RE: [APD] Re: A large tank

["AZ Burns" <aerburns at hotmail_com>]

Well, back in 1902 they probably didn't even have a poured basement, just 
dirt. They likely added one later.  And then they added even more concrete 
later with code-violating plumbing galore, but don't get me started on that.

I often considered getting or building a really big tank some day when I am 
retired. But I used to be into African Cichlids. A setup which would require 
less pruning and lower electric bills.  Maybe I'll just have to design a 
house with the big tank in the basement, and a skylight shaft shaped like 
this /\ shining down from a story or two above.  I'll have a photo sensor 
hooked up to backup metal halides. And maybe I'll just have to become 
independently wealthy to afford that.

I often wonder... Do I own my aquariums? Or is it the other way around?

AZ Burns


> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>
> Reply-To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
> Subject: RE: [APD] Re: A large tank
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:50:41 -0800 (PST)
>
> I'll bet the water changes aren't done with buckets.
>
> Do they really allow 1.5" slabs under local bldg. codes?
>
> Scott H.
> --- AZ Burns <aerburns at hotmail_com> wrote:
> > I work at an Architecture and Engineering Firm and talked
> > to a guy I know in
> > out Structural department extensively about getting my 75
> > and whether it
> > would be a problem in my house.  We discussed slab on
> > grade, and he said
> > that the slab in my 1902 house was probably 1.5" thick
> > and that it would be
> > a bad idea to put a 75 on it.
> >
> > Based on that, I would think that a tank the size of the
> > one in the picture
> > there would need more than a standard 4" slab on grade.
> > I would want a
> > footing underneath the slab under the whole tank
> > personally.
> >
> >
>
> =====
> S. Hieber
>
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