DIY Float Tank (wordpress.com) used a Spa Pak ($900) to passively heat the water between floats.
DFT used a tidalwave bluewave pump
DIY Float Tank (wordpress.com) used a Tidalwave Blue wave pump from https://bluewaveproducts.com/
Report Card for Das’ Super Thin Build
This is the first attempt to make use of the DIY Tank Report card to assess a build. Das holz posted an initial design and then suggested repurposing a portable bathtub. This report card will assess the usability of the portable bathtub in an objective fashion. Tank Heating and Temperature Control Pumping Water via the […]
DIY Tank Report Card
Here are all the aspects of a DIY tank that need to be assessed that I’m aware of: Room that the Tank will be in Tank Heating and Temperature Control Pumping Water via the Spa Pack Sanitization via the Spa Pack purification approaches Cost how much to build this bad boy? Summary Assessment
ryanmake’s diy float tank
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.
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 […]