Aquascaping

Does anyone remember the name of the guy that lived down in Provo, Rock Canyon I think, that built a big angled tank into the wall that had to be JLG lifted through the back patio door?  He had some good pictures on his website that showed his aragocrete bottom with PVC supports for his aquascaping and I'd like another look.

I'm nearly finished with the stand for my 210 and I would like to build a rock structure similar to the display tank at the bottom of the homepage of fragfarmer.com.  That's going to take some grey PVC or acrylic rods and drilling.  I just remember the one in Provo had alot of pictures detailing the pvc setup and I'd like to find it again if he still has the page up.

To jog your memories: it had an entire room behind it dedicated to the upkeep, including a big white plastic sink, wall-mount air conditioner, 2 huge sumps made from storage bins, and big box fans blowing accross the surface to cool it down.

Let me know if you remember his website.

Thanks, Sivert55

sivert55 wrote: Sweet!  Adam, you're a walking e-dewey decimal system.  thanks.

That's why I'm here.

Adam

Hey - Jim Perry here -

I did indeed sell my house (and the tank) about a year ago to Gabe, but if you have any questions about it, you can ask away.

If you just want to go see it, then you'll have to take that up with Gabe. Not sure if it has changed much since I last saw it, Mark Petersen probably knows about that.

Oh, and the location is actually in Cedar Hills, not Provo. The domain is Rockcanyon.com for the web site, simply because that was a convenient domain to use at the time.

jim

Good to see you here Jim.

Fax

I had two Dolphin 3 pumps pumping 3600 gph each through those pipes, but frankly it should have been a lot more - twice that much to have good flow.

The pipes don't need to be embedded in the cement, but they would harder to hide. After a couple years I raised the rock up off the bottom and had water "sweeping" underneath to keep the detritus from collecting underneath, and that worked well. It would be hard to do that if there were pipes under there blocking the flow - you'd have to align the flow with the pipes.

I used acrylic rods like stilts - three in each base rock (three is always stable since three points define a plane). then I piled some rocks against the stilts themselves where they were visible to hide it. It looked really good and worked like a charm.