Fish tank in the wall

[sunnygym]

Just wanted to know if anyone has a fish tank built into the wall(so u can see through one room into the other) and how difficult it was to do, any pics would be great. i think it looks fantastic when its done well but only ever seen a couple.

[tenohfive]

Do some digging on this site:

http://www.fishforums.net/

I've seen a post on there with an example, looks best when its a decent size tank (6ft or more long.) Doesn't look so great from the other side, but if you know what you're doing (and can afford to lose 2 or 3 feet out of your floor space) it looks stunning. And you can look at putting in doors/sliding panels to hide the ugly side (the sump, cables etc.)

Looks great when done properly.

[sunnygym]

cheers for that, dont really want to hide one side maybe have one end hidden with the filter and skimmer etc

[Roan]

Grand Designs Killearn Loch House

About 4 minutes in.

Apparently it exploded when they were on holiday though

[robsartain]

I know someone who did this and finished the job before he realised he had no way of feeding the fish

[tenohfive]

sunnygym said:

cheers for that, dont really want to hide one side maybe have one end hidden with the filter and skimmer etc

I'm not quite getting what you're thinking of. In the ones I've seen before, one side is the display side (in the example I'm thinking of, the living room) and the other the back of the tank. On the display side all you see is the tank, which is flush with the wall. On the back side is where theres access to feed fish, sort filtration etc. If it were down to me I'd have some sort of panelling in place so that the tanks only visible from the display side, and I'd build walls around it.

The Grand Designs tank looks good, but its not great for the fish and they'll probably experience a higher mortality rate. Reason being that fish prefer to only have one side open - having a background on the back of the tank helps them feel more secure. Without that (or a well aquascaped layout to create a few very secluded area) the fish are likely to be slightly more stressed, and things which otherwise would just have stressed them out may end up killing them. In my experience, anyhow.