<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8464552#post8464552 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by stlouisguy
Have you seen it filled? I would think the bowing would distort the viewing of inside the tank.
Not my cup of tea, but I wish you luck with the project. Will tag along and watch develeopment.
How are you going to handle flow in that beast?
Actually, in the first two photos (tank is in my driveway) I have it completely filled with freshwater and fully running 2,000 (measured) GPH via two pumps and a makeshift sump. I completely water tested it and took the opportunity to design a silencing device for the overflow (took me only 'bout an hour before the only thing you could hear was the humming of the pumps) I know that is doesn't look like it, but there is actually water fully churning in there with the pumps wide-open...no micro bubbles or anything.
As for seeing it in action:
Ironically, I was one of the unfortunate souls who went to pick it up and haul it away for the PREVIOUS owner (a friend of mine) long before I bought it. When we got to the seller's house, the guy still had it completely full of livestock, sand, water, inverts, everything!
I had to physically climb into the damn thing and scoop sand out (one scoop at a time) with a child's sand trowel!
We had no tools, buckets, or anything with us since we were told that it's "ready to go...just come pick it up"
..oh well...ahem...I can laugh about it now anyway.
Obviously my freind gave me a hell-of-a-deal when I bought it from him, to return the favor.
anyhow, I didn't notice any distortion at all. The tank is built like a fortress; solid 1" acrylic all the way around. Its so big that the radiuses are (for lack of a better term) "slight" in any particular viewing area; does that make any sense? So no, it doesn't distort the viewing area like tighter radiuses would do. (ie bent corners, etc)
such a tease 
