DIY Concrete Aquarium 5,000 gallon - Anderson Family Reef
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Random thought of the day, how many days do you think it is going to take to fill this tank with water?
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I may hire a truck of RODI to be delivered otherwise it will take a while!! LOL I need to biggie size my RODI unit for sure
Sounds like a contest to me where are the RODI vendors here on R2R! We all guess the number to the exact minute and the winner gets a decked out RODI unit
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Oceanic Waters has a 1000 GPD one... so under a week easy
The Shark 1000 GPD RO REVERSE OSMOSIS AQUARIUM RO/DI SYSTEM
The Shark Reverse Osmosis unit has been designed to bring you a state of Reverse Osmosis efficiency that has never before been realized, while offering a commercial Reverse Osmosis for the price of a residental unit.This system is designed to work on line water pressure.The unit will give you...
www.oceanicwater.com
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Do you know anyone that is using one of these? It looks great and I have seen it before! This one may work perfectly!!Oceanic Waters has a 1000 GPD one... so under a week easy
The Shark 1000 GPD RO REVERSE OSMOSIS AQUARIUM RO/DI SYSTEM
The Shark Reverse Osmosis unit has been designed to bring you a state of Reverse Osmosis efficiency that has never before been realized, while offering a commercial Reverse Osmosis for the price of a residental unit.This system is designed to work on line water pressure.The unit will give you...
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No, as it said, it was just a random thought that popped into my head: how will you fill this thing. That led me to google looking up commercial RO/DI units.
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Filling this is easy! A slide back roof to allow a fire fighting helicopter with one tonne dump bucket to dump the water straight in! Should have the job done in one morning!
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Pull it right out of the Great Salt Lake. Salinity might be a little off, but you can fine tune it.Filling this is easy! A slide back roof to allow a fire fighting helicopter with one tonne dump bucket to dump the water straight in! Should have the job done in one morning!
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You are not kidding!! He’s huge! He got banged up coming out of his last 500 gallon tank but is moving around better today
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Now you are revealing my secrets!!
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That’s insane! How old is he?
Because if you pour something that size all at once you would have issues with expansion and cracking, and it would be very hard to form the floor in with the shear pressure of the concrete for the walls. It could blow out, I’ve seen it happen. It’s just better to do the floor first then the walls. You can also put in membranes in the floor porting sticking up for the wall portion during the pour that makes the joints water tight. Concrete will naturally crack there. We do that all the time when pouring walls or massive holding tanks (sewer treatment plants, and fresh water facilities.).
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