Cylinder!

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

I've been offered a 30 inch diameter 5 foot tall fiberglass tank. It's slightly fuzzy, say like 90 or 95% transparent, but you can see almost like a smokiness to it.

Part of me just want's to say yes, just because it's a circular tank, and it sounds cool. The other part of me has no idea what I'd do with the thing. It holds something like 175 gallons.

What would you guys do with something like that if you had it?

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:18 pm

Well, I would start by filling it with some water. I dont know what I would do with it, never thought of having one like that. Seems it would be impossible to clean though at 5ft. tall. You would almost have to consider a salt tank with lots of plants and corals, maybe some inverts.

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Sun Oct 10, 2010 7:41 pm

It would be very tough to clean. Maybe you could use it for a growout tank for some of your turtle feeders or something.

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:33 am

Kinda impractical size for most things. Would make a great start for a larval rearing tank for planktonic fry, like monos. Smile

WYite

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

I was thinking along the lines of a plant tank or if I had a ton of money to throw at it, a jellyfish tank, but yea, as cool as it sounds, it is sort of impractical. They were using them for breeding live salt water foody bits.

The mono fry thing sounds pretty neat, but I think I have to shake the jinx I have on the adults first. Smile

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:32 pm

A planted 175 cylinder would be friggin sweet.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

You'd need some heavy duty lights for that though, at 5 feet tall, the bottoms would have trouble wouldn't they?

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:34 am

angle lighting.

LED strips down the side , lighting from the side PCF bulbs work good. I was growing crypts like crazy using a 40w 6500K PCF shining from the side.

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

Do you have a good resource available for decent tank aquarium lights or at least the different types? I'm not seeing anything besides opinions and forum posts at least searching on it right now.

Since we do so much with reptiles here, nearly all my bulbs are uvb or heat lamps. When the uvb bulbs stop generating enough uvb I tend to swap them into fixtures for the fish tanks, where uvb isn't an issue.

From your plant thread, for example, the tank here that has the plants going in it really well is one that just has two old 4 foot UVB 10 tubes on it. I never got into anything fancy enough that needed really specific light requirements, or if someone did give me some it didn't last long. Wink

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:40 pm

I use a local shop
http://www.biggrowhydro.com/

alot cheaper because its not marketed towards fish.

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:03 am

How about a nice dunk tank. You could set it up in your driveway and charge a buck a ball to try and dunk you. The proceeds could go to help your fish and turtle rescues Wink

Subject: Re: Cylinder! Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:44 am

Good Idea, when you are done send it this way, I found a new chair for the wife LOL

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