tank. Quote is: QUOTE FOR 48 X 27- 3/4" THICK OPTIWHITE WITH A BELT SEAMED EDGE ( NOT POLISHED, MAY HAVE MINOR CHIPPING*-- WE ARE ASSUMING THE EDGE WILL BE CONCEALED) $327.11 How does that seem?
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    Barry Grossmans big tank

    Hey Barry, Any news?
  3. highlands

    Sources of low-iron laminated glass?

    I've been working on my plans for a new large tank to go in our soon to be built house. The tank will be made of concrete with glazing panels in the upper part of the water column. I'm trying to find a source of low-iron laminated glass. I'm incline to go with the laminated glass because of the...
  4. highlands

    The building of the beast.

    Beautiful!
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    Internal Overflow

    Something I've done is to cut a sheet of glass (or acrylic) that makes the hypotenus of a trangle with the back corner of a tank. I then put plumbing, pumps, skimmer or outlets into that cut off corner area. The height of the glass sets the water level in the tank. It is silent and highly...
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    FIRE!!! Yikes!!!

    I had an IceCap 660 VHO ballast go. It had been running for months without a problem. It was mounted up on the wall above the tank. No salt spray (tank covers + hood), no salt creep, clean install. Sparks and smoke. Fortunately I was right there, sitting at my desk when it blew and I was able to...
  7. highlands

    Being Conscientious

    It is important to keep in mind that there are a lot of other activities (shell collecting, fishing, airport building, road building, sewage, industrial & agricultural runoff, etc) that are many orders of magnitude more destructive to the reefs and fishies than the collecting that goes on for...
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    Glazing Choices for Large Tank

    I am working on designing a large tank for our new home. The tank will be built of reinforced cement. All of the plumbing will be through the cement and contained with in the vessel for the most part. There will be no need to drill or cut the glass which will be rectangular panels on the order...
  9. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    Do you know if the Xypex is invert safe? Someone on a cement construction discussion list mentioned this product to me. I've not heard from the company yet on my querry.
  10. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    I have a concrete spraying system and last year did tests with various admixes for water proofing the concrete. I haven't explored the spray on potable water supply coatings yet. Top of the list for this year! More research to go though. We're just losing our snow here in the north country so...
  11. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    I've explored many of their web sites trying to find articles about how they built their tanks without success and have written to four of them - awaiting replies. I thought the New England Aquarium in Boston had something about how they created their tanks but I can't find it.
  12. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    Barry (and others), I've been scouring the web over the last few weeks (which is how I found Barry's thread) for articles on construction of large aquariums using concrete. I've not found much. Does anyone have a list of links on this topic?
  13. highlands

    Glass or Acrylic ?? Vote Preference

    Who here has a tempered glass tank? (side / front / back panes, not bottom) How do you like it? Any scratches? Any blowouts?
  14. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    No kidding! Barry's tank is inspiring! I just showed the thread and photos to my wife. She enjoys seeing my tanks and loves having them around but isn't 'in-to-it' like we tank heads are. But seeing Barry's photos made her want to start making clay models of the house and tank we're going to...
  15. highlands

    Glass or Acrylic ?? Vote Preference

    Has anyone ever heard of tempered glass scratching? My understanding is that it shouldn't be able to scratch - a scratch would cause catastrophic failure. Real life experience??? All I've had are acrylic and plate glass tanks. I am considering tempered glass for the large tank I'm planning to...
  16. highlands

    Calculating Amp Draw of Components

    I bought a little device called a KiloWatt that you plug in between your equipment to be measured and the wall power. It gives very nice readings over time of actual power consumption. Radio Shack, among others, has it. I believe the cost was $30 or so. Well worth it. Move it around and discover...
  17. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    I've seen photos of Sonatubes. It's a good concept and what we're planning to do is a skylight which is basically a very large Sonatube. It will have an iris that will let me control the light intensity should it actually be too intense (unlikely in our climate and at our latitude) as well as...
  18. highlands

    BigWave Idea?

    The structural integrity of the tank should be fine. Consider it like a beam. You can remove about 1/3rd of the inner volume of a beam without significantly affecting it's loading capacity. However, I still would hesitate to drill all those holes as I like leak proof boxes. I flinch at the idea...
  19. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    Thanks for the welcome. I'm ___VERY___ interested in Barry's large tank project. Please do keep us all informed in detail, Barry! I am looking for information about large tank projects. We are going to be building a new house soon and I am designing the core of the house to be a large marine...
  20. highlands

    Barry Grossmans big tank

    I've done a lot of work with filter applications for both compression and vacuum. One small trick is to use a large area low speed horizontal entanglement. This has been shown to be highly effective and have minimal resistance to air movement and reduced clogging. This reduces the frequency of...
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