Deep sea tank

[paulatgis]

8 feet tall, 1 foot wide by 1 foot depth. can make it out of a single sheet 8 by 4 plexyglass. got the idea from a "really tall 10 gallon thread" post. maybe put a pump at the bottom to push water up. you've got bottom feeders and top feeders. the middle four feet for structure and crustasceans like barnacles.

 

[MonsterGar]

You mean like an actual deep sea tank with deep sea fish? If so, good luck finding deep sea creatures at you LFS. But if you do manage to pull that off that would be amazing.

 

[AcornTheBetta]

8 feet tall, 1 foot wide by 1 foot depth. can make it out of a single sheet 8 by 4 plexyglass. got the idea from a "really tall 10 gallon thread" post. maybe put a pump at the bottom to push water up. you've got bottom feeders and top feeders. the middle four feet for structure and crustasceans like barnacles.

I may be mistaken, but tall tanks like that with a small footprint are notoriously hard to build and keep. I mean, how would you gravel vac a tank taller than you? How would you refill it? It would have to be pretty strong because the outward force of the water will be high.

 

[fish 321]

Isn't a 1 foot width a little small?

 

[MonsterGar]

I feel the tank could topple over pretty easily.

 

[goldface]

Surely, you're mistaken. You're talking about an aquarium that has an area of a sq. ft. That's not much larger than the tiles of my bathroom floor.

Even if you found a species small enough to "fit," stocking with bottom and mid-dwelling species would be pointless. They'd all likely mingle together, using up all the verticle space available to them, since they'd lack the horizontal area to swim.

 

[Jesterrace]

8 feet tall, 1 foot wide by 1 foot depth. can make it out of a single sheet 8 by 4 plexyglass. got the idea from a "really tall 10 gallon thread" post. maybe put a pump at the bottom to push water up. you've got bottom feeders and top feeders. the middle four feet for structure and crustasceans like barnacles.

A tiny footprint column tank like that would be an absolute nightmare for maintenance. About the only thing that would work well with those dimensions would be smaller jellyfish or seahorses (neither of which are newbie friendly). As the tank matures coralline algae (hard encrusted algae) will settle in and scrubbing that 8 foot vertical (and narrow) tank on a weekly basis trying to keep it clean would be horrible. With saltwater tanks it's best to go with a longer and wider tank for all but the 2 cases I mentioned.