building a 500 gallon plywood tank

[lusenut2]

Anymore updates?

 

[kherron666]

Anymore updates?

, sorry guys , no real up date , i have not had time or money to do anything yet , but soon i will be getting back on track , i did get my filter system quite and it was working , i need to paint inside of my stand and building the canopy too , i did some for the canopy but still got while to go , i know i have been slacking lol , but time for tank is hard with kids and work and everthing ,

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

its been while since i been here for up date , but no real big up date , i got my tank drained to finish up the out side , i got my canopy made , still making the doors and got to water proff the whole stand , inside and out side and the canopy then skin the tank too ,,, once i get that part done which should be done by end of the month , been busy with life , work and family , i had to take time off from the tank , but been getting back to it lately

 

[kherron666]

my tank is 8 feet long and i used the extra plywood from my tank build , and most canopy kinda hangs on the tank , i couldnt realy do that , my canopy is the same size as my tank , so its kinda just sitting on it , so i added a 2x2 on both of the side on the top of my tank so my canopy cant just slide off

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

got some time on my hands , stained the out side of the tank and inside and out side of the stand , its about all water proff now , still have to stained the doors to the canopy and have to do the inside of the canopy too

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

move the tank back in its new home place ,, plum it up , i went with 1 inch return on its side of the tank , added 500 pds of sand , i got pool filter sand , i have small filter tank out side of the stand to play with the stuff for now , when adding the sand , went real cloudy even after washing the sand out , week later cleared up and i drain my tank some and added my fish from my 125 gallon , put all the water from 125 gallon into the 500 gallon and im using the 125 gallon as my filter system for good month cause i wont hae to start a new cycle in the big tank

 

[kherron666]

good month or 2 later , i will be putting the 125 gallon under the stand and finish the plum work for the filter system and i made temporary doors on the stand and canopy just soo see how it looks till i skin the whole thing in few months , but in the all the Tank is now a Fish tank , .......

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

water went really cloudy after adding the sand , even after washing it , week later clear up

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

its finally fish time , lol

 

[kherron666]

 

[kherron666]

i have a question for everyone , i drain my old tank 125 gallon into my big tank and im using the old tank with everthing i had in their as my filter tank so i wont have to cycle my big tank , how long you think it need to be there or you think its done cycle , i dont have no trace of anything , but i was wondering is that cause i still got my filter tank from using the old tank , its been about 2 weeks now what you think ??

 

[erictorres0311]

very nice tank

 

[milonedp]

If you didn't add any additional Livestock and you used all of the same filter material and everything is testing good then your cycle is over. Just remember though everytime you add new fish (or bio load) there is a new cycle, usually so small you don't notice. I only mention that because you went up to such a larger size tank than what you had, so don't try to add to much all at once.

Tank looks great!