700+ gallon Ray Pool
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life~reefer
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Wow! I don't know how I missed this! It looks GREAT!!!!!
dean1956
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My wife and i today went to the Shedd Aquarium downtown Chicago and i saw their Ray pond and i want a bigger one and mine isnt even bulit. Not really but theirs was amazing. They had alot of blue dot rays and one fiddler ray which to me looks like a shark ray but still was cool. They breed the blue dots (both kinds) and do it well also i might add and some of them must have been 4' long head to tail, really big for those guys.
meowzer
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Originally Posted by Dean1956
http:///forum/post/3168376
My wife and i today went to the Shedd Aquarium downtown Chicago and i saw their Ray pond and i want a bigger one and mine isnt even bulit. Not really but theirs was amazing. They had alot of blue dot rays and one fiddler ray which to me looks like a shark ray but still was cool. They breed the blue dots (both kinds) and do it well also i might add and some of them must have been 4' long head to tail, really big for those guys.
Did you get any pics????
http:///forum/post/3168376
My wife and i today went to the Shedd Aquarium downtown Chicago and i saw their Ray pond and i want a bigger one and mine isnt even bulit. Not really but theirs was amazing. They had alot of blue dot rays and one fiddler ray which to me looks like a shark ray but still was cool. They breed the blue dots (both kinds) and do it well also i might add and some of them must have been 4' long head to tail, really big for those guys.
Did you get any pics????
dean1956
Member
I didnt get any pics of the bluedots because they wouldnt allow flashes down there and all i had was my phone. I did get a couple of picks of a cownose ray and some midas cichlids with the huge lumps on there forheads. I will have to see about a cord to upload them. We also took a tour behind the scenes and saw the filtration, labs, quarentene tanks, huge coolers for foods, never saw suck big containers of nightcrawlers, there hospital and even a morg. to see why the fish died. Their skimmers were every bit of 20' tall, some pretty cool stuff.
seschaefer
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THis is beautiful. I am trying to convince my wife we need to put something like this in our living room as the center piece. She is not anywhere near as excited about this idea as I am.
I will have to wait until she sees the light.
dean1956
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Originally Posted by seschaefer
http:///forum/post/3171943
THis is beautiful. I am trying to convince my wife we need to put something like this in our living room as the center piece. She is not anywhere near as excited about this idea as I am.
I will have to wait until she sees the light.
The living room might be a long wait
http:///forum/post/3171943
THis is beautiful. I am trying to convince my wife we need to put something like this in our living room as the center piece. She is not anywhere near as excited about this idea as I am.
The living room might be a long wait
seschaefer
Member
True, but what is the point of this hobby if we can't dream of impossible things.
dean1956
Member
Drilled my holes for the 2" bulkheads for 20.5 in of water so that will give me right around 800 gallons in the pond, also the liner came in sat. which was a week before they said it would be here, how about them apples. A question for you guys: I want to put something on the plywood before I lay the liner in and was going to use 1/2" styrofoam but can only find 3/4" but there might be something better like a foam rubber or ? what do you guys suggest?
seschaefer
Member
Tank is looking great. I can't wait to see it with the rays in it!
dean1956
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I need to run my drains around the outside back to my sump which is in the back right corner of the pics and would like to hard pipe it since it's much cheaper than flex pvc but the hard pipe would need to be bent at the 10' radius, anyone out there done this? If not I will just buy the flex pvc unless some one has another idea, feel free to give an idea I wont blast anyone for ideas.
dean1956
Member
I guess I learned making curved things working at a stair building company. I was in charge of going out to the houses and tracing out their curved balcony's and landings and then coming back to the shop and making the curved bottom plates and railings , and then I had a cabinet/furniture shop for 10 yrs and it sure helps if you enjoy doing something, you know?