hakmazter
Aquarium Advice Newbie
ok, I want to build a tank roughly 8 feet wide 4 feet deep and about 2 feet thick. To make a long story short, use a 4x8 sheet of acrylic for the viewing window. I have an above ground pool and it is 4 feet deep in the shallow end and the metal surround of it is literally as thin as a japanese car fender. I am having a really hard time grasping how an aquarium needs thicker than 1/2 for this project when my pool being 18x36 is literally about 20,000 gallons not 300. Anyone want to try to tackle this one for me? It seems to me that I could literally make an aquarium out of 1/8 aluminum and put a rubber tarp in it and it would be way more solid than the pool.