Cylinder Aquariums
 

If this needs to be moved to another forum, feel free to do so. I have the opportunity to build a few small cylinder aquariums, they will be 24" in diameter, Im not sure if I should make them 24" tall or 32" tall. I think that most reefers would like them to be 24" tall for lighting requirements to keep corals, but they would look more impressive if they were 32" tall. Now comes the question, do you think any reefers would actually be willing to buy something like this? Or would they be more geared towards non reefers, just for a showy display. They would be 47gallons at 24" tall and 62gallons at 32" tall. They would have centered 4" black cylinder acrylic overflows that would have overflow, return, and electrical for the canopy all enclosed and out of sight. I think they would make great reef tanks but Im asking for your opinions, would reefers want these???
Thanks: Kyle

I think that would be a really slick species tank. An anemone, maybe a seagrass or caulerpa tank. My only concern would be distortion due to the curvature.

Kyle, I think it would be really nice to have something like that with one large cap in it. The big problem I see here is the cost. I can imagine that 24" OD tubing is kinda pricey!

I'm with Quinn, I think that would make a particularly slick species tank for something. Seahorses ... maybe upsidedown jellies .... I dunno. Probably lots of things! But I'm also with Brad in that I'm afraid to ask what it's gonna cost.

Cylinder Tanks
 

Here is a great site for cylinder tanks....Actually DREAM TANKS :)

http://www.livingcolor.com/home.cfm

Yeah cylinders are pricey no doubt... The cylinder in the pics of the canreef photo gallery is well over $50,000.00 so yeah not too cheap!
These ones would be much more affordable though, I would guess that I would charge about $4500.00-$6000.00 depending depending on the options and the stand and canopy for a complete turn key aquarium with sump, pumps, lighting, skimmer, center overflow. For just the bare tank with black acrylic tube overflow, bottom, and top with cutouts and lids I would ask around $2000.00 for a 24" tall cylinder. Not cheap but very very nice!!!

Wow, it'd be an absolute tragedy then if you scratch the acrylic at $50000.

How do you keep the surface so sparkly clean? Is there a curved cleaning magnet or something like that?

Yup, that's gonna happen never!!!

yeah thats the answer I thought most reefers would have. I did some number crunching and would be able to sell them for about $1500 that would leave me with less than 10% profit margin, thats sad. Not really worth the time and effort. Oh well Im still gona make 3 or 4 of them and market them to the rich and frivilous.

I use "algae free" magnets with a couple extra layers of acrylic cleaning pad on the inside half of the magnet to follow the contour of the tank.

Well, I'm going to keep a lookout for cheap 24" tube, and maybe someday I'll build one of these. Then I'll put my orange cap in it!!