RyanMake has an entertaining video and blog post detailing his design. For a person with his level of carpentry skill, this build was done in 2 hours. I would *NEVER* be able to build this.
Author: diytanks_b847n3
Getting Epsom Salt
When adding salt to the tank to create buoyancy, the super-cheap price of pool salt can be a temptation. It is only 25 cents per pound. And one long-term floater said it worked out fine for him. But this post will focus what happened once I decided on epsom salt. I read through both threads […]
Submersible aquarium heaters
This morning, I finished my float and went over and turned on the heater… without putting the heating element back in the tank… I was at my computer when I heard a weird popping sound — the heating element was melting the plastic basket that holds the heating element while I’m floating. But that was […]
Water Sterilization – let me count the ways
A recent thread spurred me to catalog all the ways that float tank water can be sterilized. So let’s do it:
Adding a rigid top to the ragtop DIY tank?
This post represents some first musings about the possibility of adding a rigid top to the ragtop DIY tank. NOTE WELL: even though the pictures below show the styrofoam on top of the tarp, if you were to build this, then you would put the tarp on top of the styrofoam. The next thing to […]
Noteworthy Aquarium Supply Stores
Barbara Cherington’s DIY Float Tank
Man, do I miss the yahoogroups floattalk archive. I should’ve kept my yahoo account with all my emails to all those people. Oh well, anyway, Barbara Cherington (of Massachusetts) was happy with her tank. Let’s work through the 4 photos I have of her tank to see what she did: Styrofoam door and ceiling.. Looks […]
Choosing a pump
If your UV is triggered by a certain amount of pressure, then your pump must be matched to it. If this is not a concern, then the following links may be of use: Pump recommendations : r/FloatTank (reddit.com)
It’s a pond! It’s a pool! It’s an aquarium! It’s a jacuzzi!
When building a DIY tank, there are many others lines of business that can help.
How powerful does a pump for a DIY float tank have to be?
For a home setup you don’t need a high powered filtration, but you should use either a magnetic drive pump or mechanical pump that can maintain roughly 20 gallons per minute (45-80 GPM for commercial setups). Generally 110v 1/8HP is enough to stir the water, (I’ve used as low as 3/32nd HP and as high […]