Go big or go home

[G Santana]

Welcome to R2R
Now that's something I have to see

 

[Bfragale]

Man can’t wait to see photos!

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Hello and welcome to the channel.

 

[Weasel1960]

Welcome to the community, can’t wait to see this build thread. The stand will need t be Mother Earth, make sure to have some soil borings done.

 

[MERKEY]

Hello and welcome to R2R!

 

[jtp7004ft]

Welcome!

 

[rubertoe93]

Welcome!!

 

[NigelRichardson]

10,000 gallons?!? Thats only a little bit smaller than what I have in my back garden...

... and that's a swimming pool - which is a whole other level of chemistry complexity for me to try to balance!

(I thought pool water chemistry was complicated..... so I fixed that by setting up a reef tank...)

 

[lelandmarine]

Welcome

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R. That’s a big project.

 

[Ippyroy]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[BeltedCoyote]

welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Dragonstar]

Welcome! Sounds like a wicked build are you using fiberglass? Something like this?

Thanks for that link! This is the kind of wisdom I need.

 

[Dragonstar]

Welcome to Reef 2 reef!! Definitely sounds like a job for some high quality, thick acrylic!! Not sure what to do for a stand this large but I’m sure others can educate us both on materials regarding 10,000 gallon tank stands ;Bookworm;Bookworm;Drool

I have a query thread in the DIY forum:

10,000 gallon "moat" in a geodesic dome

For many reasons I've decided to build a 38' diameter geodesic dome to house an aquaponics system. This will be the culmination of many years of ideas and components coming together. I'd like it to be a functional space to grow fish and produce to eat, and also an idyllic retreat for relaxing...

www.reef2reef.com

There won't be a stand, no way I would engineer an 85,000 lb stand. It will be buried in the grround with a two-foot earthbag retaining wall to keep the water in place. I'll have two buttresses spanning the interior as well. The acrylic window is definitely the weak link here.

 

[Dragonstar]

Welcome to Reef 2 reef!! Definitely sounds like a job for some high quality, thick acrylic!! Not sure what to do for a stand this large but I’m sure others can educate us both on materials regarding 10,000 gallon tank stands ;Bookworm;Bookworm;Drool

The acrylic I have is 1cm thick. 0.39 inches. Not sure that is enough? I hope so.

 

[LegendaryCG]

I have a query thread in the DIY forum:

10,000 gallon "moat" in a geodesic dome

For many reasons I've decided to build a 38' diameter geodesic dome to house an aquaponics system. This will be the culmination of many years of ideas and components coming together. I'd like it to be a functional space to grow fish and produce to eat, and also an idyllic retreat for relaxing...

www.reef2reef.com

There won't be a stand, no way I would engineer an 85,000 lb stand. It will be buried in the grround with a two-foot earthbag retaining wall to keep the water in place. I'll have two buttresses spanning the interior as well. The acrylic window is definitely the weak link here.

Are you selling king crab quotas on your sea? I’d like the rights to fish a few hundred pounds.

 

[Dragonstar]

Are you selling king crab quotas on your sea? I’d like the rights to fish a few hundred pounds.

Sure! With the price of crab right now that would probably pay for a good chunk of the project.

 

[Dragonstar]

Welcome to the community, can’t wait to see this build thread. The stand will need t be Mother Earth, make sure to have some soil borings done.

I agree on your choice of stand. Thanks for the tip about soil boring. If it's anything like the last one I built, the soild profile is 6 inches of sad, gray "soil" followed by eleventy thousand feed of hard packed red clay.

 

[BaysEndReef]