Building 1600 Gallon Bioshock Themed Octopus Tank

[asdfghp]

I wish otherwise, but he probably underestimated the cost to build & maintain a tank of this grandure; and has realized he is way over his head. Damn, it would've been very interesting to watch the progress of this endeavor. ��

 

[Rx79394]

How do you calculate the outward pressure? Is it the same as the pressure straight down (rho*g*h)?

 

[asdfghp]

Water will exert a pressure of .43 psi for every foot of depth.
Those square inches add up quick. And before you know it, you can have hundreds of pounds trying to blow out the walls of your aquarium.

 

[E46er]

Insurance investigators are incredibly savvy with regards to these types of situations. I mean, you'll have all sorts of salt water damage to the inside of the house, but miraculously the outside of the house will show nothing, no dead grass or gardens, no salt damage the siding of the house, no dirt runoff from the flood etc.

If the fraud level is large enough they won't initially tell you they are denying the claim. They will start to gather evidence of the fraud. Like the square on the floor where there used to be a tank. Evidence of a large aquarium will be all over your house, from RO units, salt buckets, testing equipment etc etc. Then they'll subpoena the electric company for your historical usage and compare it with your new usage and see that there was a major drop in usage right at the time of the loss. They will also get your credit card history and banking info and see you buying all this stuff that isn't there.

Then they'll send you a letter asking you to verify all your claims, sign it and mail it back. Once you do that you have risen to the level of mail fraud. So they take the Insurance Fraud and combine it with the Mail Fraud and take you to court with a possible 10-25 year sentence and some large fines.

It was a joke........ Hopefully like this thread......

 

[110GTJ]

Definately following this one !!!

 

[ThisGuy12]

Definately following this one !!!

To see it fail like the rest of us? Or do you genuinely think it will work? :blown:

 

[Turbosreef]

I guess he quit while he was ahead.

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[asdfghp]

What ever happened to this project?

 

[Turbosreef]

Maybe turned into the 1600 gallon mess in the basement

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[dt204]

lol i enjoy the "no" crowd. Its the reason i build things that "cant" be done!

 

[DM and the Boys]

The crayon diagrams earlier didn't instill any confidence...lol

 

[ThisGuy12]

The crayon diagrams earlier didn't instill any confidence...lol

Haha.

OP where are you? We want to see an update!

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[krazyk148]

Sorry everyone, i havent posted on here mostly due to the negativity and lack of support but ill give ya an update in any case! I had to finish my kitchen first so this project got pushed back but now its my main project. Im halfway through fiberglassing at this point and everything is going great! I did underestimate how much resin i would need so im just waiting to finish the window panels and brick support.

 

[krazyk148]

Its kinda hard to post pics of the fiberglassing but here ya go.

 

[JonezNReef]

Glad you havent give up on this project. Cant wait to see this up and going.

 

[ExpensiveHobby]

Wow

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

This is very similar to how I built my 3' tall 300g fish pond outside. ...however I used pressure treated 4x4.and 10" spikes..either way I am actually kinda curious to see how this fills up. ..there are plenty of nay sayers out there...and although I have a bad feeling about long term of this tank I can't wait to see it done

 

[krazyk148]

I should mention that there are 1/4" angle iron used within the framing of the windows and internal supports.

 

[Biggen]

I hope you get this finished. Would love to see the outcome here.

 

[dt204]

Hopefully the negativity won't stop you from bringing this to fruition.
I see your theatre sign etc is already a BioShock take off

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