Isn't this tank beautiful?

[FC]

[hwchoy]

never liked curved tanks, too distorting.

[aldrinsl]

Looks Great!!!

[benny]

These are probably very expensive, judging from the design and the thickness of the glass. It's braceless too.

Is this picture from Oliver's website?

Cheers,

[hwchoy]

These are probably very expensive, Cheers,

it also have a tropica logo at the corner

[FC]

Yap, it's from Oliver and a Tropica Tank.

I read about the concept many months back from a German source. I think it makes sense as it is designed to allow viewer to see the display in direct angle of view. I like the idea very much as I always wanted to veiw my foreground plants from top or at least at a higher angle. The original design was a flat glass pane that angled at about 70 degree inwards. This one is more fancy and looks better athestically.

[alan]

this is strange , i can't view the photo or am i the only one who cant ?

[wks]

Freddy, is that Hermianthus callitrichiodes planted at the foreground? I wonder how long it takes for this plant to spread to the present stage?

Jason Wong

[kadios]

Hi Alan!

I was about to ask the same question as well. You are not alone! I wonder if it is due to my PC settings but I have no idea as I am PC idiot.

Cheers!

Kar Hwee

[RonWill]

Guys,

For those who couldn't see the pic, it's because you're impatient... it happened to me too!

It didn't occur to me that it was a high-res pic and will take a while. If you still have problems, go directly to;
http://mishilo.image.pbase.com/u37/p...icaStand00.jpg ... and wait!

Nice pic, like the layout ... I'm sure my killies will like it too! :wink:

[hwchoy]

that's not it Ronnie, once the "red cross" appears it means "yo, no pics for you, dude."

for some reason the server refuses to serve the picture for embedded IMG tags but works fine if you paste the link into your browser URL field. that's how I managed to see the pic.

[RonWill]

for some reason the server refuses to serve the picture for embedded IMG tags but works fine if you paste the link into your browser URL field. that's how I managed to see the pic.

Choy, that's not it either... I can see the pic in the original post now, tags or no tags. Perhaps it the bandwidth allocated for that image... but heck, I don't really know.

Before we run too far off topic, instead of the curved front glass panel, would the following idea work? (see diagram)


Would a straight, but angled panel deal with the distortion issue? Can such a design deal with the water pressure if it's braceless?

Just a thought.

[ruyle]

Ronnie, the diagram looks like a meat counter Great looking tank pictured. I opened it by right clicking and then clicking: get it with Kontiki...
opened right up. Still trying to figure out how to post pictures to this site.
Are most of you on broadband?

Regards,

Bill
farang9

[timebomb]

Are most of you on broadband?

Most of us who live in Singapore are either on cable or broadband, Bill. It may surprise many that Ronnie Lee who's so active in this forum and has created many useful web pages is on dial-up. I suppose this goes to show that it's the user and not the tool that makes all the difference.

Just imagine what Ronnie can do if he's on cable :smile:

By the way, I managed to see Freddy's picture only by right-clicking on it and selecting "View Image".

Loh K L

[zmzfam]

Can such a design deal with the water pressure if it's braceless?

One reason why the Tropica tank can be braceless has something to do with the curve surface. If you look at the design of a hydro-electric dam, the surface holding back the water is always curved in.
Recall back your secondary science, the most pressure exerted by the water is always straight onto the surface, or 90 degrees to the surface. On a curved surface, the pressure is less since the actual pressure on the glass surface has to take into account the angle of the curvature.

:P Hahaha...I don't think anybody can understand what I'm talking about, but Ron, I don't think the straight strip at the bottom can withstand the pressure and there is a weak point at the junction of the straight and the slant glass and pressure is most at the bottom. Remove the short horizontal strip at the bottom.

Are you making one?

[hwchoy]

mmm… in a dam the wall look “sloped” because the top part is thinner than the base, for the exact reason you cited. they also arc the wall inwards so that it can withstand more pressure at the centre portion (farthest from the two side anchors). Same principle as the chinese arc bridge except turned onto the sides.

following the same reasoning, the top part of the tropica tank will take much less pressure because the volume of water at the top (per vertical dimension) is less than that at the bottom. The bottom part need not use thicker glass as the base acts as a brace. The top did not need a brace as there is less pressure