how hard would it be to make this???

Beautiful tank – couple of things come to mind. Cleaning glass, not so much fun. Jumping fish, not much you can do about it. Salt creep at divorce levels. Noise could be a deal breaker as well.

As for difficulties making it, seems straight forward to me – but this is one of those things that’s probably best in a store display…in my ever so humble opinion

 

It may be harder than you think. the lip of the glass looked to be curved, I don't know if that is just for looks or plays some sort of functional role as well. Then the stand will have to be designed very well. You will obviously need to make it water proof. Also, flow could be a big issue as you really can't put any power heads in the tank, nor would you want to.

 

I could see a design plus in that you would have very good oxygenation and never have to worry about that layer of gunk that can form in pockets on the waters surface..

 

Negative, I've been right in front of that tank and its as noisey as a normal tank, if that. The cleaning is easy, he(Henry) showed me. No salt creep b/c theres no splashing. As for the fish jumping, thats a possibility, but theres almost a 3" "lip" where the water collects and acts like a "safety net" if you will. If it does fall in that "lip" the fish will end up in the sump. Its a sweet tank, the video doesnt do it justice at all.



Luna

 

I recently built a house for a client, he hired some local outfit to build a tank simular to that. Except he wanted it as an infinite style thing, so it overflowed and it was built into a basin that had drains to take the water to the refugium/sump/etc. They built it on site *cough*using my powertools, the buggers*cough* and had it built in prolly 4 hours or so.

 

i've considered trying my had at this sort of thing as well. if you figure out an economically friendly way of doing this i would love to use my cabinetry skills to work this into a large coffee table with a hanging pendant.

 

As Curt said, these tanks are not "built", Its a Zero Edge. You buy them set-up this way.

 

lol algae would not be an option i can picture a mag float cleaning with this tank lol

 

as far i have have seen, i don't believe that this have any seams on them (correct me) almost as if they are injection molded or something. however, couldn't one get fancy and fake one up. router the edges on the top and sides of the acrylic and make acrylic gutters with overflows?

or are you saying that building this would be ripping off a quality sponsor of the site?

 

You can build whatever and copy a particular companies design for personal use. Now if you use a patented design, and sell them to people, then that is where you get in trouble.

IME, anything that a company makes, a DIYer can make even better, provided the tools are not out of price range to DIY it that is.